Never Wire Money to Canadian Mounties
An elderly Carroll Gardens woman recently fell for the old "your grandson's in trouble" con, but this one had a clever Canadian twist. A man identifying himself as "Constable Karl Moore from the Canadian Police Department" telephoned a woman at her home on Henry Street Friday morning with some bad news: her grandson "had gotten into trouble with the law" during a trip to the north country.
But if she could wire $1,714 through Western Europe, his fines would be paid and he'd be released from the clean, polite Canadian prison system! So she rushed to his rescue and sent the money. Of course, then she started thinking, and decided to call her daughter to inquire about the grandson. "He’s in school — he’s not in Canada," said her daughter, the Brooklyn Paper reports. The lesson in all this is that if you ever run out of money and scruples, you can always pick up the phone and keep dialing random numbers until you find a trusting old woman to scam. We've nothing more to add, really, except maybe a little Dudley Do-Right video, below.
