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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School mom is on her way to Gucci to buy a tote bag with OP daughter’s money.

OP’s daughter should definitely file a police report and let school mom and her admin know a police report is incoming.[/quote]

More likely she's betting big on the ponies or getting high at OP's kid's expense.

My mother and my step-father both -- separately -- fell for phone scams. My stepfather truly believed he was paying the taxes on the big screen TV he won using Visa gift cards. My mother ended up wire transferring $50,000 to some woman in China to "reimburse" Amazon.  :roll:

Those of you who think this only happens to stupid people do not know how incredibly convincing these scammers can be. I hope you never find out.[/quote]

I don't know that I would have used the word stupid but there is no way any reasonably savvy person wires 50K to someone in China to reimburse Amazon.  Reimburse them for what???  And how does any functioning adult think that anyone pays taxes on anything with gift cards???  Are these older relatives of yours suffering from dementia?[/quote]

Like I said, until you're in the grip of these scammers, you have no idea how convincing they can be.

This is like the people who say they could never, ever forget their kid is in the back seat. Until they do.[/quote]

This is just something people tell themselves to make themselves feel better about being so gullible.[/quote]

Victim blaming is never a good look. [/quote]

Then stop with the "it can happen to you!". No, unless I start losing my marbles which is why preying on the elderly for these is heinous. But for a fully functional adult, just own that if you fall for the scam you were duped, should have known better, and won't let it happen again.[/quote]

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