Dec 18, 2013
Received a call from someone who said he was my "favorite grandson", after some conversation I thought that he was one of my grandsons at Ohio State University. His story was that he was riding with a 3 boys and their car was pulled over and searched drugs were found. He did pass a drug test and would be released on payment of $3,000 bail. He turned me over a policeman named Matthew Cooper who gave me the following instructions for payment $3000 bail:
I was to purchase from either Wal-Mart or a CVS pharmacy six $500 "Money packs", then phone him a the above niumber with the serial numbers of the money packs. and then my grandson would be released and I would receive a check by FedEx within 48 hours for the $3000 refund.
Of course it was necessary for me to withdraw cash from the bank, I don't have that kind of cash laying around. I told officer Coop[er that would take me about an hour to accomplish all this.
Seemed very suspicious to me that police or court system would operate this way. I called the number back just to see if it was a police department and the person answered and said "police station", strange that they did not state their name.
I talked to my bank manager stated that it was probably a scam. Now that I see the number was Canadian there is no doubt!
I finally reported the information to my local police office who confirm that there were other similar reports in this area here in Maryland.