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We didn mean that grandson We met your other grandson The other one yes No I only have one And so all right so your grandson upstairs Did you, what'd you say to this phony baloney deputy? Well, you know, by me being a part of the aging network, and I do a lot of stuff in the community, and I'm also on the scam squad. I knew it was a scam, so I'm just trying to get his name and number, just tell him, well, there's no way that I can just give you that information off hand. Let me get the money together so I can call you back so I can make sure that this happened. Did he give you a phone number? No, he would not give me that. Wow. He said, we need to take care of this right now. Right. And I was like, come on, you go call me for five grand and I can't call you back. I don't have five grand. You know what I'm saying? Oh, hold on. Here you go. Let me send you this right quick. No, I need your information so I can call you back so I can get the money together. And did he do it? He did not. So he just hung up? No. Oh, no. Oh, no, no, no. This is my time to have fun. All right. How did you have fun? Yeah, what did you do? I just simply said, if it was me and I was calling somebody getting scammed, I would have hung up on me. Because I was like, how dare you try to scam me? Oh, you called him out for scamming. Oh, yeah. I said, you are a terrible person. You know, how could you do this to somebody? You know what I'm saying? He said, well, I got to make a list. I said, no, no, no. It's nothing that can come good from what you're doing. Wait a minute. So he tried to argue that the scam he was trying to play with you should have been acceptable? Because it was just a job. Because it was a job and he was trying to take care of his family. Did you figure out where he was located? I could not because it came up as an Ohio number. Come on. They spool numbers. So I know that that's not true either. I just was wondering if he sounded like he was from one of those compounds, like in Miramar or something like that. I have no idea. I mean, he sounded like he was a real American. I see. I know he wasn from my area that for sure Wait a minute So he didn have an accent or anything He sounded like he was No he did not He did not have an accent at all So that could be from one of the camps So did you, when you told him that, you know, his mother would not be proud of him for doing this, did he respond with anything other than, this is just a job for me? He basically said, well, you don't understand. It's hard out here. I said, no, what I know is that you could never be blessed. You can never get a blessing by hurting somebody else. and you ought to be ashamed of yourself. How long were you on the phone with him for? We was on the phone for about a good, at least a good five minutes. Wow. Oh, this happened fast. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Did you ever get to the point where he was going to tell you how you were going to pay? Did he want Venmo or, you know, Google Play gift cards? He said, what is the one? Zell. Zell. Oh, Zell. Zell. Well, you know, maybe, maybe in the back of his mind right now, he's remembering this, right? He's remembering this thinking like, you know, maybe I shouldn't be a scammer. Maybe I shouldn't do this. You know what? Just talking to Krista, it reminds me of when, I don't know if I ever told you this, but I was sitting with my mom in her living room and her phone rang and she would always answer people on speakerphone. Okay. So this guy comes on and goes, is this Virginia? And she's like, yes, you know. And he said, you know, I just want to let you know that I've hacked into your computer and I've stolen all of your account details, your username, all your passwords. And without flinching, she says, so you have all my passwords? And he said, yes, I do. And she said, let me get a pen and paper. 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