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Phone Scam - Family member/auto accident/bond Reports & Reviews (1)

- Norwalk, CT, USA • Mar 09, 2024
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My mother received a phone call at 9:00 this morning (3/8/24), from a woman claiming to be my sister (i.e, her daughter), in almost intelligible tears and sobbing, saying she had been in a car accident, and that a lawyer was going to call her. A man then called, saying he was a public defender, and that my sister had been in a car accident, had hit another person who was in bad shape. He said he had taken out a bond for $5000 for her, and that the woman she had hit, named Ingrid Wilson, was pregnant, and the steering wheel had hit her belly, and was in danger of losing the fetus. If that happened, he said, she could go to jail for manslaughter. My mother, who is 96 years old, was very disturbed by this, and called me, asking me to find out what happened, because she could not understand what the man wanted. At 9:30 I called him at 914-540-7557, and asked his name. He said Thomas Anderson, and he was a public defender. He said that he had taken out a bond for $5000, but we needed to send him the money in cash immediately. (red flag #1). I asked where my sister was, and he said 'in jail, but she's going to be released and sent home.' "Where is her car?" I asked, and he seemed irritated that I would be concerned about a car when two people's lives were being discussed. He said that I could use PayPal, or go to my bank, and he'd give me instructions how to send it (red flag #2) I said can I give cash to a person? no way I am sending cash to someone I can't see or talk to. I said there were scams going around and I couldn't do it without some proof of this being real. He said he'd get my sister to call me. I looked up his name as public defender, and this came up on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-anderson-3b0946163/ - before I could really read through it, the phone rang and a woman on the other end, sobbing uncontrollably said she was my sister, and that she was in a car accident, and she had broken her nose and her mouth had 4 stitches. She sounded as though she had an hispanic accent under all the sobbing. I asked her "what was the name of our dog, when we were growing up?" - - and the person hung up on me.

My mother was justifiably rattled by all this, and has been terrified that she doesn't know who these people are or why they would do such a thing. I had warned her about scams against old people, which is why she called me in the first place, but she never would have thought that it was anything but a legitimate call. Both callers had hispanic accents, which I thought odd from my sister and someone named Thomas Anderson, but it was evident that this was a scam that was trying to cheat my mother out of $5000.

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