My mother and the attack of the conmen.

There should be the death penal for anyone trying to con an elderly person out of money in my opinion.

My mother received a call a few weeks ago that she own a 149 dollars for an extension of a magazine subscription that she does indeed subscribe to and she needed to give them a credit card number or her banking information at once or they would turn it over to a collection agency.

She is 89 years old but she know better then to give out banking information on a cold call for any reason and so she stated that she does not think that she own them any money but send a bill by US mail along with some proof that she own them money and she would look at it.

They got a little nasty and she hung up.

Checking with that Magazine subscribe department she found she does not own any money and when I was visiting her she got another call over the holiday weekend that was upsetting her over the same issue.

I got on the phone and told the man where to go and hung up and the asshole recalled and stated that her account would be turn over to a collection agency.

I told him to feel free to turn it over to anyone but she is not going to pay a bill that she does not owe and she surely is not going to turn over a credit card number or banking info over the phone and hung up once more.

Looking forward to see if these conmen will drop it as a bad investment or if someone claiming to be a collection agency will call.

Told her to just demand a name and a mailing address and a phone number for this “collection agency” if she does get such a call and not to get upset.

Damn shames that some conmen can buy a mailing list and then used it to try to embezzle funds from people they assume are defenseless.