How sad. He can file a report with the police, show this to his bank, the bank will investigate and he should be able to recover some money due to fraud. If his daughter is reading this please look into this. I am former bank manager.

I feel bad for this guy. People are such phenomenal lowlifes to be doing this kind of thing to our elderly.

“Companies” like this are why I have an across the board “Don’t call us, we’ll call you” policy. If you contact me or send me junk, you automatically are out of the running and will never get my business.

The scams I hate the most are those automated calls saying “This is xy from cardholder services, there is no problem with your account, but it is urgent you call us concerning lowering your interest rates.” Yeah, sure it is.

How can we as a public help prevent this? Is there a way we could all help our family, friends & neighbors? Help educate those around us, Maybe talk to them, and let them know what the dangers are, and if they get calls like this, have them take down the callers info, and tell them they will get back to them. Then give the info you, and You could check it out for them, and get back to them. If it is a legit business/organization/charity, they would have no problem with that, and you should be able to find info on them fairly easily.

Trust No One!

People have to be AWARE of these operations. He was just plain stupid in this case.

Senior’s have to start going through their mail & sort out this junk,,,if their not able to do this ,have your kids or grandkids check it out BEFORE you write that check out.The worse the financial times the more people are thinking about ways to scam ya. Look at those who are backing sara palin,she’s taking her family on vacation! WAKE UP AMERICA!

Menzies..you are an insensitive jerk. Hopefully there is a special place in hell for these types of evil people taking advantage of the elderly. So sad for him.

Insensitive or not, the guy was plain old stupid- A fool and his money are soon parted as the saying goes. GULLIBLE!!!!

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I have an elderly family member who continues to be scammed by “contests” to win huge sums of money. She has lost huge sums of money, and her name must be on every mailing list of every crook in and outside the US. It is a nightmare.

I would like to send Calvin a check. Anyone know how we as as a community can help him. Thsi story goes to show that> No good deed goes unpunsihed!

I had to move back to my mom’s. I noticed all her calls where from Charities such as Firemans Association, Police Academy, Readers Digest. Daily they called, and her mail full of junk. So I wrote Deceased on the letters, and they stopped. Also got rid of her land line phone. Her life is normal again.

CBS should publish a list of all of the so-called charities that fleeced him. The IRS should investigate everyone of the charities for ligitimacy, pull their nonprofit status. The priority fo the police should be questioned. It sounds like grand theft.

I was involved in a scam about a hear ago. It was online and taken from my bank account. Thank goodness I bank at Wells Fargo. I reported this and they looked into it. In 3 months the scam stopped and I got all my money back from Wells. Mine was a happy ending. Wish this man’s story ends up well too.