Victim Location 33472
Total money lost $8,500
Type of a scam Family/Friend Emergency
Someone identified himself as my nephew to my elderly father, stating he was in jail in Mexico and needed to be bailed out. He and an accomplice contacted my father multiple times over a period of 5 days and entreated my dad to buy $9500 of OneVanilla cards. He read the numbers to them over the phone. When we contacted OneVanilla they refunded $500 which hadn’t been redeemed yet, and one of the cards was not activated, so we are supposed to be getting that money back, too. We disputed the remainder (17 cards with $500 each) but were told "since the money was giving willingly," we would not get back any of that money. I contacted CVS – there had been multiple transactions. If they have an elderly person buying multiple prepaid cards in Florida, they should inquire why. They might have been able to avert this entire disaster.