12-21-2022, 02:55 PM
My 89 year old mother sent a $200 Amazon card to a friend by email and mistyped the email address by 1 character. She unfortunately sent the scratch off code. The recipient, being a scumbag by random luck, emailed back she needed $400 in additional codes and somehow convinced my mom to send them, thinking it was her friend responding
My sister, who is a retired large city homicide Sargent happened to swing by at that moment and contacted Amazon who stopped the $400 transfer, however the original $200 was lost. I love my little sister, but I wouldn't ever describe her as warm and nice. At least she got the scammers email info, and unfortunately, after scaring the crap out of the scammers and making them abandon their email address, there's not much she could do to them. Amazon just sort of cares, the original card with the $200 code had been tossed, so it is a lesson learned.
My mother is financially comfortable, so thankfully her pride was the only lasting damage, but what kind of dumb luck is that? She now completely understands virtual gift cards and is embarrassed, Ironically, if the scammers were so destitute that they needed to steal $200 to survive, she would have given them $300 and a hug. And she would have meant it.
My sister, who is a retired large city homicide Sargent happened to swing by at that moment and contacted Amazon who stopped the $400 transfer, however the original $200 was lost. I love my little sister, but I wouldn't ever describe her as warm and nice. At least she got the scammers email info, and unfortunately, after scaring the crap out of the scammers and making them abandon their email address, there's not much she could do to them. Amazon just sort of cares, the original card with the $200 code had been tossed, so it is a lesson learned.
My mother is financially comfortable, so thankfully her pride was the only lasting damage, but what kind of dumb luck is that? She now completely understands virtual gift cards and is embarrassed, Ironically, if the scammers were so destitute that they needed to steal $200 to survive, she would have given them $300 and a hug. And she would have meant it.