Scammer at work in Castro Valley?

Your Boulevardier received the following email from a neighbor. Names have been obscured for privacy reasons.

Yesterday, around 4:00 p.m., a woman came to Julia Roberts's door, said she was Ann Margaret's daughter, and had locked herself out of her mother's house. Julia asked questions and found out that this woman was referring to Ann Bancroft. The woman said she grew up in this neighborhood and the reason she hasn't been around is that she was in the military. Julia knew that Ann Bancroft's daughter lives over the hill and the Roberts children went to school with the daughter. Lots didn't make sense to Julia. The woman wanted to use Julia's phone to call her sister and a locksmith. Julia let her. When she called the locksmith, she found out the cost for coming out was $69 and then she said she would drive to the locksmith?????

Julia has a older woman friend in CV that recently got the same scenerio from a different woman .. but she cried and ended up with $100 from the older woman!

So...heads up! Julia is calling Ann Bancroft to check the story and she will call the Sheriff and report the incident.

There you go ... another very good reason to have our neighborhood group on watch!!

Please be alert to similar scams in your neighborhood.