FarNorth
I wonder why she chose to believe the original caller and not everyone else, including the police.
Judging by what happened to an elderly neighbour (massive ‘lottery’ scam, around £100k down the drain) these bastard thieves can be extremely clever at being so incredibly nice and friendly towards their victims, and urging them not to listen to anyone else, who will only be jealous, wanting to stop them gaining an advantage, etc.
One thing I learned from that episode, was that these evil people have ‘suckers’ lists’, i.e. lists of people likely to be naive and easily conned. List are apparently compiled and sold on.
In our neighbour’s case (she had never used the internet) she had long been addicted to those Wordsearch ‘competitions’, where you very conveniently phone in all your details at God knows how much per minute.
Perfect scam fodder, IMO.
The person (female) who initially drew her in on the phone, said she was from NatWest Bank. By the time we knew what was going on, the scammers had established such a ‘warm and friendly’ rapport with her, she refused absolutely to believe that they were just heartless criminals, relieving her of her money. ?