I was scamed by someone calling himself John Freeman located at 18 elm st  Hamilton,Ontario in Canada . He called me back using several phone numbers all in the 438 area code in Canada. He claimed he was an attorney and his paralegal secretary, Melissa Ouellet, was authorized to pick up money to bring to the courthouse before a judge to free my daughter out of jail after a car accident at Niagara Falls. They told me she was in a car accident after having taken too much medicine & given a DWI/DUI. We had to wire money to cover the charges & promise not to return to Canada. He even had a woman call & pretend to be my daughter (with a sick/horse voice). She sounded extremely scared with only 3 minutes to speak. She said she needed help right away, and for me to call this attorney & he would tell me what I needed to do to get her out of jail. Upon speaking to "John" in one of several conversations, he stated my daughter would otherwise spend 9mo in a Canadian jail (we live in the US) if we did not wire $978 + $84 to cover the cost of the wire transfer charges, for a total of $1,062. I tried frantically to get a hold of my daughter but her cell was going straight to voice mail.I thought it was off due to her being held in jail, so at that point, I wired the money right away, panicked that my daughter would spend months in jail in a strange country.  They try to get to know you & you to get to know them on the phone. Talking about things such as his wife being pregnant & needing to find watermelon for her. These guys are very slick & sick in the head. They then called back & asked for another $900. I still couldn't reach my daughter & so I was going to send it but Western Union then had it on file that it was a scam from others reporting it within the 2 days between my trips to the western union wire post.

Western Union has information regarding this as well. I hope posting this may help someone else that may be on the fence wondering if this may or may not be a scam.

Below are the list of numbers he called from (throw away phones I am sure) as well as some I found online through others posting the same/similar scenario.

438-994-6069
438-990-7789
438-993-9704
514-295-9399  
971-220-1771  
910-509-5008


**********************Western Union stated to call your local Attorney General, Western Union Representative, as well as the FBI to report any & all phone and/or internet scams as well as any related to Postal Money Orders, Checks in the mail, Craigslist, or the "Work at home cashing checks & wiring money" scams.**********************