Social Security Scam Robs Elderly By Convincing Them They Are Dead (Video)

Turborama

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Sat Nov-27-10 12:55 PM
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Social Security Scam Robs Elderly By Convincing Them They Are Dead (Video)

A new scam preys on the elderly by informing them they have died and instructing them to reroute their social security checks to the "Department of the Dead."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0AbCOjFg

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applegrove

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Sun Nov-28-10 12:29 AM
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1. My grandmother, at 100, spent a whole afternoon thinking she was dead.

Edited on Sun Nov-28-10 12:30 AM by applegrove

The whole family was at a reunion out of town. She got her health care aid to call all of us and could not get us (somehow having a health care aid didn't dissuade her from thinking she was dead and she didn't want to upset said aid I think so she didn't mention that she thought she was dead). She was blind and bedridden and almost deaf. She finally got a great aunt of mine on the phone and when told we were all at the reunion said "I'm Alive! I'm Alive. I'm Alive!"

So I could see how this scam could work. The elderly often can't see or hear so they can't reality test and they wake up from a dream and get confused. What cruelty.

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Hannah Bell

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Sun Nov-28-10 12:38 AM
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2. if they're dead, how are they able to reroute their SS checks?

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LisaL

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Sun Nov-28-10 12:41 AM
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3. It's the onion.

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Hannah Bell

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Sun Nov-28-10 01:00 AM
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4. well, there you go.

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