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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 18 April 2014 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)33. AHA! So THAT'S what the scammer who called my sister was up to
Sis was asked to send bail money for niece picked up on DUI in California....via a Walmart money transfer, BECAUSE the bail had to be cash....
... it was a total scam. Niece wasn't even in the county where the call originated, let alone in jail. Fortunately, I was able to talk Sis out of panic and prevent any such thing from occurring. Niece is too sweet a girl to do any such thing, anyway. We aren't even sure she's old enough to drink legally...
Our site manager says he gets calls all the time from "residents" asking him to bail them out...as if!
It's a sad sad world, when the NSA is sitting there, trolling the public communications system for blackmail material, and it can't even stop a scam like this....or pay any attention to it.
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