Eighty-three-year-old Velma Roberts received a call on Thanksgiving. The caller said she was the winner of $5,000, but there was a catch.

"He said, ‘We have a certified check. We're going to bring out to you today, but we need you to put up $3,000,’ ” Roberts, a Bayou George resident, said.

That $3,000 was insurance for the $5,000 certified check. She told the man she didn't have $3,000 and the man asked, “How much money do you have?”

"I might get up $3.00 with my nickels, dimes, and pennies, but I said I don't have that kind of money," Roberts said.

Roberts said the man then told her she would only have to pay $1,500.

"I said, no, I don't hardly think so, that's a little bit too much money and I don't understand this. This is a gimmick and I am not going to fall for it! He hung up," Roberts said.

Roberts says she isn't letting anyone pull the wool over her eyes, especially if it's a scam, and often times the elderly are targets of these scams and become instant victims.

But for Roberts, she's a football watching granny who isn't falling for their tactics, and she says if she ever met these people face to face, watch out!

"Man, get out of my face. I don't want nothing to do with you. You're nothing but a scammer. Leave me alone," Roberts said.

So the lesson here, if someone calls you and what they're saying sounds too good to be true, odds are it probably is.