Staff Report</p><p>If you ever get a call from someone posing as a relative and claiming to be in jail, do what one mountain senior citizen did.</p><p>She finally called her grandchild's cell instead.</p><p>Had it not been for a failed money transfer, a 71-year-old Coarsegold woman could have been out as much as $2,500 in cash.</p><p>She said she received a call from a man claiming to be her grandson.</p><p>He said his voice didn't sound familiar because of a broken nose he suffered in a wreck.</p><p>He claimed that he'd been arrested after attending a wedding reception in Bolivia.</p><p>He needed Grandma to wire money to finance his release from jail.</p><p>Believing his story at first, she actually tried to make the transfer but it failed.</p><p>When the caller called again, she decided to call her grandson's cell to find out what was going on.</p><p>When the call went through, she learned that he was never in Bolivia and had never called for cash.</p><p>Madera County Sheriff John Anderson is issuing yet another warning about the scam.</p><p>Never wire money, no matter how good the story may sound. Instead, he says, phone family first.