No one wants a phone scammer giving them a call, but one woman in Canada might have given one scammer a fight that he won’t soon forget.
Dawn Belmonte, of Ontario, Canada, received a call from a man who said his name was "David" and he was calling to help with money she owed, WTVT reports. Belmonte knew that the call was a scam immediately and decided to mess with the caller, who was saying she needed to pay him $2,500.
"Do you have any kind of line of credit in your bank?" David asked her. "No, I have nothing, my husband took all our money and he's in jail because he had tax evasion and now he's going to get me in trouble!" she tells him in the video.
Belmonte begins to fake cry on the video as David continues to ask whether she wants to pay just 10 percent of the money she owes. She continues with the ruse, telling him that her husband is in jail and she is at home with her six children while her son and husband walk through the room.
Finally, David breaks down, and in a turn of events, admits to Belmonte that the whole thing was a scam to take money from her. "What I have told you is totally wrong. This is a scam. We were just trying to take money out of you," he said in the video. "Make sure and don't fall for it. Don't worry about anything, nothing will happen to you."
"I made up the first name that came to my head -- Marisa Silvera -- I don't even know where it came from," Belmonte told CBC News.
"Then when I hung up, I thought this is great. I can take this to the police and they can do something with it because he's actually confessed."
But police told they could not do much since the callers usueally scramble their location.
Belmonte told WTVT she was shocked by the outcome and posted that the ending was "gold" on the Facebook post.
"I honestly had no idea. I thought it would just get to my friends," Belmonte told CBC News. "I didn't think that it would be as big as it is. I'm flabbergasted."
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