Name: Beaver Island community circulates warning about a grandparent phone scam, 2016
Start: 2016-10-11
End: 2016-10-11
Location: Beaver Island

Beaver Island community circulates warning about a grandparent phone scam, 2016

Also Beaver Island grandson car-accident phone scam October 2016

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TypeEvent

Date2016-10-11

WithinBeaver Island

ErasModern era

Event

Date: 2016-10-11
Kind: Public safety warning
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: public-safetycommunicationcommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On October 11, 2016, a Beaver Island forum participant circulated a warning about a reported “grandparent” phone scam in which a caller claimed to be a grandson involved in a car accident.

Evidence limits

This is a second-hand community report. It preserves the warning but does not verify the caller’s identity, the caller’s intent, or any related investigation.

Sources

“Phone scam warning,” Beaver Island Forum, October 11, 2016.
A forum participant relayed an island resident’s report of a caller claiming to be a grandson involved in a car accident and seeking money. The report is second-hand and no police, carrier, or financial record is preserved; it documents a community warning, not a verified criminal investigation.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010938

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island community circulates warning about a grandparent phone scam, 2016”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-grandparent-phone-scam-warning-2016/, accessed [date], citing “Phone scam warning,” Beaver Island Forum, October 11, 2016..

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