New con in town

@DrEdwi (49)
October 5, 2017 2:09am CST
All cons have one thing in common. They prey on emotions be it greed or fear. The recent trick in town is that conmen will call parents and claim your child had an accident at school and that the child has been taken to the hospital. When you insist the child the conmen will claim that he is in pain. Naturally as a parent you will be dead worried. The intention of the conmen is to get you emotionally worn out. Later they will tell you to send money because he has internal bleeding and needs to be rushed to the operation room. All this while your phone calls to the school won't go through. Be careful people are getting clever on getting your hard earned money.
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7 responses
• Japan
5 Oct 17
Japan has an interesting way of dealing with this kind of phone scam. They announce all over the town, for days on end, on loudspeakers about the kind of scam and what to do about it. This makes it so nobody believes the scammers and they have to give up.
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• India
5 Oct 17
Good thinking
@aureliah (24340)
• Kenya
5 Oct 17
You are lucky. Where I come from, only victims talk about it.
@responsiveme (22932)
• India
5 Oct 17
Thanks for warning
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@aureliah (24340)
• Kenya
5 Oct 17
There are many of them only that people don't speak out
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
5 Oct 17
This wouldn't be successful in Germany and other European countries as you NEVER pay cash before an operation. You get a bill when you're back home and send the money from your bank account to the bank account of the hospital.
5 Oct 17
This is so disturbing, i hope people who do this stop and get a life and a good and decent way of living.
• Nairobi, Kenya
5 Oct 17
The example you have given is a trick that can work. I never thought someone could scam people using this tactic. I know any parent can fall for this
• Mombasa, Kenya
5 Oct 17
In short you don't fall a prey to the talons of the scammers.watch out
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@aureliah (24340)
• Kenya
5 Oct 17
Yeah which I believe helps a lot of people
@aureliah (24340)
• Kenya
5 Oct 17
They will go to hell. They have become very smart