So today I received a call from my mother asking me if I had

>>18014675
>Happy to provide more info if needed.
More info and pictures of your phone and of the green house and animal room please.

it's a junkie scam.
they call saying it's a grand kid telling them
to send money or come get them then they rob
them.

>>18014684
Botanist?

Op that's a pretty common scam actually. Especially to the elderly or to particularly vulnerable targets such as naive stay at home housewives or migrants who don't speak the language. My mom told me it used to happen all the time.

>be mom, housewife who doesn't speak English that well
>doing housewife shit like cooking and cleaning
>phone rings
>"hello, this is XY and Z I'm good friends with your husband, your husband wanted me to call you he's been in a car accident. Hes in the hospital and needs 500 dollars to pay the doctor. If you can meet us at the parking lot of the super market with the money well drive you there. Look for the blue pickup truck"
>hang up
>call uncle
>uncle calls dad's work
>dad's fine
>warn everybody at church about it on Sunday
>several other women had the same experience luckily nobody fell for it

>>18014701
It seems similar but they all say I called them to come to my house what's the point in that?

>>18014701
Additionally since my parents were immigrants other twists on the scam went like this
>hello aunty? This is *obscure relative second cousin twice removed, on you're aunt (insert common name such as Maria) side of the family*
>I'm at the border, the smugglers brought me across the border as promised but now they are demanding 1500 or they're going to kill me and dump me in the desert can you come bring me money?

>>18014719
They know where you live man that's not good

>>18014741
I don't need a silver knife to kill s junkie right?