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April 2, 2025 12 mins
Scammers have reached new heights
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sally and the jam In Morning Show with DJ fourn
It's Sad Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Bustin's number one for hip hop jam In ninety four
or five. Hi, everybody, good morning. I think this is
our We do this about once or twice a month.
I feel like it pops up where we do our
very healthy, stay vigilant.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
The scammers are scamming.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
On such new profound levels. It's like things I've never
seen before. They are certainly attacking the boomers because the
boomers are just it's it's too easy again.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
My dad could get a text message that says.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
HI, you've won seven thousand dollars to accept click here,
and he'll be like, Buddy, I clicked, I won seven.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
He actually like it's that easy to get them.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
I feel like they know that with us, they're gonna
have to do a little bit more work, so they're
they're and every time we talk about this six one,
seven nine, somebody calls me with a crazy scamming story.
The last time we talked about this, do you remember
what happened? The woman called us. She went through interview
processes on Zoom.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
She saw them. They gave her their job.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
They said, give us your bank account infos we can
set up your direct deposit and they stole all our money.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
I do yeah, like levels.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I feel like the newest one that we've I think
foreign and I you both we both got this text
was the easy pass.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
And the funny thing is that it comes from I
just got one yesterday. It came from Anthony at like
floraldirect dot com and it said, oh, you're about to
you're driving privileges about to be I'm like, Anthony stopped.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, they the one they love is and again remember
they're sending this to seven hundred thousand people.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
They just it's a game of numbers and one or
two clicks.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
I often get the one where it's like your package
was undeliverable.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Click here to reroute the package.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
That's it happens right as you're about to get a package.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, son, you're like directly involved in one right now.
Not you, but they're using Santi's vacation property to scam people.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
So my wife got an email from a lady asking
if we are renting out our property for the summer
because they don't know if this is a scam or not.
So my wife responded to her and come to find
out there's a guy named Philip Klein, it's obviously a
fake name, using our address and trying to get people
to book our house for like different weeks in the summer,

(02:33):
and you're gonna pay a deposit. We even went, we
got the Lisa agreement from the lady.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I was she's probably lowballing the price.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Is what he's doing is he's getting the deposit. That's
how he's making money. He gets a deposit for the week.
You're all step for the week. Here's a Lisa agreement.
And then the guy just disappeared.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, what's the price that he's right?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think the deposits like seven hundred bucks. So if
you do it enough times right, so the way he's.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Doing it, even if you get them once.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, it's not bad to.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
You have a point though.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
It's all the boomers because this lady, this lady's mom
was posting on the well's main Facebook page asking for homes. Hey,
does anybody have a home that's available for him this week?
So this guy saw it responded to her instead of
going right to air, Airbnb or the other one. You
know what I mean, they're posting.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
And not directly through him.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Now, if you think about it, this guy probably did
it to like forty properties up there, has all these
things ready to go, and probably just made different ones.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Think about it.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
If he did it to forty people and he got
even two, that's a quick fourteen hundred dollars for literally
doing nothing.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
I mean, you got Yeah, you have to invest a
little bit of time.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now here's the crazy thing. I know, at some point
this summer, I'm going to get a phone call from
somebody saying, Hey, this woman just pulled up and she's
saying she's staying here. I'm gonna have to go up
there and explain to her that it was a scam
and get into that whole thing, right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Because you don't know how many other people. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I have no idea, and like most people would probably
check him, like hey, I haven't heard from you, like
what's happening. But there are going to be people who
are going to just pull up to the house and
like vacation time, and there's gonna be another family there.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
It really is, and you have to hold true to it.
If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Just a couple months ago, I was on Facebook Marketplace,
and I love Anthropology. Anthropology they have a home section,
and I love some of their decor.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Specifically, they're mirrors.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
So I'm constantly going on the website looking at the mirrors,
checking the prices, see if anything's gone on sale.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Well, I go on to Facebook Marketplace.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm like, let me just put like Anthropology dupe mirror,
see if anybody in the area has any that kind
of looks similar, because they're huge. Mediate mirror pops up
and I'm like, oh my god, that's the actual Anthropology one.
And let's throw out a number. Say the actual mirror
is seven hundred dollars. It was one hundred dollars on
Facebook Marketplace, and I thought.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Maybe I found the diamond in the rough.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Maybe this guy just wants to unload this thing because
he's tired. So we start going back and forth, and
he tells me that he stages homes, and you know,
he had three of these for the home he was staged.
The owners don't want them, they're trying to get it too.
It made so much sense to me. I tried to

(05:08):
pay him and Facebook.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
Said this doesn't feel wrong.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Facebook saved me from my own stupidity. Because who's gonna
sell a seven hundred dollars meal for one hundred dollars
a stage one a stager.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Wood Maybe Yeah, I just the thing that hurts so
bad is when you fall from it. You feel so
stupid because it was so obvious.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
I wanted to slap myself because it had.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
My mother called me and she told me that she
did that on Facebook Marketplace. I would have been so med. No,
that was the last time I really almost got got
got and thank god they Facebook was like, no, we're
not accepting this payment.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
Something seems off because I tried to pay.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
TikTok too has been doing it with all these products
that are super cheap. Why one time bought a dirt
bike that never came for one hundred and fifty bucks.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
It was probably pocket sized.

Speaker 5 (05:58):
Came.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Sure you get the famous one with me.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Remember when I bought the quote hockey jersey and I
made it and it was custom and all that. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Now there's a new one where they someone will post
and be like, yo, my father passed away. We're getting
rid of his estate and hear all the things that
were listening. They'll list wash us cars, all this stuff. Right,
they're selling a twenty twenty pickup truck for like two
thousand dollars. They'll sell a Honda with like eighty k miles.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Would you think to yourself again like I did, I'm
the diamond in the road, Like how did I find ye?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
And it's always like these, like a seventy inch TV
for two hundred. They're just trying to liquidate everything. And
then he's gone this weekend and you start hitting them
up and you're like, wait a minute, I'm gonna tell
you how you catch a scam, especially on Facebook or
Instagram or whatever. Facebook, if the pictures are grainy, like
if they're not sharp and clear, they even have a
little bit of pixelation, usually as a face.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
And for I, you were to answering the phones, but
I said it like it's the age old saying, and
it really rings true.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
If it looks too good to be true, Yeah it is,
but you want it to be.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
You want to think you're the one, is it? Nelly Nellie?
Nelly's in Lowell Nellie.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
The Facebook marketplace has gotten us all at this point,
I feel like.

Speaker 5 (07:18):
No, seriously, so, like I was calling fourn like when
I was twenty, I was young like looking for a
place for my new son. I was pregnant, and I
went to a Facebook marketplace like I know better now,
but there's a beautiful house like in Lowell, like four bedroom,
nice duna basement and everything, And so I contacted the
guy and he was like, well, we're looking for a place.

(07:40):
I mean, we're trying to sell the place because my
parents don't want to completely get rid of it. But
you can like rent it out, but you can pass
by we're not home, you can come looking in the windows,
and I'm vulnerable. Like I'm like, okay, so.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, you're pregnant, but you're like I need a place
to stay exactly.

Speaker 5 (07:57):
So I'm like looking in the windows, nice backyard. I'm
already this whole vision of my kids playing in the backyard.
So like I contact more. But then I'm like this
is kind of stuff. Like they literally send us the
lease and everything, but like the least was kind of
written up weird, and then they're texting me like with
grammatical error.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
So I'm like, let me standout.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
Yeah yeah, So like I'm like, let me like do
more research. So I found a realistre that had that
house also, but it said sold and I'm like, let
me contact the realtor and he's like, yeah, I know,
this house is not for sale. Like we keep getting
phone calls about this. I'm like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Thank god you went the extra mile and did your research,
you know.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Yeah, Like I didn't want to put like waist side
deposit or anything. That would have been so bad, like
ruining my future for my kids. But thank god it
was smart enough to do more research. Wow.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
Did you end up finding a place off Facebook Marketplace
or did you go a completely different route?

Speaker 4 (08:53):
No?

Speaker 5 (08:53):
I feel like the villow thing and we found like
a great guy. Like at first he was like no pets,
but I'm like, can you meet our press? And he
loved them and it was actually another four bedroom Like good,
it was good.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Good, good, all right, I love it.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I didn't even thank you for the call.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I didn't even think about that people trying to do
rentals on Facebook Marketplace. But can I also say, you
really can find some good stuff on Facebook marketplace.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Facebook Marketplace isn't all bad.

Speaker 4 (09:19):
You just can't fall for the first thing that you're like,
this is a good price. If it's a good price,
you better dig deep and find out exactly what's going on.
Try to try to do your due diligence, because again
I look at the pictures. Now that's how I tell
I just say a grating picture like that wash is
not twenty dollars bro Now.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
One thing, one thing I will add into just for
precautionary safety, because I bet you there's somebody listening right now.
That's like, I've never even thought to go on Facebook
marketplace to look for things.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
Especially for baby stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like you can find a lot of things because sometimes
you are really just trying to get rid of it.
But never be home alone when you do an exchange
off Facebook marketplace, like, be smart about it. When we
were moving from Dorchester to Marshfield, we did sell a
lot of stuff on Facebook Marketplace and I would only
do setup times or meet, you know, when the fireman

(10:07):
was home, because you you guys could be a legit
murderer being like, yeah, I'll come buy your kitchen table.
You don't know the people that did come by our
kitchen table. It was a nice couple, but I remember
thinking like the man didn't speak, so the woman was
speaking to me, she was checking things out, but the
man just stood there in the doorway and said nothing, and.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
I loved myself. Thank God, the part of man is home.
Because what is this like? Why hello weird?

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Did he not have a tongue?

Speaker 2 (10:39):
He never spoke, couldn't say it, couldn't he could be tongueless.
I don't know, but he we But this is what
I'm saying. You don't know what I've Also I've also
bought stuff off Facebook marketplace where like, for instance, I
bought I wanted to get Nanny Helen car seats and
for the for Daisy's car seat.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
You just need the base.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
The thing is like one hundred, one hundred and fifty
dollars online. A woman close to me Marshall was like,
you can have it for thirty bucks. She left it
outside on her porch. I've been more to a thirty
and like super easy done. But you just don't know.
You gotta be careful. Don't say oh yeah, I'll meet
you at ABC and just go there.

Speaker 4 (11:21):
What dog and listen, do not do not give your
address until that person is literally like minutes away. I agree,
you know what I mean, Like, don't oh, here's my address,
come see me in a week now, be like yo,
I'll give you That's what I've been doing lately because
I'm selling a bunch of stuff called the Crab. And
I'm like, as soon as you take this exit, as
soon as you're on that exit, hit me up and
I'll give you the address.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Yeah, you have to be like super smart about it,
you do, because you just don't know who you're dealing with.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
So if they don't have tongues, you could be dealing
with a tongueless man.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Probably he was just standing in the doorway and again
the fireman looks at me and goes, well, are we
selling stuff? Faithbook Parker, Like you wanted thirty bucks for this, Like,
what are you doing
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