'If there was a Scammers Hall of Shame, this one would make the Top 10 List,' the FTC says. Scammers are posing as funeral home workers, calling people who just lost their loved ones and asking for thousand dollar deposits.
“If there was a Scammers Hall of Shame, this one would make the Top 10 List, without question,” the Federal Trade Commission said inThe perpetrators scour online obituaries and then call loved ones of the recently deceased claiming to be from the funeral home where arrangements have been made. The scammers tell the people they need to pay a deposit to secure their service or cremation.
“To prey on individuals and families at such a vulnerable time is despicable — the lowest of the low,” said Jessica Koth, director of public relations for the National Funeral Directors Association. Hope Etherton, a funeral director at the Rainsville Funeral Home in northeastern Alabama, was with a family preparing for a visitation when the wife of the deceased received a call on her cellphone.
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