Timeline for Is “I’m Mike” scam a popular metonym of "grandparent" scam?
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| May 12, 2014 at 9:07 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| May 12, 2014 at 4:23 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | I don’t either believe the cons use personal names such as Mike, Tom, and Jon. It’s silly for swindlers to use such a specific name, because the phone will be cut off on the instant it’s found a wrong name by the grandparent. So Japanese swindlers say "It's me, mom." I was very skeptical about the Asahi’s statement. | |
| May 12, 2014 at 3:40 | comment | added | Third News | english.stackexchange.com/questions/169403/… They do not use a name but just "grandma" or grandpa" and then wait for the elderly person to use their grandchild's name | |
| May 12, 2014 at 3:10 | history | answered | RyeɃreḁd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |