I have a cousin who is extremely liberal who fell victim to that scheme. I think she lost $400.00.
She received an e-mail, allegedly from my brother's wife claiming they needed $400.00 right now and it was to be in the form of Gift Cards from Walmart or something like that. She tried to call my sister-in-law, but she and my brother were not available so my cousin went on and bought the gift cards doing whatever the scammer told her to do.
A couple of weeks later, my cousin called my sister-in-law and said she needed her $400.00 returned. My SIL was dumbfounded and had no idea what my cousin was saying and told her she knew nothing about any e-mails asking for "400.00 Gift cards." My cousin thought my SIL and brother were trying to rip her off and she hung up on my SIL.
Now my brother and SIL are very, very well off which my cousin should have known, but my cousin, who thinks she's smarter than Al Einstein, could not admit she'd been scammed. Being scammed on the Internet just can't happen to a super intelligent left liberal, can it?
I think my cousin believes my brother and SIL still owe her $400.00
L.W.
