It pays to inject a bit of paranoia in your kids…or else they’ll be handing everything to swindlers.
“In a complaint to the Quezon City police, Marissa Cathelineau, 53, of Camarin Road, Caloocan City, said a woman phoned her teenage daughter at home to say her mother urgently needed money for hospitalization,” reports the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The call came on Wednesday, Jan 22.
So, Cathelineau’s daughter gathered cash and jewelry, including three diamond-studded rings, a gold bracelet, 10 gold pendants and gold earrings. All in all, the value of the haul was PHP1.6 million.
The report revealed that the girl “was instructed to hand them over to a woman waiting for her around 1:30pm at a bus stop outside Robinson’s Mall in Barangay Pasong Putik, Fairview.”
When the girl got home, she saw Cathelineau and that was when she realized she had been scammed. Cathelineau’s daughter described the woman she met at the bus stop as “chubby” and sporting long blond hair.”
We just have to ask: Didn’t the kid think it was strange that she wasn’t immediately brought to the hospital her mom was supposedly in?
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