Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm going easy Boston's
Speaker 1: new radio.
Speaker 2: I'll renumber three of Nightside without Dan Ray. I'm Morgan
Speaker 2: Morgan White Junior. Been a part of the WBZ landscape,
Speaker 2: oh my goodness, going back to nineteen ninety five, ninety six.
Speaker 2: And I've been lucky enough to fill in for Dan
Speaker 2: all this week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, last Night, Thursday, Tonight, Friday,
Speaker 2: and I have my own show on Saturday that begins
Speaker 2: tomorrow at ten o'clock for the last time, I am
Speaker 2: pushed to nine o'clock beginning the first show of the year,
Speaker 2: and as well, I'll be here next Monday and Tuesday
Speaker 2: for Dan. So I have a lot of time in
Speaker 2: front of this microphone. And I met this gentleman, No Goodree,
Speaker 2: fifteen sixteen years ago. He worked for the City of Newton.
Speaker 2: I always emphasize that Newton is a city, not a town,
Speaker 2: not a hamlet, not a community, a city and we're gosh, dar,
Speaker 2: I'm proud of that designation. And he was the head
Speaker 2: of the police department in the City of Newton, and periodically,
Speaker 2: even though he retired about two years ago, I still
Speaker 2: call upon him to come on the radio when there's
Speaker 2: a subject I feel he can address. So please welcome
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Bruce Apothecar Hi Bruce, Hi Morgan.
Speaker 3: How are you today?
Speaker 2: I am fine? And are you comfortable people still calling
Speaker 2: you lieutenant even though you retired a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting many people do call me that.
Speaker 3: Even when I was working in I was a lieutenant.
Speaker 3: I used to tell people just you know, if they
Speaker 3: were a suborder of mine, I would say, you know,
Speaker 3: just call me by my first name, Bruce, and some people,
Speaker 3: you know, I feel comfortable by that name lieutenant. Some
Speaker 3: people call me lt. But in the end, uh, I'm
Speaker 3: just a regular guy. Uh, a boy from Rushbury and
Speaker 3: Georgester to make it pretty good. But I want to
Speaker 3: wish everybody before we start. I wanted with everybody happy, uh,
Speaker 3: New Year, Merry Christmas, happy Hanukah and uh. I always
Speaker 3: like to start up by saying the real heroes up
Speaker 3: there are the ones in uniform, police, fire, first responders,
Speaker 3: truly doctor and you know even people who were the uniform,
Speaker 3: someone in the custodial staff. You know, people that are
Speaker 3: always helping others, and so I always say they're out
Speaker 3: there for us. And it's nice if we can always
Speaker 3: be there for them.
Speaker 2: You say LT for lieutenant. Uh, that was the way
Speaker 2: that a couple of the police under Lieutenant Van Buren
Speaker 2: on Lauren Order referred to her. And Benjamin Brett, his character,
Speaker 2: used to always call her LT. So maybe that's where
Speaker 2: they got it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's interesting, you know. I go back to like
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three, and I can remember when I was
Speaker 3: first a rookie going into the station and the lieutenant
Speaker 3: who will be in charge of the ship, people are
Speaker 3: calling him Lou. So I thought that was his name, Lou.
Speaker 3: But you learned mighty quickly. And I know, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'll fight it at Hotma Store, but I
Speaker 3: know some people in Newton will call their lieutenant Lootie.
Speaker 3: So just different variations. But in the end, it's all
Speaker 3: the same, and we all worked for the common goal
Speaker 3: of helping others.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you mentioned nineteen eighty three. In nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty three, the bad guys, the criminals, the thieves out
Speaker 2: there had not thought of making a duplicate copy of
Speaker 2: your mortgage and making it look like on paper that
Speaker 2: you sold your house that wasn't on somebody's mind in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty three that came along, and I'm thinking mid
Speaker 2: to late nineties to the beginning of the two thousands.
Speaker 2: But that's just another way that the bad guys trying
Speaker 2: to find a way to steal from you without putting
Speaker 2: a gun to your head. And one of the reasons
Speaker 2: I want you tonight, I want you to talk about
Speaker 2: some of the scams and con artists and circumstances where
Speaker 2: Joe and Jane Citizen have their property taken from them.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, someone's more likely than not to have
Speaker 3: the house broken that the taking property. When I first
Speaker 3: got on the job, chest at a mall, and I
Speaker 3: believe the Braintream all was the too highest areas of
Speaker 3: stolen cars, stolen vehicles, and I can remember there's probably
Speaker 3: maybe once a shift the chests in the mall. You
Speaker 3: take a report of a stolen car, and and you know,
Speaker 3: things evolved. Car alims. It's just you know, there's video
Speaker 3: out there and it's just a whole really of different things,
Speaker 3: but it's the same thing like with the mortgage scams
Speaker 3: and all that. Things were always evolving. I think what
Speaker 3: the legislature should do, and I'm surprised they haven't done
Speaker 3: it yet. Somehow try to work on the front end
Speaker 3: of that, and so someone just can't file a title
Speaker 3: without you know, maybe showing proper identification or certain things
Speaker 3: that would ward off anything like a title being stolen.
Speaker 3: But you know what, there's and we've talked about this
Speaker 3: on many occasions. Just when you think you've seen it all,
Speaker 3: there's always another scam out there, and we all remember
Speaker 3: it all seems sosided. You know, years ago, remember the
Speaker 3: Nigerian scams where a prince would email you and say,
Speaker 3: you know he needs money. You give him a ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars, he'll he promised he's going to give you
Speaker 3: a millionaire return. So there's just something I can remember
Speaker 3: over the years, having so of the supermarkets and Newton
Speaker 3: would contact us and say that, you know, we have
Speaker 3: someone who's been here for less a couple of days.
Speaker 3: They an elderly person and they're requesting money orders, you know,
Speaker 3: ten thousand dollars, fifteen thousand dollars and they're going to
Speaker 3: send it to somebody. So we would work with them,
Speaker 3: and I can remember one particular woman that you know,
Speaker 3: we spoke to the family and they were aware that
Speaker 3: she was, you know, being scammed out and what did
Speaker 3: she do the next day She went back and she
Speaker 3: did another money order. So yeah, it's a it's a
Speaker 3: tough thing out there, but you know, very fortunate. I
Speaker 3: always said working in Middlesex County U D. A. Ryan
Speaker 3: Middlesex DA Ryan does a fantastic job. Goes around the
Speaker 3: different senior centers, goes around to different cities and towns
Speaker 3: within Middlesex County and makes a lot of people, a
Speaker 3: lot of seniors aware of these scams. And by working
Speaker 3: again on the front end the police and the prosecution,
Speaker 3: I won't have to deal with it on the back end.
Speaker 2: I have a break roughly about sixty seconds away, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to open up the phone line six four
Speaker 2: ten thirty eight eight eight nine to nineteen thirty. If
Speaker 2: you have been scammed, or even if you have heard
Speaker 2: of a scam, somebody in your office the old we've
Speaker 2: kidnapped your grandchild and unless we get X amount of dollars,
Speaker 2: you'll never see them again. Meanwhile, your grandchild's at home
Speaker 2: watching NFL football. If you want to speak to any
Speaker 2: of those scams, call in. I guarantee you the lieutenant
Speaker 2: will have heard of any scam you can mention, and
Speaker 2: by mentioning them, you're helping all the people listening to
Speaker 2: Nightside right now be more aware of what to look
Speaker 2: out for, what not to do, to just have their
Speaker 2: life go much more smoothly and simply. So give us
Speaker 2: a call. Six point seven two five four ten thirty
Speaker 2: eight eight eight nine two nineteen thirty. This is Nightside.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan filling in for Dan Ray. I've got Lieutenant
Speaker 2: Pruss Apothecar, former lieutenant in the City of Newton, and
Speaker 2: he's here with me to help you at home. Time
Speaker 2: and temperature ten point fifteen thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Ray live from the Window World Nightside
Speaker 1: Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan is off tonight. He'll be off Monday and Tuesday,
Speaker 2: returning on Wednesday. To this microphone here at Nightside. My
Speaker 2: name Morgan White Jr. Periodically they call me into filling
Speaker 2: for Dan when Dan is off, and I do the
Speaker 2: best I can. I have a huge drolodex of great guests.
Speaker 2: I try to repeat them every two or three months
Speaker 2: because they represent stories and comments to help you. Right now,
Speaker 2: I've got Lieutenant Bruce Hypotheca and Bruce, can you speak
Speaker 2: to the scam that I mentioned before where somebody will
Speaker 2: call you and say they've got your child or grandchild hostage,
Speaker 2: and a lot of people panic and do what this
Speaker 2: mysterious caller says, and they send thousands to wherever they're
Speaker 2: told to get the safety of the kid back.
Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely, yeah. I actually had it happened to me
Speaker 3: one night. I was in my home and the phone
Speaker 3: ring and it said the uh, I forget we're in Georgia,
Speaker 3: but Georgia police apartment, and they said that my daughter
Speaker 3: was arrested and that I needed to send some money
Speaker 3: to help bail her out. And knowing that my daughter
Speaker 3: was in the next one sleeping, I uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I actually you know, I said to the guy, you
Speaker 3: get the wrong one, brother, But uh, in all honesty,
Speaker 3: that does happen. That was a common one, uh a
Speaker 3: few years ago where somebody would call up all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, a h A younger boye would get on
Speaker 3: the phone and say like grandma, grandpa and you know
Speaker 3: then whoever was was the grandmother and grandfather of someone.
Speaker 3: They would say like you know, Mary, is that you
Speaker 3: and then presson would get back on the phone, say yes,
Speaker 3: we have Mary. He's under arrest, and you know, we
Speaker 3: don't want it to be held in these conditions. So if
Speaker 3: you want to, you know, she arned five thousand, ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars to bill them up. And I can remember
Speaker 3: one day there was a woman who got a phone
Speaker 3: call saying that her husband was involved in a crash
Speaker 3: and they had gone out of the car. You know,
Speaker 3: the people that she was talking to to exchange papers,
Speaker 3: and they put them in the trunk of the car
Speaker 3: and now they're driving around with them. Unless she gives
Speaker 3: them thousands of dollars, they were going to have them.
Speaker 3: So she called her husband's cell phone and he always
Speaker 3: answers the cell phone, but he didn't answer he that day,
Speaker 3: and she tried them through up the day, and finally
Speaker 3: she gave money to these people and then they called
Speaker 3: back saying they wanted more and lo and behold, her
Speaker 3: husband calls her on the other line is says, you know, honey,
Speaker 3: how are you know I got to uh turn my
Speaker 3: uh ringer on. So if you are want to these
Speaker 3: scammers and you send out thousands of phone calls a day,
Speaker 3: all it takes is one person for them to have
Speaker 3: hit the lottery, right, So you know, you never give
Speaker 3: any money.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Always contact the police department always.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And and you know something, there are a lot of
Speaker 3: people listening right now that have elderly parents. And this
Speaker 3: isn't you know, accrus with elderly people, but it seems
Speaker 3: like that's who they pray on. But you know, have
Speaker 3: these conversations with them. And I you know, I'll say
Speaker 3: it ten times and I've said it before. You gotta
Speaker 3: work on the front end. So whether it's an elderly
Speaker 3: parent that shouldn't be driving a vehicle, whether it's an
Speaker 3: elderly parent that may be starting to wane in the memory. Uh,
Speaker 3: and cognitively, you know, you just want to have these
Speaker 3: conversations with them and say, listen, you know, if you
Speaker 3: get these phone calls, don't do anything. If you get
Speaker 3: any emails, don't do anything. Never give out your information.
Speaker 3: If somebody says it with a bank and they need
Speaker 3: your bank social security and your bank number, you know,
Speaker 3: tell them to call you first, to call the police,
Speaker 3: just to verify it.
Speaker 2: Everybody panics when they hear these three letters I R S.
Speaker 2: The I R S does not call you. They communicate
Speaker 2: with paper correspondents. That's their first extension to you. So
Speaker 2: if someone's calling and saying, I'm with the I R S.
Speaker 2: My name is Agent Jones. You need to do X,
Speaker 2: Y and Z because you O A, B and C
Speaker 2: B scam Alert, you're being scammed. Yep.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, But again, when you phone thousands of people today,
Speaker 3: all they're hoping for is that one person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and it makes it worth.
Speaker 1: While, yep.
Speaker 3: And it's very difficult to track down a lot of
Speaker 3: the people. A lot of times they may be operating
Speaker 3: out of another country and you know, people sending money
Speaker 3: orders to doing other ways of getting them the funds
Speaker 3: that they're requesting. So never ever give it out. And
Speaker 3: that's why again I go back to d a Ryan
Speaker 3: and she's working on the front of this for many years,
Speaker 3: going to the senior set, is talking to different people,
Speaker 3: having people in the banking industry show up and talk
Speaker 3: at some of these seminars. But don't ever give anything.
Speaker 3: That's that's the rule. Don't ever give anything out, money,
Speaker 3: your information, any any sort of something that's private to you.
Speaker 3: And because again they'll, uh, they'll just take advantage of
Speaker 3: it and they'll run with it. And the next thing
Speaker 3: you know you're thousands of dollars.
Speaker 2: Ninety Sure it's a ripoff. Let me go to West Roxbury.
Speaker 2: Take Catherine who was called in to speak to you,
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Bruce of Africa.
Speaker 5: Catherine, Hello, Hi, Hi'm Morgan. I really love your show.
Speaker 5: First of all, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: And you're describing what happened to me. This was probably
Speaker 5: at least four or five months ago, and a lawyer
Speaker 5: called and said that he had my grandson and that
Speaker 5: my grandson was involved in an auto accident with a
Speaker 5: pregnant woman and he was going to be kept overnight
Speaker 5: in jail unless I sent seven thousand dollars, and because
Speaker 5: I was not going to do that immediately, I knew
Speaker 5: not to, but it scared me half to death. And
Speaker 5: then they put the voice on, which all young people
Speaker 5: sound the same to me anyway, and he sounded just
Speaker 5: like my grandson. But I still didn't do anything. And
Speaker 5: then I and they said, oh, don't call Oh the
Speaker 5: young boy said, don't call my mother. Don't whatever you do,
Speaker 5: don't call her, which is what I was going to
Speaker 5: do my daughter. But finally when they hung up, I
Speaker 5: called my other grandson and he immediately said, it's a scam,
Speaker 5: don't do anything. And I didn't know who to call
Speaker 5: to tell that it had happened. Now that you said,
Speaker 5: call the police. If it ever happens again, which it hasn't,
Speaker 5: I will do that. But I did call back. The
Speaker 5: man gave me his phone number, the lawyer, and I
Speaker 5: called back and he answered, and I said, are you
Speaker 5: really lying? And he hung right up on me, and
Speaker 5: that was the end of it.
Speaker 3: Ruce, Well, consider yourself lucky, but that has happened. You know,
Speaker 3: you want the loan in that And I'm sure there
Speaker 3: are other people that that phone call was made that
Speaker 3: day that actually probably gave him some money.
Speaker 5: Oh two days I saw the same thing on the
Speaker 5: news in the evening and mine was seven thousand. On
Speaker 5: the news they it went up to nine thousand. I
Speaker 5: don't know if it was the same man, but it
Speaker 5: was the same scam, and the woman gave it to them.
Speaker 5: They came to it was a young girl. She came
Speaker 5: to her house and picked up the money and they
Speaker 5: got away with it. But I think they did catch
Speaker 5: the girl. But yeah, it was very frightening, and I'm
Speaker 5: so glad I called my other grandson. I had to
Speaker 5: do something. I just couldn't. I couldn't let it go.
Speaker 5: I wasn't no way was I going to give them
Speaker 5: seven thousand, I said, do you expect me to go
Speaker 5: with seven thousand dollars I pocketbook or my pocket.
Speaker 2: You should not give them seven cents. You should not
Speaker 2: get them again.
Speaker 5: Never you work hard for your money, That's right. No, no,
Speaker 5: I would now never fall for anything like that. But
Speaker 5: I should have had the rest number, and I should
Speaker 5: have called the police. At least they would have had
Speaker 5: his number, you know, and it was fresh enough so
Speaker 5: that he answered my phone call, so chances are he
Speaker 5: would have answered the police. So now that I know that,
Speaker 5: and I hope I never get another one, but if
Speaker 5: I do, it's good to know exactly what to do.
Speaker 2: Catherine, Thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing that story.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Catherine. I'm glad that you never ended up
Speaker 3: by giving him any money.
Speaker 5: Happy New Year to you, Okay, Happy New Year to
Speaker 5: you too.
Speaker 4: Both Happy.
Speaker 2: And Bruce. Go back two four ten years. You're sitting
Speaker 2: at your desk and Catherine called you that this has happened.
Speaker 2: What do you, as the representative of the police in Newton,
Speaker 2: what do you do when she gives you the number.
Speaker 2: Who's someone that's trying to pull this scam.
Speaker 3: Well, what we would do is we would have an
Speaker 3: officer speak to her. We would have an officer look
Speaker 3: up that phone number. You can get any information on it.
Speaker 3: See most likely it's probably a throwaway phone. Sometimes they
Speaker 3: can go over the internet and they can put in
Speaker 3: any number they want. That's why when someone calls up,
Speaker 3: think with me, I saw you know what the George
Speaker 3: of police departments. They can make it look like it's
Speaker 3: anybody you can. You know how many times a day
Speaker 3: do we all get these stam phone calls? And they
Speaker 3: can be on thet they can put it in any
Speaker 3: phone number they want. There was a while a few
Speaker 3: years ago, I must have got three or four phone
Speaker 3: calls within an owl. It was my phone number calling me.
Speaker 3: I recognize that number. But yeah, again, just when you
Speaker 3: think that you can then you've seen them all as
Speaker 3: another one. But again, they could be a million different scams.
Speaker 3: But you never give out your information. You never give
Speaker 3: in any money never. So no matter how, no matter
Speaker 3: how do you scam changes by not giving out any
Speaker 3: personal information, I'll giving out any money. They're going to
Speaker 3: go on to the next call and that's what you want.
Speaker 2: You want them not to pester you, but go away
Speaker 2: and try someone else and hopefully they'll be smart enough
Speaker 2: not to fall for it. I've got a news hit
Speaker 2: to take and when we come back from the news,
Speaker 2: we have Maryland and Watertown. So Maryland, be patient. We'll
Speaker 2: get to you quite shortly. Here on Night Side. Well,
Speaker 2: the time is ten thirty thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We're in the middle of exposing scams. I've got former
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Bruce apothecar Arm with me. He was a lieutenant
Speaker 2: in the city of Newton. He was there. Did you
Speaker 2: say eighteen years of service? Bruce?
Speaker 3: Uh, thirty nine thirty nine.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know where I get eighteen thirty nine
Speaker 2: years of service. And we're talking about some of the
Speaker 2: more often used scams, carns, hustles that are out there.
Speaker 2: And let's go to Watertown and speak to Maryland. Maryland,
Speaker 2: thank you for calling. Welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 4: Hey, I don't have an exciting story to tell you,
Speaker 4: but I had to call because this is my two
Speaker 4: favorite people. So I had to call and I respected
Speaker 4: you as a lieutenant, but I you know, I know
Speaker 4: you was Bruce, and I don't know how many Maryland
Speaker 4: Jane Bruce, but this is Marylynd Potito de Vienni and
Speaker 4: I lot.
Speaker 6: I know you.
Speaker 4: I didn't know how many Maryland or knew. But anyway,
Speaker 4: I got a call a couple of years ago and
Speaker 4: it was a young man and it was a voice
Speaker 4: I would say probably about sixteen. But like you, Bruce,
Speaker 4: my phone number came up. I thought that was a
Speaker 4: little strange. And he said, he says, Grandma, I was,
Speaker 4: you know, I was, I was raised or anything in
Speaker 4: my car and I got stopped and and I'm at
Speaker 4: the police station, and I don't want my mother and
Speaker 4: father to know. Could just send me some money? And
Speaker 4: I said, uh gee, I don't think I would send
Speaker 4: it all the way to Long Island, New York. I said,
Speaker 4: thanks for the call. My grandson. My grandson was out
Speaker 4: of college at that time, and I knew, you know,
Speaker 4: it was a young boys, and you know, I knew
Speaker 4: it was a scam. But I have to tell you
Speaker 4: I didn't call a police because I didn't figure they
Speaker 4: could do anything. Is that isn't is that right?
Speaker 3: What could have been done?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: And all that's who auty. You know, if they attempted
Speaker 3: h then is the chances of finding someone's probably very slim.
Speaker 3: But you know, we do like to know though, because
Speaker 3: see what trends are going on out there, because then
Speaker 3: you can educate the public by notifying us, uh the police.
Speaker 3: Now I was there, but by notifying the police, they
Speaker 3: can put out, you know, a local advisories.
Speaker 4: So if yeah, yeah, that's that's that's what it is.
Speaker 4: I should have I should have done that. I should
Speaker 4: have done that. But anyway, but no, it's always a
Speaker 4: pleasure of seeing you at all the events and Newton
Speaker 4: and this is my favorite, one of my favorite programs.
Speaker 4: I wish you were on more ROF and I listened
Speaker 4: to you all the time.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: Let me just say, Morgan Maryland is a true h
Speaker 3: a true local hero. She's a community uh activist. You
Speaker 3: see her everywhere and you might I don't know, Maryland,
Speaker 3: you want to say what you do for our work?
Speaker 4: Absolutely I had Morgan, I have to tell you. He
Speaker 4: brought it up. I wasn't going to say. I was
Speaker 4: an elected governors council of for thirty two towns and
Speaker 4: cities from AYR to Boston for twenty five years and
Speaker 4: I got defeated after twenty five years in September. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and you know, I didn't fight the lies. I took
Speaker 4: the high road. And you know when I saw those
Speaker 4: commercials with those governor candidates for New Hampshire, you know,
Speaker 4: each calling each other a liar, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4: And so my friends are angry. I said, they said
Speaker 4: you should have bought those lives, and I said, I
Speaker 4: just couldn't do it. So that's the new politics today,
Speaker 4: and it's said, it's said, you.
Speaker 2: Know, it's not new in mudslinging and purposely lying about
Speaker 2: something in regards to your opponent is elections and elections
Speaker 2: and elections old. But let me ask you this. Are
Speaker 2: you is this a two year term or a four
Speaker 2: year term.
Speaker 4: It's a two year term. And I've been elected twenty
Speaker 4: five years and I've had twenty three opponents through the years.
Speaker 4: I have the most active from Brookline and Newton and
Speaker 4: you know all of them, and so there's always someone
Speaker 4: that's active and you know is going to run. And
Speaker 4: so I'm proud of the I made a lot of
Speaker 4: changes and I promised that. So I'm proud of that.
Speaker 4: But like I said, you know, my friends are angry
Speaker 4: because she ran on abortion, and we don't vote on abortion.
Speaker 4: We vote on people, you know, parole board, appel, a
Speaker 4: tax board. We vote on judges, clerk, magistrates. So you know,
Speaker 4: I took the high road and that's it. But Broce,
Speaker 4: you are so kind.
Speaker 3: To even think of me.
Speaker 4: But I see Bruce everywhere and I live in watter Town.
Speaker 4: But my rusa Newton. When my mother she was a
Speaker 4: Danucci and when she came from Italy, her family lived
Speaker 4: in Newton, and my cousin was Joe Denucci, the estate editor.
Speaker 4: So I have a special feeling. And my mother's oldest
Speaker 4: brother was one of the originators Bruce of the Saint
Speaker 4: Maria Common. And that's been going on what for eighty
Speaker 4: eight years or something, And you know, I'm there every
Speaker 4: July walking the streets and it's you know, we walk
Speaker 4: up the statue. It was a wonderful thing we have.
Speaker 4: They have a wonderful carnival. It's just isn't a Bruce.
Speaker 4: Isn't it great that the younger people have kept it up?
Speaker 3: You know, really, you know, it was King's the lot
Speaker 3: over the years.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Maryland, I want you to register to run
Speaker 2: again in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: Focus, you know, focus on your focus, on your highs,
Speaker 2: focus on your highs, and you'll get that job back again.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, you're very kind and Morgan. I wish
Speaker 4: you were on more often. Your your shows are so
Speaker 4: interesting and this is the first time I've got in,
Speaker 4: but I had to talk to both of you. And
Speaker 4: Bruce is the most loved in Newton. And yes he
Speaker 4: is still called lieutenant, but he let me call him Bruce, right, Bruce, absolutely, Marylyn.
Speaker 2: I'm in the middle of eight days of shows out
Speaker 2: of nine Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna be whipped to come next Tuesday,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna make it to the finish line. I promise.
Speaker 2: I'm going to do the best.
Speaker 4: Great great, Well, I'm listening, okay, and stay healthy you
Speaker 4: and Bruce and Bruce. How wonderful that we celebrated Christmas
Speaker 4: in Honka the same day you said it wasn't that
Speaker 4: wonderful this year?
Speaker 3: Yep, yep. I think the last one was in the
Speaker 3: nineteen nineties, No, two thousand and five.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I got to tell you. This was my
Speaker 4: twenty fifth Honka celebration in the state House and I
Speaker 4: went in with the governor and I was wanted to speak.
Speaker 4: It's a wonderful, wonderful celebration.
Speaker 2: Mary Maryland. No one I can vote for you living
Speaker 2: in Newton in twenty twenty six. You got my vote.
Speaker 4: Well I will see, but listen. I hope you have
Speaker 4: a healthy, happy new Year, both your families too. And
Speaker 4: I'm going to keep listening and I'll see you soon.
Speaker 1: And Bruce, I know.
Speaker 2: Maryland. Best yea to you for twenty twenty five. Bye bye,
Speaker 2: call Emily and Norwood. You're next here at night Side.
Speaker 2: Welcome You've got Lieutenant Bruce of Potter.
Speaker 6: I nice to talk to you. I I first called
Speaker 6: about the topic about the scams. I am unemployed currently,
Speaker 6: but I was working for the elderly. And I have
Speaker 6: to tell you I've worked from Needham, Newton, Chesna Hill, Westwood, Norwood,
Speaker 6: lots of different towns. But this is a very heartfelt
Speaker 6: and with all of our families. I'm currently I just
Speaker 6: turned my birthday was Christmas forty four. But thank you
Speaker 6: and uh, I have to say it's a very big,
Speaker 6: widespread issue with these scams and they get you coming,
Speaker 6: going up, down and sideways. And I just wanted to say,
Speaker 6: the more exposure about it and the more we talked
Speaker 6: about it, and exactly what was being said about anybody younger,
Speaker 6: you know, if you work for somebody, if you have
Speaker 6: a neighbor, if you have family members, just like email,
Speaker 6: phone calls, it's something that it can be very tricked
Speaker 6: about and trips up on. My mom has fell prey
Speaker 6: to it, a lot of family members, a lot of
Speaker 6: my ex clients that I used to work for. Emails
Speaker 6: is a big thing, phone calls. And also I wanted
Speaker 6: to introduct to Bruce that I have a married last name,
Speaker 6: but my former name with Downing, so Hugh Downing and
Speaker 6: Leo Downing, I know my uncle my father yep, yep.
Speaker 6: So I just wanted to stay hi and just reaching
Speaker 6: out and thank you for being an advocate for this topic.
Speaker 6: And that's kind of It's it's a very the more
Speaker 6: exposure even in the mail, like it came up about
Speaker 6: the I R s like they'll only reach out to
Speaker 6: you and the male, but like females and phone calls
Speaker 6: and especially the elderly or target like and it's just
Speaker 6: it's really upsetting to see people lose their life savings
Speaker 6: thinking somebody is being taken advantage of and or held
Speaker 6: hostage or in jail and they're losing everything.
Speaker 3: So very very set Also is that so many people,
Speaker 3: so many elderly and even you younger people, when they
Speaker 3: have been scammed, they don't tell anybody because they're embarrassed
Speaker 3: of what happened. And so the true statistics we can
Speaker 3: never get because of the people that will never even
Speaker 3: come forward and make that information known to us. But again,
Speaker 3: you know, you are an advocate. It's everybody's going to
Speaker 3: be an advocate for somebody else, especially you know, those
Speaker 3: who we know that a potential scam victim. We just
Speaker 3: got to talk to them. You talked about you know,
Speaker 3: like na, this time of year, there are a lot
Speaker 3: of people, you know, there's nothing worse than loneliness and
Speaker 3: someone and helplessness. And this time of year, you know,
Speaker 3: the holiday season, it's nice to reach out to someone.
Speaker 3: If you have an elderly neighbor, you might want to
Speaker 3: check in on them during a snowstorm. Just want to
Speaker 3: be able to have that sort of contact with them
Speaker 3: that they know that they're not alone. And that's the
Speaker 3: biggest thing of all because you know, we always talk
Speaker 3: about protecting our property, but first and foremost, we have
Speaker 3: to protect ourselves and each other. And if we don't
Speaker 3: protect others, you know, property is one thing again and
Speaker 3: scams one thing, but we got to make sure that
Speaker 3: we're staying connected to people that have no connection to others.
Speaker 3: And there's nothing more important than that. You know, many
Speaker 3: times they do statistics and a lot of people think
Speaker 3: that suicide rate this time of year is among the
Speaker 3: highest during the holidays. It's actually not. The University of
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania did a study a couple of years back and actually, uh,
Speaker 3: December is of all the months, it's the Uh it's
Speaker 3: the lowest month of suicides. They say Jules the first.
Speaker 3: But again, helplessness, loneliness, it's just, uh, it's just something
Speaker 3: that people need, that connection and if we can give
Speaker 3: it to them, and you know, part of it advising
Speaker 3: them about these scams, having them contact you, contact the police,
Speaker 3: that will go a long way and uh stemming uh
Speaker 3: the tide of all these scams.
Speaker 6: And I think that's a good point to be made.
Speaker 6: Is like you can live next door or across the
Speaker 6: street from somebody. But that's like the outreach. It's on
Speaker 6: you and it's on all of us.
Speaker 2: Is the like, Emily, are you still there? I don't
Speaker 2: know what is cutting out calls? That's a thing a
Speaker 2: time this has happened. Well, anyone else who wants to
Speaker 2: call in. I've got maybe eight minutes left with Lieutenant
Speaker 2: Bruce Apothecar here on night side and time in temperature
Speaker 2: ten forty eight thirty five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Life Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Bruce Hypotheca is here, and he and I have
Speaker 2: done radio good Grief forever, and I honestly can't tell
Speaker 2: you if this is your fourteenth or twenty fourth appearance
Speaker 2: with me, Bruce. One of those numbers is close one
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 3: And let's just hope the uh, the numbers that I
Speaker 3: played tonight on the Mega Megas will be the winner.
Speaker 3: So me and you'll go on vacation.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no no, I've got the winning numbers.
Speaker 2: I've got the I've got the winners, and then you
Speaker 2: and I will go on vacation and buy property for
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty million dollars something as an island
Speaker 2: or a chunk of land would be for sale. You know,
Speaker 2: we'll be the Kings.
Speaker 3: I was selling the clerk tonight as I was playing
Speaker 3: my numbers. You know, it gives you a few minutes
Speaker 3: to dream. That's the you know, the chance of winning.
Speaker 3: We know what the chances are, but at least it
Speaker 3: gives you a few minutes to dream. And nothing better
Speaker 3: than that.
Speaker 2: I know they say you have one and three hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty million chants. No, I have a one on
Speaker 2: one chance me and luck.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 3: I always wondered, well they if somebody came in there
Speaker 3: to the lottery headquarters and gave them the three hundred
Speaker 3: and something million dollars to cover every number, would they
Speaker 3: take it? Or do as every number have to go
Speaker 3: through the machine.
Speaker 2: I'm sure somebody tried to play every number. I don't
Speaker 2: know how long it would take for that machine to
Speaker 2: spit out the ticket with one to one two three
Speaker 2: four five six one two three four five seven one
Speaker 2: two three four five eight whatever.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it could be done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think though.
Speaker 2: Every Tuesday and every Friday, Yeah, before before we go
Speaker 2: off down dream Land Lane, is there another scam that
Speaker 2: we haven't touched on just with the final three minutes
Speaker 2: of having it before go before I have to go
Speaker 2: to news.
Speaker 3: Well, you know there's always you know, it doesn't happen often,
Speaker 3: but it does happen. You'll have somebody knocking your door.
Speaker 3: They'll say there with the city water department, the city
Speaker 3: sore h with one of the utilities, and they need
Speaker 3: to check something in your basement and is you know,
Speaker 3: you go in and you take them down the basement. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: someone else comes into the home. Off they were with
Speaker 3: two to begin with, one stays upstairs and then when
Speaker 3: they leave, next thing you know, you've had some property
Speaker 3: that was stolen. But again, let anybody in your house.
Speaker 3: Never comes to your house and comes to your door
Speaker 3: and they want to get in, has to see their identification.
Speaker 3: And then if they were the city water to pope,
Speaker 3: contact the city water, contact the police, debout and say
Speaker 3: there's someone here that is claimed to be a city worker.
Speaker 3: It won't take the Office of more than a couple
Speaker 3: of minutes to get there and can verify if the
Speaker 3: story is correct. And meanwhile, if you tell them they're
Speaker 3: gonna you're gonna contact the police before you open the door.
Speaker 3: And you look and you see them running down the streets.
Speaker 3: Good chances a scam.
Speaker 2: There's another scam that starts the same way. They pull
Speaker 2: up to your house and the signage on the truck
Speaker 2: says paving or or tree trimming service ever, and they
Speaker 2: claim they just did your neighbor's house around the corner.
Speaker 2: They've got extra material and they thought maybe with the
Speaker 2: look of your property, you might need some paving in
Speaker 2: your driveway. That is a scam. Don't fall for it.
Speaker 2: You call when you want the people to trim your bushes,
Speaker 2: you call when you want paving.
Speaker 3: Right because all they'll do is, oh, yeah, there's certain
Speaker 3: names are the people that go around and do that.
Speaker 3: But what happens, uh, you just say, you know, say
Speaker 3: they'll love extra you know, asphalt and all they really don't.
Speaker 3: They they're basically painting your driveway with the I can't
Speaker 3: remember the word now, the seiler. So they're just sealing
Speaker 3: your driveway and it's basically painting it. And you wrote
Speaker 3: five hundred thousand, two thousand.
Speaker 2: Dollars right because they I'll give you a bonus deal
Speaker 2: right now because I'm here and I've got the stuff
Speaker 2: on my truck. Don't fall for that, but people do
Speaker 2: want people fall for that.
Speaker 3: What people need to do is everybody's pretty well educated
Speaker 3: now about going on the internet. You go on and
Speaker 3: you type in current scams, how I'm how, how am
Speaker 3: I going to be scammed? You do your own homework
Speaker 3: and there's a plethora of information out there that will
Speaker 3: help protect you and you won't be surprised by anything.
Speaker 3: And again, let your family, your neighbors, friends know. He goes,
Speaker 3: you know, you saw, you know, maybe you want to
Speaker 3: go on the incident. Let me just say about a
Speaker 3: new scam I saw out there, because eventually you'll get
Speaker 3: that phone call, and if you already know it's out there,
Speaker 3: you won't be surprised and you can just hang up
Speaker 3: on them.
Speaker 2: Bruce May twenty twenty five. I tell this to everybody
Speaker 2: I meet, be your best year ever. You deserve it.
Speaker 3: So to you, my friend and Trauba people are getting
Speaker 3: out there in uniform. God bless you make it home
Speaker 3: safe tonight, and good night everybody.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant Brusa Poskar, thanks for being here with me on
Speaker 2: night's side. One more hour ago, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about breakfast cereals with Topherrellis. After these messages and news.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature ten fifty eight thirty five degrees