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There have been reports in the Spokane area about a MoneyGram scam. The scam works like this:
A woman receives a call from a man saying he is her Grandson. She answered the phone and the man said, "Grandma?" she replied "Yes,". He tells her that he was up in Calgary Canada for a friend's wedding and after a few drinks had been in a car accident in his rental car.
He said there were $3,100 in charges and he would need to pay them before he came home and that the judge said it wouldn't go on his record but he needed to pay the charges. The man asks the woman if she could send him the money right away. She goes to her financial institution, withdraws the money and proceeds to visit Walmart to purchase a MoneyGram. These were the instructions from her "Grandson." She sends a MoneyGram and is given a reference number. The WalMart associate explains that her grandson would need to provide two pieces of identification along with his social security number to pick up the money.
Her Grandson explained that he would be calling her back and as soon as she and her son returned home, her phone rang again. She gives her "Grandson" the reference number and he says he'd call back in two hours to let her know that he got it.
Two hours go by and she never hears from him. She calls her Grandson at his home phone number and the real grandson answers. They call the police and discover the money was received in Montreal, Canada 15 minutes after the reference number was provided.
The real Grandson was not missing any identification at all.
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