By Bob Glissmann
World-Herald Staff Writer

The caller sounded like Karen Jensen's grandson, Jake, embarrassed to be asking his grandma for money after he suffered a concussion and a hurt lip in a weekend car accident.

He apologized again and again, saying he was in Quebec, Canada, accompanying a friend to a relative's funeral. The car he had rented was damaged in the crash, he told Jensen, and he needed her to wire him $2,500 to take care of the bill because his insurance company wouldn't pay right away.

“Don't you want to call your dad?” Jensen asked him. No, he replied, he was too embarrassed. He asked that she not say anything to anyone about his predicament until he returned.

“He was very sweet to me over the phone — ‘Grandma this' and ‘Grandma that,'” said Jensen, who lives in Lincoln. “When I think about it, it just makes me irate.”

The caller wasn't Jensen's grandson, of course. It was a scammer who, except for an alert Walmart clerk, almost got Jensen's money on Monday morning.

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