Well of course my father knows best so he won't listen to me, but he paid for it today. New phone scam.
These people literally called my mother, sister, and I, everyone except for my father, talking about some summonings/legal sounding shit, and we all ignored the calls, the left voice mails for us three, but never called my father.... Red Flag #1
So my father, worrying that he is running into legal trouble, called the number, which redirected him to another number. He said he was away from home so he couldn't talk them then and would call them within the hour. They called him back three times within that hour, this made me suspicious enough to call it a scam, Red Flag #2 but yet he wouldn't listen to me, and called them when we arrived back home. They explained some bullshit that he has to pay money for this and that and he has warrants out for his arrest. Which you can easily call and see if you have any warrants so I don't know why that didn't raise any red flags for him at that point. I should of sat by him while he was on the phone but I figured he could handle it. My father got scared and gave them his card numbers and email. They collected the exact "$500" he "needed" to pay instantly.
So yeah he got bummed out and I can't just say I told you so, he already feels bad enough, but since he never listens to me I had to yell at him a little and demanded he calls the bank and I sat there with him while he explained what happened. The bank says he can close the account, fill out a form, and Visa will hopefully reimburse the money.
Pretty crazy morning with all that lmao, hopefully he learned his mistake, and may actually take my advice now and then lol
Time for a glass a scotch and a bowl, gave him a glass and bowl as well. He might be stupid sometimes but he's my Dad, and I'm stupid sometimes too.