it happened to my mother in law also they used my wifes name as thier relative.saying they were from mexico and that they knew us. total scam glad i found this it explains a lot

My mom and I both got a call from this number. Some guy claiming to be a relative. My guess is he's goin down the line in the phonebook becuz he called me then immediately called my mom right after. He was speaking Spanish. What can be done?

I received this call. It was a guy asking for my dad claiming to be his nephew. He wanted me to guess who he was and I told him I didn't remember any cousins and he kept insisting me to throw away names. I asked him where he was from and he told me from Mexico, I asked what part and he just said Mexico. Since he couldn't get info from me he hung up.

The FTC warns about the family emergency scam here http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt111.pdf 
Report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG, as appropriate.

me to it happened this guy called claming he was a felative that was comming and was about to cross the border