Sep 28, 2015
This happened to us Saturday Sept 28th. I was out for the day doing something for work and was having trouble communicating. When I last spoke to my husband the call dropped. A couple of hours later he received the call. Because no one could communicate with me he did what he was told and they took us for all we had.
They called with the story that I was in an accident and had hit someone on a motorcycle. Supposedly the brother of the person I hit had pistol whipped me and they had taken me. He had two options. Send all the money he could come up with and they would leave me at the nearest hospital, if he didn't I'd be dead. Oddly enough I've been really sick and I'm in need of surgery so my husband couldn't think straight. He sent the money, waited at the nearest florida hospital as he was told. He was looking for me when I called him that I was home. He reported it to the cops but our money was already gone.
I've been trying to trace the number and find out anything I could, but there are a lot of dead ends. I wonder if anyone else who's been scammed had a recent stay at a hospital. From what I've found online that seems to be the only common thread, and the story they use of course.