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One of the easiest way to send money is through the post office’s MoneyGram service. In order for the scams to work, the victims need to be able to send money. An empty office greets the police, while somewhere else in Canada the scammers keep calling. When police, usually the RCMP, try to close in on the scammers, the boiler room has moved to a new location. Factor in that many seniors have hearing-loss issues and it becomes even easier. With the grandson or granddaughter on the phone for such a short time, while talking in a distraught fashion, it can be hard for a grandparent to tell if it’s really their grandchild. Scammers surf these sites until they find a victim.”Īfter researching the mark, scammers then use online directories like 411.ca to locate the grandparent’s phone number and contact is made. “People think they’re secure and just sharing information with their friends and they put up too much information. “It’s social media,” Constable Boyd explained. They know their ages, where they live and go to school, their hobbies and more. One of the reasons why these scammers are able to so successfully target grandparents is because they seem to know personal details about the grandchild.

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They install phones, register a formal-looking 1-800 number, set up an answering machine and get to work.” “They set up what are called ‘boiler rooms,’ an office space where they operate for about a month. “These guys are hard to catch,” Constable Boyd noted. According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (once known as Phone Busters), the revenue from these two scams is as lucrative as the drug trade, while being much safer for those running the scam. The grandparent scam and the computer scam-where someone phones claiming to be from Microsoft or a computer repair company and attempts to gain access to the household computer-are the two biggest scams out there today. They’re putting such a sense of fear and urgency behind the pleas that these grandparents rush off to help, without double-checking.” “They know these people have money, because they’ve saved their entire lives. “What is so despicable is that they’re playing on the emotions of the senior,” he said. The grandparent scam is one of the most prevalent and lucrative phone scams out there, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Constable and Community Officer Al Boyd explained. When grandma phones, she finds out she had a near miss-her grandson is at work, not in jail. The Manitowaning grandmother, who asked The Expositor to not use her name, is saved by the staff at the Little Current post office who recognize the scam and tell her to make sure her grandson isn’t at home.

In a few minutes, they’re on the line, sobbing about being in jail to another vulnerable grandparent. In only 15 minutes on the phone, a scammer almost made $900. Unable to bear the thought of her grandson in jail, grandma rushes off to the post office to send out money, only to find out the office in Manitowaning can’t help her. “How did he get down there?” The lawyer explains her grandson was in a car accident following a wedding.

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