It is not necessary that this be made public but my Name is: Dr. Angell O. de la Sierra, Esq.
My niece's son is an American citizen born in Barcelona, Spain. He is a PhD in Mathematics from MIT with residence in same Mass. area and travels as required by.his job. Currently he is taking care of his ailing mother in Puerto Rico. We received a strange phone call here in Deltona, Florida (386 259-4265) from 331-807-3856 asking for "Tio" (Spanish for Uncle) as my niece calls me. Since I only have nieces and only one has sons that young, with a Spain accent and strangely sound like the caller, I thought I was talking to my niece's young son. He said: "I am in Mexico and will stop in Florida to see about some land in your area." I replied that he could stay with us and would show him a lake front acreage he may be interested in. I asked about his mother and he replied that she was stable but still recovering slowly. This is the actual situation with my niece under special care at her home! He said he would call back right away to give me more details about the trip. Within 15-20 minutes he called again and sound worried and apologetic, he said he accidentally crossed a red light at the Mexican airport area and was detained and was assigned a lawyer to handle the case because of high alerts about narcotraffic, terrorist activities at the airport and said: "Here is the lawyer, he wants to talk to you". What followed was the the first chapter of the unsuspected extortion scheme libretto. He said in typical Mexican accent that he needed to deposit $1 K with legal Mexican authorities while an investigation continued. The money was refundable within a month and gave me instructions about money transferring procedure (at my request). The money was processed accordingly. Within a short time the same phone # called to inform me having received the money but apparently a new development had delay his departure. "He will explain, here he is.".My nieces, son explained.
Enter Chapter 2 of the extortion scheme: This was an Oscar winning performance! He was almost crying Nd said that when they open his hand luggage, they found some $10 K undeclared cash and was held under detention. "I didn't know I had to declare anything personal.", he said and asked for help again by depositing a required fee to liberate the money. We had to repeat same trip to the money transferring store, this time for $2,440.00. End of Ch. 2. Chapter 3 open with same story, this time a similar amount of undeclared cash found in the laptop by the x-ray monitor. This time we all got suspitious and began taking steps by asking for names, position, letting them know we were recording these conversation. Meanwhile, my daughters took notes and tried to contact my niece by phone. The same 'retained lawyer' begged me to warn young mathematician to tell the truth because those trying to help him were compromising their own jobs. They said they had arranged for the next flight to Florida and would take him to airport. That was a well rehearsed act! Meanwhile we were gathering data. Before we could contact my niece to see if she knew her son was traveling with all that money, etc., the SAME phone # called, this time from the flight departure area for travelers boarding American Airlines Flight # 319 with destination Daytona Beach arriving at 5:45 pm EST. The opening paragraph of this last Chapter of this tragic comedy featured my niece's son crying because he was detained again because he was running to catch the flight and accidentally hit a young girl with his hand luggage and she fell down the escalator and fractured the skull and was unconscious. Again the ubiquitous retained lawyer appeared, this time asking for a temporary settlement so he wouldn't lose his flight. He said that because there existed exculpatory evidence from the camera monitors that it was an accident, etc. He said he could settle for the hospital expenses only and insurance would return money anyway. Then my cell phone rang with evidence that the young mathematician was still in Puerto Rico alongside his ailing mother as usual. I warned the lawyer from the airport who quoted citations from the Mexican Constitution's provision to assist traveling passengers under Pena Nieto presidency, He was warned that we would turn to FBI authorities all evidence, including recordings we made during this costly saga.
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a woman called my mom stating that she was her niece from san antionio, tx saying that she was going to visit her and wanted her address and asked if she was alone. she claimed that she would be coming the following to visit her.

Someone called our house phone just a few minutes ago claiming to be a cousin. It wasn't this number but instead: 331-807-7091. They were looking for my mom and knew both her first and last name. They said they were relatives on her side of the family, but wanted me to guess their name trying to make me feel bad that I had forgotten my "cousin." It was suspicious because 1) my cousins wouldn't play the guessing game for as long as this guy did 2) he spoke with a Mexican accent, and my family isn't from Mexico 3) my cousins refer to my mom by a different name, not the one they used. They finally gave me a name and I do have a family member by that name and I started speaking in English asking why he didn't tell me who he was at first. They completely didn't understand what I was saying and hung up. So annoying and scary. This is why I don't answer the house phone.

2014 the guy did not give me his name his phone number is 3318073856331807385 it is martin lutur king birthday

he sid e to pick him up at the areport inal

the man just call me right now

so we got a random call yesterday and it was a guy making my husband guess who he was. he eventually told him it was his cousin edgar and he wanted to come by before heading up to San Jose. he then calls me this morning saying he was held up by customs and needed 1,600 so he can cross over 26,000 that he was being detained for. i told him he had to speak to my husband about this. i then called my mother in law and told her the story we were given. she called her sister who called her son and found out it wasnt true. he kept calling and wanted us to speak to his lawyer so we can help him. my husband told him we called the police and gave them your info and he hasnt called back.

They just called my brother in law pretending to be his cousin from mexico. My husband told.him off an the guy hung up.

We got a house phone from this b*****d this morning! My mom answered and he once again played off that he was her nephew coming into town and would like to see the family. My mom just asked where he was coming from. He just said up north and wanted to stop by the house to rest from the long drive. My mom thought he was her nephew Tito because he sounded like him and when she asked him if it was him (knowing that this number was not Tito's) he played it off and said he was Tito. What a little scam! Then he called once again and my mom asked to speak with his mother and he immediately hanged up. If I would have picked up the phone, I would have automatically called him out and told him I was calling the Police. I advice to post this number on social networks so that people can know this scammer's number and warn them.

This man called my mother yesterday in the morning. He said "Tia, I am your nephew from Gonzalez family side guess who i am? claming that he was coming from arizona. my mom didn't know who he was but she react inmediatly and she played it off, since they had done it to my grandmother and uncle in Mexico already (diferent people, but the same premises). My mom said: "Jhonatan?", "He answer: Yes" and my mom asked him did you know that Tio Bartolomeo died? he answered i heard something about that. My mom doesn't have any nephews in Arizona by the name jonathan or an uncle bartolomeo but pretended she did to see what this guy wanted and how much he knew about our family. He stated he was coming to visit us, and proceeded to ask where we live to put it in his GPS. After my mom told him i dont have a nephew Jonathan or uncle bartolomeo he hang up. Becareful with this person is trying to take your money!!!!!

Our family just got this call too. Said he was my dad's nephew and tried to get my dad to guess his name. Luckily my dad is no idiot and did not throw out any names. After about a minute of trying to get him to say his own name, he finally just hung up!

Guy called and said he was a nephew coming to visit.  Wanted address and cell number. Haven't heard from him again but will repost if we do.

He keeps calling repeatedly, but it has ern more than one person, sometimes it is the "nephew" or "cousin". Is there anything that can be done against this harassment?

Harassing my family. The know the names of the homeowners and they never answered my question on who they were. They hanged up on me.

This guy called telling my parents that he was the cousin from Denver and that he missed us.He wanted to come visit but his car broke down somewhere in the middle of the road. He asked for $3000.00 dollars but once we asked for a name and last name to send the money. He hang up right away. Good luck looser on getting some money from us.

I just recieved a call from this guy who claimed to be an old aquintance of mine and asked me for my address. I thought it was someone I knew and I gave him my address. He said he was driving from Utah and had an accident and wanted me to wire $1000.00 to pay off this guy he wrecked in to. The address he wanted me to send the money to is: Rubi Gonzales Palma, 2711 Avenida Revolucion, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
When I asked him some questions about where we met, he hung up on me.

My mother got a call from this number. The man stated that they were a nephew and on his way to see her. He spoke Spanish and was planning on staying with her for the new year. We made sure to report him to the police.

this guy called today  saying he was family cousin he wanted to speak to my dad, said he was not home, i asked who is calling he said guess who an then hang up.

This guy called first my aunt and got information from my aunt she is an elderly person. This guy then called my mother and said it was a nephew and when my mom ask him why he sounded different he sai he had the flu. Well this guy called my mother and said he was coming to visit. Then a few hours later said he had gotten an accident and had to pay the guy he hit. My mother was so worried and send them the money so this fake nephew could come visit her. She send him her savings money. Then he called back he had to fixed his car to get to her. She didn't send him anymore. This is a fraud and I can't believe people take advantage of elderly people and steel there money. Get a job instead of making easy money that won't ever last you.

Someone just call my house number and ask to speak to my husband. He said he was hiw nephew but never gave his name.

The FTC warns about the family emergency scam here http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt111.pdf  Report to the Internet Crime Complaint Center http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx , the Federal Communications Commission http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm , the Federal Trade Commission https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ and your state AG http://www.naag.org/current-attorneys-general.php as appropriate.

Oh my gosh.!!! Same thing just happened. These ppl need to get a life.

this number has called many times, no messages left.

Ya my mom got 1st call saying he was on his way from texas, then 2nt he crashed into someone and needed $500 to pay off the guy he hit. And as soon as they find out you dont have $ to send them they hang up.  What a piece of work this people. Good thing is we got a hold of the person he was inpersonating & didnt send the SCAMER any money. I HOPE CARMA GETS A HOLD OF THIS S.O.B

They usually follow up with a second call, claiming that the mythical nephew/cousin/grandchild is (1) detained in customs and needs money, (2) in the hospital after an accident and needs money, (3) is in jail and needs bail money, (4) has been kidnapped and his captors need money.... you get the idea.

Well they reached Benson MN too. SCAMER asking for $500.00 a nephew coming from Texas. 331-807-3856 Phone is disconnected.

It's happening in Willmar MN as of today 10-24-2012

OMG! me too and I believe this guy and i gave him my home address.. what should i do? i already went to the police station and they told me to stay there and wait until he get there and then call the police wtf... Im so scare what might happen today...  what you think i should do?

Us too, please try to get be back as soon as you can. My mom said the phone got cought off. Plese tell me your last name? Or can you please tell me your parents name.

Me too! Can you please tell me what your last name is?