ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 18th September 2023

Episode Date: September 17, 2023

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Vaughan heard from his Mother-In-Law!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The ZM Podcast Network. Fletchborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod. Treat yourself to McCafe coffee with my Macca's rewards. Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod. I've received some correspondence from my mother-in-law in the last week and I always say to her, don't hesitate and I won't judge you because I'm trying to keep my older people safe from scams. Yeah, nice.

There's an underlying theme reason, though, isn't there? Why? Because he wants inheritance. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if some scammer comes in and gets it all, what's in it for me? You don't get any of it. No. What do I get?

Yeah. Well, she messaged last week saying, do you think this is legit? And I was like, that is so weird. Let me find the exact. Because some of them are really, like, close. Please call the Ministry of Justice about reparation that may be owed to you. And then a phone number. And here's the case.

Quote this case number. And I was like, don't click on it. Because I didn't know. It came through iMessage. Yeah. And you know how you can just click on the number and it will dial it for you? Yeah. I was like, don't click that.

Actually dial it by hand. Because I said, that is the Ministry of Justice's's number but what would you be owed reparations for so i was like don't give them any details bank details and she's like well i'm gonna call the number yeah and quote the thing so it turned out she was robbed a house that she owned was robbed like six years ago oh yeah and And she was owed 200 bucks. Is she going to get it? Yeah. A dollar a week?

No, I think it was. God. I don't know. It was like the insurance excess at the time, basically, was what she was being. Also, it wasn't a scam. No, it wasn't a scam. I would have just ignored it.

It was a scam. It 100% felt like a scam. But I Googled the number and it all checked out. Maybe I'll give this guy from Namibia a real go then, because'm sure it's a scam but if it's not google his number give him a call yeah yesterday i got one saying this is your mother this is my mother-in-law i'm in christ church and i'm ages away from my hotel i've just downloaded the lime scooter app do i just find a scooter scan it and then ride it and then just jump off it when I'm outside the hotel? No. And you're going to scan off it? I see.

Scan the QR code to start it. And then when you get off in the app, you can click end ride in the app. Does she use Uber? Because you just use the Uber app now. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in the same thing. It's in the same app, yeah. She said, you don't have to wear the helmet, eh?

I said, you don't have to, but. Please do. Please do, because it's your first time funny how parents go full circle wear your helmet yeah wear your helmet and then i i'm not wearing a helmet told shardae and her granddaughter and robin's granddaughter what she was doing and they were all like no no no no this is the woman that falls off everything she should not be on a line scooter i said i believe in you but your daughter and granddaughters are screaming tell her not to she can't do it she's like i'm not walking miles

back to my car then she called me oh and she's like what's going on it's beeped and it sung me a little song and it says that it's unlocked and i can see the timer going up but nothing's happening i was like you gotta push you gotta push off yeah you're pushed down she's like well i can't be on the phone and do that i'll call you back back. Yeah. And then no call back. She's dead. And I was like, I should have said, like, because no call back, as you say, could be, it's all going well, I'm on the road. She's fallen off.

Or I've gone right out in front of a truck. Yeah. And then anyway, she messaged me saying, I got it. I did it. Hooray, I did it. Now, how do I stop this? Oh, my God. And I said, and it's And it's ticking up money.

Yeah, and ride. And yeah, she said it was a wonderful success. Her first public scooter. Because we call them Lime Scooters, but they're all around the world. They're just like public. Different brands. Just a different type of public transport. Yeah.

But she survived. That's pretty good. So do you reckon you'll encourage this or discourage? See, Christchurch is the perfect city for Lime Scooters. That's what I said to her. I said, you're not going to get a better city than Christchurch. And all the new footpaths, a lot of new cycleways. Yeah, I put my mum on one in Auckland.

She was like, it feels dangerous. I was like, oh, it is. Oh, yes. It is. You've got to have a lot of confidence. It certainly is. See, my dad could do one, but Christine wouldn't want to. I can imagine Bev on a Lime Scooter.

Christine would probably happily get on a lime bike, though. Oh, yeah. She's ridden many bikes in her time. Yeah, right. She'd know how to do that. Yeah. And then at the end, of course, she'd stop the ride and throw it in the ocean. Yeah.

She was real punk like that, my mum. She was punk. Yeah, she was an old punk. Would Bev do a scoot? Couldn't imagine Bev doing a scoot. I could imagine Bev doing a bit of a scoot. Maybe. I feel like Bev would only now do a scoot

because you've just doubted that she could do a scoot. Yeah, she's like, I'm going to get on a scooter. She'd just do it to prove you wrong. Yeah, she would. But just be bloody careful out there and a kind reminder to never judge or be sarcastic

when an older person asks about something. Tech. Because A, that's going to be you one day. And B, they won't come to you next time when they click the link for the Nigerian prince. It'll be too late when all the inheritance has been sent over to some bloody scammer. That's right. When they think they're in a relationship with Dermot Sweeney or whatever that guy's name was. Unless the prince, the Nigerian prince, is a relative.

Because mine's my uncle. Yeah, yours is actually your uncle. It's so crazy that I'm name was. Unless the prince, the Nigerian prince, is a relative. Because mine's my uncle. Yeah, yours is actually your uncle. It's so crazy that I'm so white. Yeah. He married into the family. He married in, yeah.