I need help yall. Some dirt bag is tryn to extort my 75 year old mother. They took a picture of her driveway and demanded her to pay them 2000 dollars. They sent it email. Is there a way to help the cops track them down?
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Did they threaten her? What does the picture of the driveway have to do with it? Could just be a screenshot taken from Google Streetview.
This is a total scam that has been spreading.
What’s the scam? They threaten you to pay them for asphalt on your driveway?
$2k for a picture of her driveway?
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Exactly. Gotta be more to the story. Can’t imagine someone worrying over just that.
how did they get email address
yea for $2k they can take a picture of my driveway and i’ll throw the house in for free.
On a serious note what I generally do with an email like that is block the sender and report as spam. That usually does the trick. And it wouldnt hurt to put a security cam on the front of the house.
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yep just block it easy solution
Agree. Play dumb to get their info. Set a trap. If it works, great.
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theres hundreds of these cons about they rely on you responding so dont
Contact the Police and give them the details. Most large police departments have cyber crime devision and yes in most headers of e:mails you can get details that might help, but that’s unlikely with any sophisticated seniors scams.
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very true, its the same as an unknown caller. If you dont answer they have no idea if a real person is on the other side…if you answer and hang up…let the games begin.
as for pic of drive can be got from google maps
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But if you do nothing, they keep trying the con on more people. You can ignore and it helps you, but… the crime continues. Kind of summing up a universal problem with the world.
Contact the police and let their experts do the work.
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will be some call centre in india or similar countrys good luck with that
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There’s email involved. Info in the headers.
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Let’s be real there’s literally hundreds of thousands of these scams. My Gmail SPAM filter catches at least 1/2 a dozen of these a day. Just delete and do not respond and please! Contact the police? They won’t do Jack Chit! Most of these scams are designed to get the person to respond to the email and the scammer get’s paid from an advertiser who knows it’s a real person on the other end. It’s called pay for clicks
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Of course, but the guy came here and asked for help for his mother. Ignoring questions or problems is not an answer, but it is the common reaction nowdays. We don’t even KNOW what the real problem is, the guy didn’t give us enough of the story to go on.