<p>Here is an article about it:
[Whistleblower:</a> Scammers caught on tape | StarTribune.com](<a href=“http://www.startribune.com/local/125252644.html]Whistleblower:”>http://www.startribune.com/local/125252644.html)
"…It started with a phone call in May. The muffled voice of a woman claiming to be Comer’s daughter said she had been arrested for drunken driving and was calling from a pay phone in a jail in Texas.</p>
<p>But Comer knew his daughter was in St. Paul, at her job as a supply clerk in a medical clinic. So he switched on the tape recorder connected to his phone line.</p>
<p>Next came a call from a woman claiming to be his daughter’s attorney, telling him to wire $5,300 to a “bailiff” in Dallas to put up bail. The lawyer also used his daughter’s maiden name, another tip-off she was an impostor.</p>
<p>Later, the fake attorney put an accomplice on the phone who claimed he was a prosecutor, who told Comer to follow the attorney’s instructions.</p>
<p>Often called the “grandparent scam,” because it typically targets seniors by those posing as teenaged or young adult grandchildren, this crime is well-known to law enforcement in the United States and Canada. A relative, in a desperate situation, needs money wired at once…"</p>