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Scam Artists Targeting Grandparents
Posted Thursday, June 25, 2009 ; 12:35 PM | View Comments | Post Comment
Scammers are posing as grandchildren and asking for money.

CHARLESTON -- There's a new scam spreading across West Virginia targeting grandparents.

The State Attorney General's office announced Thursday that in the scam con artists pose as grandchildren and ask their "grandparents" to wire money to them.

Hazel Lilly of Hurricane was the victim of such a scam. She says the person posed as her grandson even sounded like him and asked her to wire money to Canada to bail him out of jail.

We'll have more on the scam and how you can protect yourself coming up this evening on 13news at 6.

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Mountie
7/1/09 at 10:25 AM		 Report Abuse
Some sophisticated scammers can obtain personal data from places like MySpace, Facebook and others to use in these scams. Once someone uses real names and places it rapidly becomes more believeable. Jeff I guess you have no children or someone one that loves you that may fall for this. I assume you do have parents, or at least a mother that you know of that may care.
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Jeff
6/25/09 at 3:20 PM		 Report Abuse
ya gotta be pretty stupid to fall for this....
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