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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

TAKEDOWN! Granny Turns Tables on Con A Man!

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

News, True Crime

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A Long Island grandmother helps capture a suspected scammer.

Transcript

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I'm not a fan of the

0:06.0

crime stories with Nancy Grace.

0:13.0

Stop what you're doing just for a moment and think about your mother.

0:18.0

Now think about your grandmother.

0:20.0

Because right now I'm thinking about my grandmother, Lucy,

0:24.0

Minerva, Fullwood Stokes Hartley.

0:28.0

And how she had nothing, and I remember one time I couldn't pay a phone bill,

0:33.0

long distance to my fiance Keith, as soon as you still had to pay long distance.

0:37.0

And I went to hers stupidly unwittingly, and she had nothing.

0:42.0

I needed money to pay that phone bill.

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And she went to her change purse.

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She opened up her old change purse, and she took out $50 and gave me her money.

0:56.0

And I, the stupid teen that I was, went thanks and ran out and paid the bill,

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not realizing that that $50 was a huge amount of her monthly government payment for retirement.

1:18.0

Okay, just, but she gave me that little bit, you know, that she had.

1:26.0

And of course, I never paid it back.

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God forgive me.

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That's who my daughter's named after Lucy, she's named after my grandmother Lucy,

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that helped raise me.

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Okay, now that you've got the mill image of your grandmother or your grandmother in your mind,

1:40.0

think of some P-O-S technical legal term.

1:47.0

That actually scams your grandmother, try to rip her off of her little money.

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