Hi all,
Just need to get this off my chest and see if this has happened to anyone else. In the middle of the workday I got a call from my dad - not a random number, but my dad's number as saved in my phone. When I answered it was another guy's voice and I couldn't understand him at first - I thought he was saying he was calling from the county my dad was currently in, and I assumed it was some kind of accident. But he said he had my dad with him at gunpoint and if I didn't send him $3,000 he would shoot him. At this point I heard a man sobbing in the background that I SWEAR sounded like my dad. I panicked and spent probably 45 minutes on the phone with this guy going through multiple payment methods trying to send him shit. He also kept threatening to shoot my dad if he heard anybody else in the background. I was frantically texting my bf for help but he was in therapy for the first bit of the call and couldn't help at first.
Sparing all the details, I did send $500 to this guy via Zelle and thankfully all other attempts were blocked. At one point the call dropped and the guy called me back, still using my dad's number and was super angry and aggressive. This guy even had me on the phone with Chase customer service trying to reverse the fraud! In hindsight I feel so dumb but I was so fucking scared. Eventually my bf was responding to me and got in touch with my brother, who eventually got ahold of my dad and my dad called my bf's phone, at which point I hung up on the guy and blocked my dad's number. I have a claim in with my bank to reverse the charge and the fraud department assured me this guy can't access my account in any way. I didn't give him a routing number, social security, anything like that - it was just a string of attempts to get money sent via Cash App, PayPal, Venmo, etc.
Of course I'd like the money back but I'm more scared that this guy is somehow gonna find my house or do something else. My boyfriend is stressed and feels like our safety is compromised. Has this happened to anyone here, and what did you do?