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The original was posted on /r/scams by /u/machomanmorton on 2025-07-12 18:22:33+00:00.

So I got a call from my uncle asking if I was in jail and I said “No I’m at work”. He then explained me that someone called my grandma pretending to be me, asking her for 5 grand to bail me out. My whole family starts freaking out calling me worried I was in jail (which I was not).

Normally, my grandma isn’t that vulnerable (she didn’t give them the money Thank God) but she said the dude sounded exactly like me so she thought it was real. I called him myself and the number that called her ((800) 3five4-6989) pretending to be my uncle and that I had money to bail me out. He greeted my as “Mr. Goodman” with an American accent. So cruel people would to this to elders.