Social Security Scam Robs Elderly By Convincing Them They Are Dead (Video)

[Turborama]

A new scam preys on the elderly by informing them they have died and instructing them to reroute their social security checks to the "Department of the Dead."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHx0AbCOjFg

I had to screen grab the 2 top rated comments.

[applegrove]

1. My grandmother, at 100, spent a whole afternoon thinking she was dead.

The whole family was at a reunion out of town. She got her health care aid to call all of us and could not get us (somehow having a health care aid didn't dissuade her from thinking she was dead and she didn't want to upset said aid I think so she didn't mention that she thought she was dead). She was blind and bedridden and almost deaf. She finally got a great aunt of mine on the phone and when told we were all at the reunion said "I'm Alive! I'm Alive. I'm Alive!"

So I could see how this scam could work. The elderly often can't see or hear so they can't reality test and they wake up from a dream and get confused. What cruelty.

[Hannah Bell]

2. if they're dead, how are they able to reroute their SS checks?

[LisaL]

3. It's the onion.

[Hannah Bell]

4. well, there you go.