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‘Bored’ Grandma Turns The Tables On Phone Scammer
My momma or grandma would know through the grapevine that I was in trouble real quick!!!
Good on her
Granny get your scammer granny is a scammer catcher…Salute too you Granny ☎🏆🚔
You go girl!!! ❤️
And I hope many more scammers will go down and face the consequences!
Unbelievable. What is wrong with these people?
What a boss!
Yeah great what she did but now they know where she lives.
Pos, same happened to my granda, luckily she called me
Oh so criminals are targeting simple minded elderly republicans.
congrats to the real one, we have two fake grannies right here on youtube who help stop scammers ….shout out to Edna and Vivian!
If your not getting a call from a automated machine stating you have a call from your local County jail then it’s b.s. they will tell you on the phone his bail or his situation unless he’s a minor
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nice job
Also, make sure the customer service number you call is creditable. And not just the first number that comes up when you search 😔 scammers also like to impersonate established businesses
Grandma got it!
I love these stories. Scammers need to find something productive to do with their PATHETIC lives.
Way to go ma’am people who prey on the elderly are despicable and need plenty of jail time
Well done! These people are scum preying on and bullying elderly people. She should watch Kitboga 😁
Thats awesome. She rocks!!!!
YEESSS!!!! 👏👏👏👏
Good for her!
ImaImagine if Americans were scamming the IRS out of a 4.1 billion dollars. It would be the biggest investigation we have ever seen and people would be thrown in Jail and the government would throw out the jail and the key. You would never be seen again. But they do nothing to these scammers, which many are criminal organizations with staff.
South Park did an episode raising awareness to this issue years ago. They’re very relevant.
You mean there was justice? That’s rare these days.
I love how mama just casually walks out on the phone and leans on her railing while the police are “rock bottoming” dude lol
HAHAHA!!! This lady is my new hero. Seeing the cops tackle him made my day.
Great job Grandma!!! And thank-you NBC for putting this schmuck’s mug shot up on national TV for EVERYONE to see!!!
Love this story. Way to go Grandma.
She is the cool grandma out here. She scammed a scammer. What is more cooler than that?
Good Job Gramma!!!😂
and she just casually strolls out……
My hero! I’ve started messing with these scammers, wasting their time.
I would love to see more of these types of stories. This was awesome
What a Woman!!!
“haha we need others to do our job haha”
Good. So tired of these losers doing this.
Get them I’m tired of them being on the phones being on your text messages answer machines with the band together and get all of them good job now I feel better cuz no matter how many times you delete them how many times you report them to better Business how many times blocked him they always get through and I’m sick of them all of them every last one of them I’m tired and no one is doing anything about it get them grandma get them thank God for Grandma
Complaining never gets completed you delete them they come back from text messages blasting your number on a Google page where there’s hundreds of phone numbers telling you why nothing ever gets done if people from the higher up would respond to the ones in the text message the phone numbers that are on Google I tried writing down all phone number texts and reported them nothing better Business nothing got done thank you Grandma for getting them cuz I can’t take it anymore myself there’s got to be another way cuz they’re getting millions and I’m tired and every single day on a text a phone call all over the place never getting caught or never a ending to the scams
Good for you 👏
Annd chances are this guys already out of jail and onto his next victim. His criminal record makes it difficult for him to get meaningful work. They should just lock him up and toss the keys. No place for predators trying to take advantage of the vulnerable
The only way this would’ve been better is if one of the cops was dressed like Negan and had Lucille in his hands
Scammers are smarter then this. They have 3 layers of people. They have a person who’s a supervisor, then they have mules who pick up the money and or packages. Then they use Airbnb for temporary addresses. This makes it harder for the scammer to get arressted.
This guy could only be a mule.
I hate scammers
First red flag is a surname of Gomez.
This will be a great story for her to tell the grandkids, I bet right now they’re saying she’s the coolest Grandma ever
She was brave, but still not a wise idea to have given your home address
I needed this after knowing all too well what getting scammed and taken advantage of in this manner feels like. It’s stressful and was left with nothing, couldn’t pay my rent – it was terrible and it hurt a lot that someone would do something so despicable.
Thank you for making him look like the fool he really is, but I pray he gets himself straight before he scams the wrong person, at the wrong place, at the wrong time. He’s lucky he didn’t end up with a bullet in his back or in both his knee caps. I pray for people like this, and to them I say you can do better because you know better. Learn from this!
Awesome 👌
💀💀💀 the way she was just watching while he was being tackled 😂😭😭😭
I had a call like this I told him too tell Him too spread Them Cheeks lol
That grandma is a SAVAGE!!! 😂😂😂🤜🔥🔥🔥
Great job grandma 👏👏👏
This was as money mule situation. That money was going to Nigeria.
I got a call like that once upon a time about my grandson. What the scammer didn’t know was I had just talked to my grandson. I very quietly and calmly told him what he could do to himself. They don’t expect that kind of language from little old grannies! Lol
The officer tackled that man for no reason. Get his name and badge number and use him and the county
The next generation of seniors are gonna be bitter af coming from today’s society. Good luck scamming this lot.
Scumbuckets!!
https://youtu.be/aqDTh6pAes0
That’s awesome, she did an incredible job! Unfortunately, the guy the police took down is very unlikely to be the person she talked to on the phone. In almost all cases, this guy is just a money mule, hired by the scammers overseas through ads on Facebook etc to pick up packages for them, and might not even know he’s part of a scam operation.
Yayyyy
Grandma Jean could be in those old Thug Life compilations just chillin on the step
Good for her for having The Police there to catch That Scammer!! We have laws and Scammers don’t care about The laws!! Good job Lady!! 🙏
Have that Woman work Undercover with The Police and Chris Hansen to Catch these Scammers!!
Good for her great job good job by her and the police
The guy will be out quickly and doing it again. No doubt about it.
She’s calling all the shots! Not the scammers.
I need Jim Browning to see this. This is awesome.
Smart Grandma sweet❤
That was wonderful the best take down ever
She is the real life Kitboga.
Granda Edna yup you are right.
You go girl!!!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Keep it comming. We need good news like that way more often.
Lol she’s my hero.
So….did anything happen to this crook? Two months probation?
So he know where she lives now? 🤦🏽♂️
Don’t mess with that grandma right now 👍
Not the hero we deserve, but the one we need.
just quietly snuff them & move on
Grandma is a G!🥺 Absolutely want to embody her vibe!🔥
Probably that guy who was arrested could be one of those money mule individuals who collect the money from the elders and transfer the money in cash via exchange companies to scammers abroad. If he starts talking and give out the names of the scammers abroad he could probably get lighter sentence if he co-operate with state and federal officials.
Good job. These scammers are out of control.
She puts the G in grandma.
I am convinced that medicare sells our information. I am not old, but as soon as i was put on medicare (i am disabled) i started getting these scams too. Been getting scammer calls ever since.
I loved these stories, scanner call all the time and they get the innocent, great job👍💯🙋♀️
This dude was only a paid money mule to do the dirty work of the real scammer. Grandma did not catch the bad guy.
lmao what jail? Dude came out in 4 hours on D.A.T. (desk appearance ticket) lmaooo that’s the BLM – Democrat Laws for you hahhahahaha
Oh Grandma You did it!
Faces.
Ooooo this was almost as satisfying as ASMR! Gotta love a good grandma!
Everyone should do this!
And of course it’s a latino.
America was such a nicer place before mass immigration from south america ruined the country.
Why aren’t they cracking down on the scammers more?
Nice work!
I memorized “your mother has s3x with goats” in Hindi, and the number of scam calls I get has dropped considerably.
When I was work somebody came up and ask me do we have 300 dollar gift card for app. She was carrying for old lady so the lady told me somebody told her they going to low her bills down then I said it’s a scam and I ask the lady to call her . When she did I told her don’t do it they are scamming u. Her aid was saying I was telling her that.
She should get an emmy.
White privilege right here at work