What Really Happens When Your Kids’ Friends Take Over the House? You Won’t Believe the Stories!
We have shared lots of links to these types of stories with our adult kids so they’ll know what to watch out for. I’m sure many of you know people who have been scammed in this way as well. In the worlds of attorney James M. Walsh, “The online world has turned into a cesspool.” Our adult kids know to NEVER send a potential mate money. EVER. Especially if they’ve only “met” that person online.
Sadly, many people who are scammed are too embarrassed to come forward to the police or anybody else. Your elderly parent could be on a computer (or their phone) right now getting duped, and having their bank account drained. Two of my friends (and a guy who contacted me last week) were almost tricked by the fake “police department” phone call, saying there was a warrant out for their arrest and that they had to pay (always in the thousands) to make the problem go away. A friend of mine received a phone call that used AI to make it sound like the voice of his granddaughter, saying she was in jail, and needed bail money wired right away. If that happened to me, I’d know it wasn’t one of my kids. I told them from an early age, “If you ever get arrested, do NOT call me. Call a bail bondsman. We can talk about it after you get out. All of our kids are adults and none of them has been arrested for anything.
