I believe seniors are most vulnerable. My poor father would talk to marketing companies for as long as they wanted. The only good thing was that he always talked to me before anyone received money...even family members.

I almost got taken by one of these last year only they were in London and they had be robbed. I was ready to help out when my youngest daughter called and I told her that dad's old sec. was in need of money. She said,STOP this is a scam stopped my DH at the bank from withdrawling $600 . So they go for smaller amounts too. I reported to the local police and then to the web site for reporting this type of scam. Since I had the person on the line I told them nice try but that they had been reported. And I asked them the question How do you live with yourselves? Keep a watchful eye. I would think that a family or friend in trouble would contact a family member who know that they are traveling.

I have seen that someone else has also received this and not to tell anyone! Scary thing!! Glad you didn't get taken!!!

It probably wouldn't hurt to contact the local new station consumer reporter and bring it to their attention.

This happened to me and my computer guru told me to change my password. He said usually that's all we have to do. I did and the kinky stuff stopped coming from me. Don't open anything from yourself unless you sent it to yourself. froggyintexas

That happened to friends of mine a year ago.

My daughter had this happen to her a few months ago - she was supposedly in London and needed money to get home. My husband also got a check for $24,000 from an outfit that said they were doing a survey of Western Union's customer service. They wanted him to deposit the check in his checking account, wire $19,000 to them, and keep the $500 left over. It's so sad to think that there are such awful people out there - and that really nice people get caught in these traps!

My son's grandmother-in-law, she is 90 yrs old has received a similar phone call that he was in England and had had an accident and needed a certain amount of money sent right then so he could come home. Fortunately her daughter-in-law was finally able to get her to say why she needed to do this. Oh by the way she did withdraw the money and went to Wal-Mart to have the money sent. Then her daughter-in-law finally got the truth from her and they went back to Wal*Mart the next day and they were holding the money until Monday because they had heard of this type of scam. Unfortunately a year later she received another call and instructions to take the money to another money carrier and she talked her new maid, who did not speak or understand English well to take her and she lost about a thousand dollars. Her phone number has since been changed and I am hoping it will not happen again. She will be 91 in January and still lives on her own in her own home. No longer drives but otherwise does everything else on her own.

What a scam, & how sad people have to resort to this kind of thing...........

Scam. everyone be careful