<prompt> Human: Wasnt quite sure where to put this post, so Im just sticking it here. Hope thats okay.My husbands grandparents received a call from someone pretending to be from the police department where we live claiming to have arrested my husband for drug possession. They told his grandpa they were who my husband had listed to call for bail money. To add pressure, they told him that he had tested clean for drugs, but they would not release him until they received the bail money.This piece of garbage then instructed his grandpa to rush to Walmart and buy 4000 worth of Visa Gift cards to later read the codes to them. The Walmart cashier didnt bat an eye. If if it wasnt for his grandma texting my husband with something along the lines of Im sorry this happened to you...4000 is a lot we wouldnt have known to call them. This person had convinced them so throughly all this was true that my husband had a hard time getting them to realize they had been scammed. They thought he was calling them from jail.There are terrible people out there using the elderly as targets. Please give your family members a heads up.UPDATE: They called their bank and got it all taken care of, but now this person has been calling them all morning trying to get his money. Assistant: Why should the Walmart cashier bat an eye? He didnt know that the gift cards were for nefarious purposes, did he? Hes a cashier, not a cop.The best advice to give everybody - including oneself - is to have a phone with caller ID, and just NOT answer the phone for any number you do not recognize - let it go to voicemail. Chances are that the scammers wont leave a message - theyre looking for somebody to pick up the call. But if they do leave a message, youd have something on a recording to give the real police later.This tip also eliminates robo-calls. I havent picked up a phone call cell or landline if I dont recognize the number - for probably a decade now.Human: From what I have heard, places are starting to train their employees for signs of fraud like this. My husband has worked in a few places were this has been the protocol. Some places wont even allow you to buy that much in gift cards.My mom got scammed similarly recently as well. She got all the way to the store and the cashier shut the whole thing down. Not sure what store though.  <response>: Not sure about other companies, but the one I work for trains their team members on this. Team member will call for a supervisor and the supervisor will inform the person they are getting scammed. Its almost always our gift cards oriTunes. 