QUINCY (CBS) – Quincy police are lauding a good Samaritan who helped save an elderly woman from being scammed out of thousands of dollars in what the police are calling a “textbook grandparent scam.”
Police said Yellow Cab driver Richard Spencer picked up an 87-year-old woman who wanted to go to Walmart. She said she needed to buy gift cards for her grandson who was in trouble.
“I said excuse me ma’am, but that is not your grandson,” Spencer said. “It’s someone posing. And the police officers confirmed that to her that she was being scammed.”
Instead of Walmart, he brought her to the Quincy Police Station.
What a guy! A lot of people wouldn't have gone to the trouble, but he did. As he put it:
“I think it’s one of the scummiest crimes you can do,” Spencer said. “It just goes to show what scumbags they are, they’re too lazy to go out and steal like a real criminal, they go scam people on the phone.”
