Scams like these

[Warks]

Here's one for the books. I was talking with a friend the other day and he said his aged mother-in-law (90) recently got a letter saying someone in the UK had died and they were looking for the remaining relatives. She'd been born there but lived in Aus for 70 years. Anyway it seemed like the usual scam so it was about to go in the bin when someone checked up with another relative living in Australia and found out it was actually genuine. It turned out it was some cousin who'd inherited earlier but didn't have any children and there was some clause in the will about living relatives in their generation receiving the proceeds of the estate. There must have been a lot of them as it only ended up being about $20K but it was a nice windfall for her.
So it's not always a scam.... but on the balance of probabilities it is probably a scam.

 

[AuSammy]

Today I got my first “dear dad I lost my phone, here’s the new number, i need some cash” text in over two years. I thought they had petered out for good