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Hey, tabtab. I have a friend at a national news organization working on a story about robocalls and looking to interview people who've been affected by them. Yo
by catacombs 8y ago
Hey, tabtab. I have a friend at a national news organization working on a story about robocalls and looking to interview people who've been affected by them. Your story is shocking. Do you have an email address I could pass to him?
- tabtab 8y agoUnfortunately, my dad's mental state and eyes have degraded so much that he cannot use email anymore. Is a phone interview okay? I can ask him if he wants to talk about it. He had been too embarrassed to talk about it before, but time may have changed that. It is indeed a crazy story. The scammers told him if he went to police or tried to contact the direct family of the nephew, it would blow the entire cover of the fix-by-bribery get-out-of-jail method. He was instructed to go to Target to buy gift cards. Later, Target was uncooperative in providing details, such as security camera coverage of those cashing in the gift cards on the other "side". The cards are numbered such that I'm sure they have logs and/or accounting records of when and where they were cashed in. They could have used that to narrow down which security camera footage to review. Maybe investigating Target gift-card scams is an avenue for you. Target confessed is had happened to others.
- catacombs 8y agoI'm sorry to hear that. I don't want to speak for my friend, but I would assume a phone call would be fine. Do you have an email in which he could contact you?