Text I just received: "Hi grandpa. I'm okay but a little stunned. I missed a turn and hit the curb then a parked car. My

[Floyd R. Turbo]

phone won’t turn on so call me here at xxx xxx xxxx.”

Unless my daughter has been keeping something from me, I don’t have any grandchildren!

[Ritabert]

1. That's an old scam implying your children or grandchildren are involved in an accident

Don't answer it and delete it. They usually want a gift card.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. I'm a little short right now from trying to help my friend The Most Royal Prince Mbebinotabi get his multi billion

dollar inheritance!

[Ritabert]

10. LOL!

[JoseBalow]

18. Nigerian Prince problems

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. It has been updated with AI voices so beware of extra trickiness. . . . nt

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Bastards! 🤬

[Ritabert]

12. Thanks for the tip.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Could be a scam, someone after your credit card info -- these are fairly common.

Most grandparents don't see their grandkids often enough to recognize them for certain, so scammers send messages like "Grandpa help it's an emergency and I can't reach Mom and Dad if I don't put up bail money they're gonna throw me in jail".

They only have to fool one person occasionally to make it pay off.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Bastards! 🤬

[viva la]

3. I got one saying it was my brother and he needed bail money--

He'd been arrested in Poland.

LOL. He was pretty surprised to hear that when I called him to check.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Bastards! 🤬

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. Kinda reminds me

of when I went to get my first mobile phone about 30 years ago and found out I was dead.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. 😱

[HappyH]

13. That is kinda a weird feeling.

Some years ago I got a letter from a major insurance company wanting to know if I was dead, and if I was, who should they send the life insurance money to. Turned out that my mom had taken out a policy on me at birth, which was not an uncommon thing back in the 1950s. And thanks Mom, I was able to borrow some money against the policy to help pay for my daughter’s college bills.

[MiHale]

14. I 'won' 5 million dollars in a text the other day...

The yacht company wasn’t impressed…darn!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. Bastards!🤬

[Midnight Writer]

15. Thank God your grandchild wasn't hurt!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. Thing is, I don't have any!

[Ptah]

19. Sorry, I gave her your number by mistake.

Where did she say she is?
I need to help her, again.
She can be a pain.
Again, I'm sorry, Floyd.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Very shortly you will be visited by an individual with a very particular set of skills. Tell it to him.

[womanofthehills]

21. When I get those calls they use my grandsons name

I figure they get it off of Facebook.

Last caller who said he was my grandson had an extreme NY accent. We live in NM. The caller says - “Hello Grandma- this is your grandson _____.
Big clue as my Grandson always just says Hi Grandma. Plus, I rarely answer the phone for I number I don’t recognize.

The caller hung up when I asked why he was talking with a NY accent.

My “grandson “ is always stuck in Mexico.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 😊