Pat Walsh, a 78-year-old resident of the Canals District, said she recently received a call from an unknown number. According to Walsh, the caller claimed to be a Calgary police officer by the name of Cst. Davis, who told her that her grandson was in “big trouble” and needed to be sent a considerable amount of bail money.
An Airdrie senior is warning her peers to be on the lookout after she was the recent subject of an unsuccessful scam attempt.
Pat Walsh, a 78-year-old resident of the Canals District, said she recently received a call from an unknown number. According to Walsh, the caller claimed to be a Calgary police officer by the name of Cst. Davis, who told her that her grandson was in “big trouble” and needed to be sent a considerable amount of bail money.
Walsh said the caller was adamant that she was not to tell anyone about the exchange, and that she was told to go to her bank, withdraw $12,000, then go to FedEx and send the money in a brown envelope to a Quebec address.
“I knew this was a scam – I wasn’t going to pay them any money,” Walsh said. “It just didn’t seem real.”
While she quickly determined the caller was not who he claimed to be, Walsh said the scammer nonetheless sounded persuasive, and he referenced both her name and her address.
“They sound pretty convincing, but when you really listen to them, there are some holes in their story,” said Walsh, who said she fell victim to a scam a few years ago and knew…
