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Re: Letter to Editor Daily Home

The fact is there is a reporting mechanism with the FTC. I have used it and given all details several times including the phone number making the call and describing the voice M/F old, young, accent etc. Guess what? They can follow up on the number, don't know if they do. However the bad guys just get another number. Same with the "Hey Grandpa"scam. I play with them a bit until I tell them I don't have any grand sons who call me grandpa, they hangup. But it is amazing how many "old" folks get hooked with that one. We have had several women(widows) here in our community go to the local supermarket which sells gift cards for just about every American enterprise from which a purchase of merchandise or food can be made, and buy 100's and 1,000's of dollars worth of gift cards to send to the thugs. Most have been able to recover the money but it happens every day.

Horace