They didn’t count on her cunning: a grandmother who was going to be a victim of a scam ended up deceiving the thieves | #LomásTrinado

A 73-year-old grandmother managed to evade a scam thanks to the skills she acquired during her time as a police 911 operator in the United States. The thieves tried to trick her into a call, but the deceived ended up being them.

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This is how Jean remembers the man who tried to steal $8,000 from her over the phone. “I got pulled over for drunk driving, Grandma,” was what she was told on the other end of the line.

A suspicious call that, in addition, had an element that did not fit.

“Start calling me ‘grandma’ then say ‘I don’t have a grandson who drives’ so I knew it was a scam”, declared the woman.

As soon as he detected the lie, he played along with it. thief with multiple calls in which he spoke to several people and, in one of the conversations, the woman set a trap.

“I told him I had the money in the house and I thought he wasn’t going to fall for it, but, well, he fell in love with that hook.Jean added.

A tempting answer for the criminal, but that did not have a small detail: his victim is a woman experienced in crime, since she was an operator of the 911 emergency line.

The criminals fell round and one of them, posing as a finance agent, came to Jean’s house to pick up the envelope that he thought was the $8,000, but was actually full of kitchen towels.

Seconds later, Police captured the 28-year-old subject. It was a robbery modality that Jean was saved from, but it was a bittersweet victory for her.

“I felt like I caught it, but a lot of people fall for this and you only find out on the other side, following they’ve lost their money,” the former 911 operator said.

Jean hopes her testimony will prevent future scams, which, according to US authorities, have spread once morest older adults.