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New York grandmother tricks would-be scammer in trap captured on video

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A Lengthy Island, New York grandmother is being hailed for establishing and serving to seize a suspected scammer in a entice that was all caught on video.

The 73-year-old former 911 dispatcher Jean Ebbert acquired an odd name this week from a person claiming to be her grandson who was in jail for DUI and wanted $8,000, Ebbert informed Fox & Mates on Saturday.

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Ebbert says she knew that she didn’t have a grandson who was sufficiently old to drive and knew it was a rip-off however determined to maintain taking part in alongside anyway regardless of her members of the family telling her to hold up.

“My son was like ‘grasp up ma’ and I’m considering you’re 40 years outdated I’m 73 and also you’re telling me to hold up?” Ebbert stated. “And I didn’t grasp up. I often grasp up.”

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Ebbert ultimately spoke to a different man on the telephone who claimed to be her grandson’s lawyer and requested to come back to the home to gather the bail cash. Jean informed the person to come back to the home to select up the cash but additionally referred to as the police to attend for the person when he arrived.

When the person confirmed up at Jean’s home, she handed him an empty envelope stuffed with paper towels earlier than officers swarmed him in an trade that was captured on her Ring doorbell digicam.

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The person was recognized as 28-year-old Joshua Estrella Gomez of Mineola, New York, who was arrested and charged with tried grand larceny within the third diploma.

“Communicate to your households. Communicate to your neighbors. Go to these which can be susceptible. Allow them to know, don’t pay attention to those scams,” Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder warned. “These people sit at dwelling and don’t have anything else to do however consider a strategy to make the most of our aged.”

Supply: Fox Information