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Seniors targeted by scammers
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Be cautious when approached Kevin Mills Mission Record
A pair of scams directed at seniors have been reported in the Mission area. One involves a young woman asking for help for her sick baby, while the other involves the bogus sale of freshly caught fish. Last week a Mission senior answered a knock on her door early in the morning and discovered a young, upset-looking woman standing on the doorstep. The visitor said she had locked herself out her house and needed to use the phone to contact her sister, who was watching her sick baby. “I thought, ‘Oh, that poor baby, that poor mom,’ so I said to her, come on in,” said the Mission senior, who asked that her identity not be revealed. Once the stranger was inside, she made several calls on the homeowner’s phone. She eventually told the senior that her dad was coming from Chilliwack to bring her a spare set of keys. Being a kind-hearted host, the senior allowed the woman to wait in her home. That’s when the story changed. “She proceeded to tell me that she had a prescription for
her baby, who was very sick, and it was $86 but she didn’t have any money on her to pick up the prescription because her purse was locked in her house.” That’s when she asked the senior to lend her some cash. “I kind of looked at her and thought, something’s going on here, something’s wrong.” Although she had money in the house, the senior declined to give the stranger any, suggesting she take her child to the Mission Hospital. The young women then asked for a ride to a house in the downtown area. The senior woman’s husband agreed to drop the stranger off. While she is fortunate that she didn’t lose any money in the incident, the senior wants other people to be aware of the danger. After calling some friends and neighbours, the senior discovered that the young woman had told a similar story to others. “I hear she targets houses that have cars with veteran’s licence plates on it,” said the upset senior. “I let her in my house. I’m so stupid but, I mean, she had the gift of the gab and I was feeling
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