OPINION:
Readers should be aware of a scam being perpetrated against the elderly. I recently received a phone call from an individual who claimed to be my grandson. He disguised his voice to sound as if he had been in an accident. He said he was in jail in upstate New York and needed $10,000 in cash to pay his bail. He said he had been in an accident, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and had crashed into another vehicle.
Somehow I was then talking to another individual who claimed he was an attorney who would represent my grandson. He said his name was Harold Nissan, and he gave me a phone number with which I could call him when I had gotten the money, and he could tell me how and where to send it.
I discussed this with my daughter, and we decided that this obviously was a scam. Her son never has been to New York, for one thing. She called the police to report it and was advised that this is a somewhat common occurrence.
GLENN BRAUNER
Annapolis
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