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Church Point woman warns parents about disturbing spam call
It turns out he was interested in more than selling car insurance.
CHURCH POINT, La. (KLFY)-- A Church Point woman is warning other parents about a disturbing spam call. She told the spammer she was 15 years old, hoping he'd hang up.
It turns out he was interested in more than selling car insurance.
"If I told them that I was 15 years old, maybe they won't want to sell me car insurance or some sort of extended warranty. Who wants to talk to a 15-year-old?" Jay Bernard questioned.
Bernard was right. The spammer became interested in something else.
"He said, 'Well, what grade are you in?' I say, 'I'm in 9th grade.' He tells me, 'I'm in 10th grade, but I haven't graduated yet.'" Bernard shared. "I'm thinking to myself, dude you sound 30 years old. You are not in 10th grade."
She added, "The next thing I know, he's telling me all about how we can be friends, and I kept insisting. I don't know you."
Still, Bernard said he pushed, saying he wanted to contact her outside of the call.
"Do you have Snapchat and Instagram and TikTok? Do you have what's app? I kept saying no to all of these things, and I kept repeating, 'My parents won't let me have that. I'm not old enough. I'm only 15.' And he just kept pushing it. He wanted any social media he could possibly get," Bernard said.
"That is so super creepy. Really, what would have happened if I was a 15-year-old and didn't know any better and actually gave him all of my social media information?" she added.
Bernard said she's sharing her story so other parents with young kids can teach them how to handle similar situations.
"A lot of times parents don't think about the fact that their kids are also getting these phone calls, and not all of them know what to say," she said.
News 10 reached out to the Better Business Bureau in Acadiana for tips. One big tip is that you can disable a phone's location. Most apps automatically track a user's location.
If you have an iPhone, you can see which apps are tracking you. To see this, go in your settings, go to privacy and security, then press location services. Here, you can see all of the apps that are tracking your location and disable it if you choose.