If you can’t beat them…
A 92-year-old South Carolina woman gave a persistent scam caller trying to swindle money from her a taste of their own medicine.
The jokester, affectionately called “Bunma” by his family, casually tells the scammers nonsense stories that eventually cause them to drop the farce. It’s a pastime that brings her and her granddaughter lots of laughs.
“She loves to tease them and have a good laugh!” granddaughter Cheyenne Toney told Storyful.
“Bunma is 92 years old and lives alone with a healthy mind and a great sense of humor. She gives us a lot of entertainment!”
Tony, who recorded a series of videos of Vuma’s comedic ramblings in March and April, said his grandmother was receiving “a lot” of spam and scammer calls.
In one video, she asks a scammer if he believes in God, then tells him the shocking reason why she doesn’t need the product he’s selling.
“I think I’m going to be raptured, you know?” Bunma says with a straight face.
“So I don’t need any of that. Jesus will be back soon and take me up to the clouds. Are you ready to go?”
At that point, the scammer hung up.
This tactic seems to work every time. In another video, Buma asks her caller for a senior discount, with the fed-up scammer accusing her of wasting her time.
“Are you kidding me?” I heard him say a few times before hanging up with a huff.
In the final clip, Buma is hysterical after a loved one causes a car accident and the other driver is taken to the hospital in critical condition, and a con artist tries to convince her that she has been arrested and needs bail. Pretend to be.
“What should I do, girl?” Vuma says through a fake sob as Tony chuckles in the background.
The scammer tried to convince Mr. Vuma to send him all the money he could, even though he claimed he didn’t have enough money. She says otherwise her loved ones will be sent to prison.
This caused Bumma to start crying again and was dramatic enough for the scammer to hang up.
Bumma is ahead of the curve, but seniors are especially susceptible to scam calls trying to scam them out of their funds.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, nearly 70,000 people were collectively defrauded of $1.3 billion in romance scams in 2022.
