Texas police officer STOPS elderly woman from sending $40,000 to scammer!
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- A North Texas police officer saved an elderly woman from becoming a victim of a scammer in another country and sending $40,000. Police in White Settlement say the alleged scammer was pretending to be a Chase Bank security employee. FOX's Peyton Yager reports on the story.
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When not minding your business pays off.
I never liked people who always want to tell others to mind their own business. Sometimes you NEED to get involved.
@@vxy357 uhhhhh no. Mind your OWN damn business weirdo. Unless it's a situation like this or a robbery or felony crime. Otherwise gtfo 🖕
It's called common sense.
@@jcjammer1 and what does that mean in todays society? If you are under 30, keep living and you will see common sense is not to common.
Nah, I still mind my own business 😅
That's probably all the money that poor old lady has to live on for the rest of her life. These dirty scammers prey on the vulnerable like her. The lady who tried to stop her and called 911 is a hero.
We need to cut the undersea cables that connect us to India.
unfortunately, there are many Indians that came through our southern border just the last four years doing this type of scams in person now, but instead of bitcoin, the scammer would convince the elderly person to convert the life savings into gold bars😢😢😢
Yeah and what about the dumb asses at the bank that let the lady withdraw thousands in cash - I bet nobody there tried to inquire as to what she was up to.
Real beekeeper
My mom has a landline, still. Her first name is clearly an old name, that puts a target on her from these thieving Indians.
Thanks to the wonderful woman who called the police and the cop who stopped her from losing all that money. I hope the woman has someone at home to prevent her from getting scammed again.
❤amazing ❤
That’s what I’d be worried about, she’s on their radar now and who knows what all information they’ve scammed out of her earlier! Thanks to that see something say something attitude of that customer! She’s angel! Glad the cop was able to stop her!
@@patroberts5449 You're right - once they get you to talk to them, they never let up. I had to get control of my parent's finances and limit their ability to spend/withdraw cash. They even read obituaries to get family names to call and pretend like your grandson needs bail money or is hurt.
@@blautens they are awful and relentless!
I appreciate that female Employee calling it in. 💯 🙏🏼
Did you not watch the clip?
It wasn't the employee..... it was a woman getting gas
@tabora_ yep & she was at the right place at the right time. 👍
It was not an employee.
I was in a bank one day to get some papers notarized and while I was waiting I noticed an elderly man talking on his cell phone with the volume turned way up. I could hear a man with a foreign accent telling him he could get either an I-tunes gift card or a Steam gift card and to be sure and load them with $1000 dollars. I went to the nearest employee and told them what I heard. When I left the bank the employee I had spoken with and the branch manager were talking with the old man. I sure hope they were able to convince him not to pay anyone with gift cards.
Thank you. You are a good person. The "gift card" scam is one of the big ones right now. Hopefully the bank employees convinced him not to go through with a purchase.
Good for you for doing something. Another scam was interrupted and hopefully stopped.
When I worked at Walmart a few years back, we would get these older people (50+) buying Steam gift cards like crazy.
Like hundreds of dollars of cards at a time. Some of the customers would always show up the same time every week or every other week like clockwork.
I would try so hard to get more information as to why they're buying so many (I really doubt they played PC games like that) and I would always get push back. One lady told me that she needed them bc she was in trouble.
These were poor working folk just handing whatever little money they had over to dirt bags.
It was frustrating to say the least.
Scammer payback needs this scammers info.
Jim browning and trilogy media too.
Hopefully they find that scammer & put him in prison for a very long time.
@@KevinRichards-my5oj They won't. The police in India are all in on it. People set up elaborate busts and give the local Indian police scam divisions all the evidence needed to convict, and they simply tip off the scammers to their up coming raids, and the places are empty by the time the cops arrive. India is 100% corrupt, from the floor to the ceiling.
Facts🙏🙏🙏🙏
@brandyroseann facts🙏
They live in India.
And, Pakistan too.
And Africa
And Chinese have big scaming industry.
and Nigeria
They pretty much always do come from India or Pakistan.
Thank God for this woman who called 911 and the officer
Show the guys face on TV,or the news so others could see if they got scam from that same man .
@@ramrajimccoon1552 Yes, very smart would help protect people
@@ramrajimccoon1552they have absolutely no idea who tf they're really talking to. You'll never see their faces, You'll never hear their real names.
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Of course... thank a cartoon character. Not the person that actually took action.
Yall are awesome for calling in and helping.
So thankful for the two heroes that looked out for that dear lady.
This makes my heart sink. I had to stop my aunt from being scammed several times. My aunt was a smart lady in her day, she retired from IBM but these scammers were slick. They had her convinced several different times. These people are disgusting.
A smart person would verify every angle of their interaction and be very scrutinizing.
Same - my mother was an accountant, but I've had to fight this battle for years before I finally took over her finances.
God bless the lady who noticed something not right and called police , I’m glad this elderly lady didn’t lose her money but I wonder if she’s given money beforehand
They will never ask someone to put money in a machine hopefully she isn’t targeted again 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Or buy gift cards.
@@Joomlahacks love how you bring orange man into this...i guess your voting the walking corpse great choice. mook
Well done officer.
That woman and that Officer are GOD SENDS. They saved that poor woman.
Thank you guys so very much 🙏... bless you all ❣️...
My husband is a retired cop of 31 years. In the last 10 years of duty I cant tell you how many people he was able to stop from doing this. One of tham was my own Aunt. They get super pissed lol. Scammers are garbage. I hope each one gets back 10 fold the hurt that they have caused other people
Me too!
The scammer is in New Delhi, India...
Thank you to everyone that helped this lady. Preying on anyone is awful, but to do it to an elderly lady is disgusting.
God bless Jordan for saving this elder and for not letting her click the submit button. This policeman handled this brilliantly too. I pray that God's justice be done to the scammer. 🙏
Saw something similar old man kinda confused on phone trying to get cash from ATM at circle K, young chick in very revealing clothes standing near by watching him. Told clerk loudly that I thought old guy was being scammed, chick bolted outside real quick getting on her phone, when a few of us went outside she jumped in her car hauled butt out if there. Old man wasn’t sure why but person he was talking to hung up, someone else told him he was probably being scammed.
Thank God...
What the hell is wrong with banks letting some elderly lady withdraw thousands in cash - pathetic.
It's her money. She could have been withdrawing it to pay cash for a car or some other expense. They don't know and it's illegal for them to ask about it.
@@danor6812 Lol it's not illegal to ask, they do it all the time...and sometimes withhold it
@@pepsico815 Withholding money just lends to news articles about racist or bigoted tellers not letting people their own money out. Unless her or her family sets a limit, there's nothing they can do.
Thank GOD for this wonderful police officer!! What an amazing angel, and thank GOD for this sweet lady who stepped in and who cared enough to intervene.
They need to find out if any family members are aware of her situation. It's obvious that she requires some sort of professional supervision. Poor thing. I'm glad that the customer and officer intervened.
That poor lady sounded so frightened. You could tell he was using intimidation on her. I'm glad someone saw and stepped in. Something similar happened to my grandmother years ago, but the family didn't find out until months later.
After watching TH-camrs like Kitboga for years, it never ceases to amaze me the lengths these scumbags will go to convince/bully a victim into doing what they want. I've seen people pretend to have a child dying in the hospital. The scammer STILL insists that they leave and go buy gift cards or withdraw money from the bank. Once saw a scambaiter fake a heart attack on the call and the scammer (a woman that time) told him to just sit down with a glass of water, relax, then head to the bank.
People need to either explain scams to elderly family members, or try to introduce them to a scambaiter they find entertaining, so they can learn what to look out for.
My brother saw a heated argument between a Walgreens checker and a woman customer trying to buy thousands in gift cards - the checker kept telling her she was being scammed and she knew all about it but the customer refused to believe it. Eventually the customer left but you can bet she went to another store.
GOD BLESS THE LADY THAT TOOK IT UPON HERSELF TO STOP THIS CRIME......& THE OFFICER💙☮️🙏
Grandma needs to be put in a home, and her phone needs to be switched back to a landline.
She does not need to 'be in a home' - I've worked in them. She needs a family member to have financial power over her money so that she cannot spend more than a reasonable amount. That way, she still has most of her independence, and her funds are safe.
@@lauriivey7801unless her family is a bunch of dirtbags and will just steal her money and misuse it.
@@willieverusethis My 86 year old dad gets scammer calls on his landline too.
😂😂😂😂
@@willieverusethis oh wow my comment got deleted lmao 😂
So glad there are people that are nosey enough to help this women. Thank you young lady and police for helping this older lady. As one become older in age they become more golob and are taken advantage of of. I’m glad there are people in this world that help there fellow humans. Kudos to this young lady
Unfortunately she will keep sending $$$ ... I know so many people who refuse to listen to you and send $$$ all the time. They get so mad when you try to stop them.
hopefully she's got some common sense.
I was getting irritated with her trying to argue with the cop!
They are just going to call her back in a week and do the same thing…
Thank goodness Ms Jordan cared enough to stop the elderly woman from throwing away her life savings on a despicable scam artist.
Scammers are the lowest of the low. Absolute vermin.
That female employee is wonderful! She did exactly the right thing to help a total stranger! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Praise God! Bless the caring customer and outstanding officer!
her family needs to look out for her, she shouldn't be living by herself if that's the case
there is a youtube channel called "scammer payback"... great channel. Crappy scammers
I listened to the entire call/exchange between the LEO & scammer. The guy was relentless. He was SO close to getting her money. The LEO was amazing. God bless all involved. 🇺🇲🙏🏼💞
Where is the full call posted?
@Zoomster-wu7if
It was on the channel PoliceActivity June 14th. 😊
@@Teri_B. Thank you 👍
@@Zoomster-wu7if
😊👍🏼 Did you listen to it? He's probably from Nigeria. 🤑💸🤢
I do hope that this lady gets a huge $$$ reward for saving this ladies life savings
They straight up trying the beekeeper movie scheme
We really need to teach the older generations about cyber crime and how to keep safe from it
There's a generational gap so they wouldn't associate this with a "cyber crime." It's a good idea for younger people with elderly parents to make sure to tell them never sign something, and never believe what you hear on the phone, no matter what they say or how threatening they are.
Heavens to Betsy! We older people know not to get into any of that cybur stuff, like using Paypal! But if a really concerned man has us read the numbers off of a plain old gift card, that's okay, right?
It stupifies me that ppl are still falling for this, regardless how old and vulnerable they are just no excuse imo
Some people are just so oblivious
Wow! Thank the Lord that lady was there to intervene. ♥️🙏🏻♥️ Talk about earth angels 😇
What a sweetheart that called 911
Thank God someone stopped this in time! 😊
Doesn’t she have kids ?? Who look out for her ?
There's a special place for people that do this to other people!
Wow.. kudos to the female who noticed something wrong and for the officer as well!!!!
How do elderly folks keep falling for this obvious BS?
The fact that your comment got any upvotes is absurd. A lot of things happen to you in your brain when you get old for a lot of people. That is why this happens. You think everything is fine now, but you may just wind up just like this woman someday. Have some empathy and stop blaming the victim here.
@@PowerNGlory Sympathy is not the lack of questioning and allowing the same pattern to happen over and over. These type of scans have been going on soooo long that they started before these elderly people were elderly. Let me say that once again, this pattern has persisted so long that nobody, and I mean nobody, should be falling for it anymore. Are you still answering emails from a Nigerian prince? Yes, ridicule is a mechanism to drive this understanding. Pandering is NOT. Now who is sympathetic?
Thank you to these two for stepping in. ❤❤
THANK YOU so much for helping her. There are good people in the world.
I think a lot of times that elderly want help, but they are afraid to ask.
Thank goodness 💜
I hope the cop followed up with her family. She's clearly in a vulnerable situation.
Brave and hero describes this officer as THE BEST!
So glad the lady said something when she saw was going on. She’s very alert. I feel bad for the poor elderly woman. These scammers are the worst.
I'm glad the police actually showed up to stop it for her. People need to be told not to give out money like this. If a bank or someone calls you. Verify them by calling the phone number on your bank cards. Ask them if what you're being told is true. People are still falling for that IRS scam as well. The IRS would never call you unless you call them and leave a call back number. The IRS will send you a letter to call them about a problem. Making you wait hours on hold when you do.
What an angel ❤ we gotta look out for the elderly, too many scammers trying to ruin them
That's good police! And good neighbors!
Hats off to these people who saved her.
If your bank security caller sounds like that,definitely a scammer!
This is why old people need to be watched. Dementia, scams, etc.
SSI should have a program for this.
Thank you officer ❤
When she said I'm in danger its Chase bank, my heart sank! No Mema. 😢 Thank goodness for that good citizen and officer.
This is why I waste the time of scammers. So they can’t use that time to scam poor ladies like her.
They’re going to call her back…sad!
Great job guys ❤
Thank God.
Don't forget to credit the young lady! If she had not acting quickly and called the police, the poor lady had been robbed blind. Thank you, young lady and thank you, police officer!
They go after people who are vulnerable and easily manipulated into believing their crap, glad it was stopped. There are videos of ethical hackers on TH-cam who go after these scammers too, we need more action against this type of crime.
OMG!!! God Bless that woman who called 911!!!! That was so scary!!!
Good for watching over this sweet old lady. They are very vulnerable adults please take care of them and if you have any elderly in your life advise them never to send anyone money without someone more tech savvy present like a family member or at a physical bank with workers present.
Thank god? God didn’t stop that naive old lady 😂
This happened to me a few years ago... got me for $1,400... i will never ever buy from Ebay again ✊🏾💯💯💯
Geez. That's crazy. Ebay has one of the best money back guarantee program out of all online retailers. Id get my money back 10 times over from ebay before an Amazon employee even thought of sending my money back.
Billy that sucks I feel for you dawg, someone jacked me for $600 before. Makes us all aware now, help our family and others avoid those bastards! I know fake money from real now also. Karma will get em dawg. 💪
@@BillyMack-eu1sw I got scammed on eBay too. They were selling one "lot of women's used clothing" for $60. Nothing ever arrived. eBay refunded my money. I won't buy from eBay anymore because of the potential of retail theft being fenced there.
@@hayleys1110 I'm gen z I felt so stupid at the time. I got scammed $900 way back in beginning of 2022 😢😪 part of the reason I switched majors to cybersecurity so I can help people and businesses. NEVER AGAIN!!!
Demons🤬
The money would not have been gone if the button was pushed. Once the cop was on scene and saw the deal, he could have seized the entire machine and the contents as evidence. She would have gotten it back, it just would have taken a tad longer.
this breaks my heart so much
It breaks my heart that there are total dirt bags out there that prey on the elderly like this.
Thank God the witness called 911 to help this woman.
Wow! That lady is a hero
Yes she is. She was at the right place at the right time.👍 If the scammer gets caught, he'll be Bubba's new boyfriend in the joint. 😂
Yes james! Thank you.❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank God ❤
That scammer will more likely be in the city of Noida, India.
Praise the Lord for all who helped
Why not just praise the people who helped. God didn’t send them. Free will babe, free will. He doesn’t interfere.
Hopefully her family and friends can help to keep better track of her transactions. This is sad. Thank goodness for the lady in the store that noticed what was taking place.
That's wonderful. These criminals are everywhere, and they will do anything. They're so clever and tricky and they get you in a panic. People should always ask someone they trust.
Kudos!! to the good Samaritan who observed what was going on and called the police. She's a hero in my opinion. There are times to butt in someone else's business and this was one of those times.
“Why did you redeem!!!!!!”
we need more people like this
God bless that woman and police officer! 🙏
THANK YOU LADY FOR STANDING UP FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE 😘❤️❤️❤️❤️
God will reward you for your actions 🌈
RIGHT TIME RIGHT PLACE ❤️🙏🏽
GOOD COP!!! Thank you MYNDI!!!
Wow what a story.
I hope this elderly lady’s family steps in to protect her financial situation. She is clearly vulnerable to scammers’ suggestion and threats.
“It is a cultures duty to take care of its elderly”
-Going in Style, 2017
My daughter got a call from "Charles Schwab". That's what her caller ID showed. Be careful folks. Any calls from your bank you should hang up and call them directly. And not at the number on the caller ID.
WOW look at that heat index.
At least she got protected this time.
Why does this only make news when police stop someone from doing this? Bank employees do the same thing every single day, especially for the elderly.
Thank you Jesus for the lady that reported this as well as all who took it seriously. 🙏 there is hope for us yet. May these people be forever blessed. 😊
Get that woman off of the streets and into congress!