美国电话诈骗花样百出却令人备感熟悉_BEC初级作文

美国电话诈骗花样百出却令人备感熟悉

Karen’s mother is now angry that her daughter has taken away her checkbook, since neither Karen nor the staff members have the time to sort through bags of mail each day. “Once you give money to one of these scams, the others seem to find you and the mail just increases,” said Karen, who now fears her mother is sending cash donations. But it was another incident — in which her mother nearly agreed to meet a man in a parking lot who claimed her grandson was in trouble and in need of $5,000 — that truly frightened my friend. (Fortunately, it was thwarted by her mother’s banker calling Karen with a head’s up that she had just requested a cashier’s check for an emergency.)

现在，凯伦的妈妈为女儿拿走支票簿而生气。因为凯伦和养老院的工作人员都没时间每天整理那一大堆的信件。“一旦某个诈骗团伙骗走了你的钱，其他团伙似乎就找到了你，信件就会不断增加，”凯伦说。现在她担心妈妈直接送现金捐款。不过这是另一桩事件：她妈妈差点同意和一个男人在停车场会面，后者声称她的外孙遇到了麻烦，需要5000美元。这真的吓坏了凯伦（幸运的是，这次诈骗被银行出纳员挫败了。这位出纳员给凯伦打电话，说她妈妈声称自己遇到了紧急情况，要求获得银行本票）。

My friend Fran’s mother, however, was not so lucky, and within a month lost $40,000 to a network of phone thieves, who told her she had won a contest with a large cash prize that would be deposited into her bank account once she gave them access. After giving them her bank and credit card account numbers, they then linked them to a PayPal account from which they proceeded to steal her money. It was only after they pirated her landline, which was then used to robocall their other victims around the world, that her children, now unable to reach her at home, discovered what was happening to their mother.