Originally Posted by quilterpurpledog

I am amazed at how many people are dishonest and try to scam people. We got 3 such calls just a couple of weeks ago. One was especially convincing because the caller had no accent, knew our name, knew our grandson's name, had chosen to use the name of an attorney in Reno, NV. He called to say our grandson was in jail on DUI and had been arrested after an accident in which a woman was injured and our grandson had broken nose and facial injuries from the airbag. He put someone on the phone who sounded injured and was too embarrassed to tell his father (our son). Please send $1800 by Western Union and told us how to word it to keep it off the public record. It was convincing! However, we called our son because we would never go behind the back on one of our children as they parent their children. We also noticed that the phone number we were given was from NY. Our son looked up the 'attorney'. Of course this was on Saturday. So he called our grandson's cell phone and he answered. Grandson, when asked what he was doing said he was at work. Our son went there and they called us. They long and short of it was that our grandson was pleased by all the concern-loving family. We would never bail out someone for bad behavior. But, it was convincing to start with because of all the personal knowledge. I might add that it was scary because of that very factor. Sad.