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An elderly woman in Texas was seconds away from being scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars when an alert bystander called police and helped save the woman. Myndi Jordan said she knew something was wrong when she saw the woman frantically shoving hundred dollar bills into a cryptocurrency machine at the gas station in White Settlement on Thursday. 'What you're doing is committing a crime! That makes it my problem!' “She’s all bent down trying to put hundred dollar bills in,” said Jordan. "And I could hear the people on the phone and I’m like, 'Ma’am, do you know these people?' and she’s like no.” Jordan said she suspected the woman in her eighties was the victim of a scam, but she couldn't persuade her to stop shoving money into the machine. She said that woman had already put in $23k of her money into the machine. “The lady was just really, really scared she had $44,000 cash money in her hands,” Jordan added. “I said, Ma'am, I believe you're being scammed. And she said, 'No, no, no. It's the bank, I got to pay this back.'” When that didn't work, Jordan alerted the police and Sgt. James Stewart arrived at the gas station and spoke to the woman. She told him that she was being directed by a person at Chase Bank to send her money to a cryptocurrency account. KCPQ-TV obtained body camera video of the interaction and published clips of it in its news report. “This woman was just a couple of years older than my own mom and I couldn’t imagine someone doing this to her,” Stewart said. The video shows Stewart taking the phone from the woman and yelling at the scammer. "She is not clicking on anything!" says Stewart to the scammer. "Do you really want to fight this fight with me?!" "It is not your problem," says the man on the other end of the phone. "Yes, it is my problem! Because what you're doing is committing a crime! That makes it my problem!" he answers. 'The only thing that could’ve made it better is if I could’ve gotten my hands on him.' The officer said that the woman was moments away from sending thousands of dollars to the scammer and losing that money forever. "I was irritated. Not just as a police officer but as a human being," said Stewart. The woman was able to file a fraud report with the company that runs the cryptocurrency machine and will receive her money back. “It has nothing to do with vulnerability, really. It has to do with the terror and the bullying that these people do to them," said Stewart. “The only thing that could’ve made it better is if I could’ve gotten my hands on him. I would’ve loved to have taken him to jail.'" Stewart said that after the ordeal, the woman hugged him and thanked him for his help. Experts say that scammers can spoof phone numbers and people who suspect they are being scammed should hang up when they receive a call and instead call in to the company through a confirmed phone number. They said people should avoid giving personal information to people over the phone and added that institutions will not ask people to send money via cryptocurrency. White Settlement is a suburb of Fort Worth with about 18k residents. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Daily Mail went mega-viral on social media after a that Britons would be suffering under a 48-hour "heatwave" that was mocked and ridiculed online. "UK to be blasted by 48 hour 26C heatwave with five cities in England the hottest," read the missive from its official account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. 'How the f*** did they manage to truly colonize the planet.'The post was mocked so thoroughly that it garnered more than 142 million views on the platform. "This is literally the temperature we set for our home’s air conditioning," responded scientist Dr. Phil Metzger. "Retiring from YouTube and moving to the UK to start an air conditioning business. Wtf are you guys doing over there? Even broke people in the Midwest had window AC units when I was growing up. Letting the condensation drip onto you while trading Pokémon cards with the homies," replied podcaster Tyler Wine. "How the f*** did they manage to truly colonize the planet when they can’t tolerate a mild 79 degrees…," read another tweet. "When I first went to England in summer 2018, they were having a 'record breaking heatwave.' People were passing out, it didn’t rain for weeks, the ground was so dry ancient ruins were popping up. Meanwhile it was a pleasant 75 and sunny everyday. Best summer I’ve ever had," read another popular response. Others defended the Brits by pointing out that they had to suffer the mild weather with poor ventilation. "For Americans who think this is not bad, imagine if homes were old, poorly ventilated and almost never had any kind of AC, and also the humidity was 90%," responded podcaster Ed Zitron. "Listen. As an American who was living in London in 2017 with 28 years of experience in New England swamp summer..93F in a building with zero air flow - and a city sold out of fans AND air conditioning units..is not pretty. Don’t get me started on the tube in the heat either," read another response. Some even blame global warming for the alarming rise of heat in Britain to that of enjoyable room temperature in the U.S. One of the major differences between the U.K. and the United States is the proliferation of air conditioning units. As recently as 2020, two thirds of U.S. homes used centralized air conditioning, and another 22% used some other form of air conditioning. A 2021 report from the British government estimated that only 5% of homes in the U.K. had air conditioning. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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