VLOG host Dominic Arpin made the media rounds this week to talk about a rather worrying personal experience.
Recently, her mother was targeted by a phone scammer. “ My mother calls me. She is a little upset, anxious. She tells me that she received a call from my daughter, therefore her granddaughter, who is in prison. She has just had a car accident. She hit someone. She is responsible for the accident », he told On va se le dire on Wednesday.
He continues his story: “ The person on the other end of the line is crying, panicking. She needs money for bail, to get out of jail. Then, my mother is skeptical by nature. […] She started by saying: “But why didn’t you call your father?” My daughter lives in Montreal, it would have been more logical for her to call me than my parents who live in Montérégie. So there, the person said: “Yes, I tried to call him, but he didn’t answer.” That’s it, they [les fraudeurs] have scenarios. »
Dominic’s mother thinks she heard her granddaughter’s voice, but the host has doubts. “ Because the person was crying, screaming on the phone. Then, when you set up a climate of stress, from the start, your perceptions… Was it really a cloned voice? The more I read about it, and the more I find out, the more I doubt it, because it makes the process much too sophisticated. “, he said to Sébastien Diaz.
-« My mother made fun of the person asking the questions so much that the person ended up hanging up », he concludes.
However, it is not an experience that will remain without after-effects. “ My mother says, “I’m going to be scared when the phone turns on.” »
Dominic Arpin wants to speak openly about his experience in the media to prevent fraudsters from claiming too many victims in Quebec.
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