A quick-thinking Canadian grandmother turned the tables on a pair of would-be scammers who tried to take her for thousands of dollars this week.

Windsor, Ontario, police arrested the two men after 74-year-old Bonnie Bednarik set up a trap of her own. The two scammers tried to steal some $9,300 in a “grandparents scam” aimed at the elderly. But Bednarik called police, who set up a surveillance operation outside her home and caught the scammers, along with the spoils of previous schemes.

At a press conference with police on Thursday, Bednarik recounted the conversation she had with the scammer, who called her on Wednesday pretending to be her grandson. “I said, ‘Who is this?’” she recalled, via the CBC. “And he said, ‘Come on. It’s your grandson.’”

“He said he was in jail,” she continued. “He said he got into an accident with his friend, Dave. It was Dave’s car. He found pills in the glove compartment. He was arrested, and he was in jail, and he needed the bond money. … And he had a few tears, and he told me he loved me.”

The scammer said he needed $9,300 Canadian, about $6,800 U.S., for bail money. It was the third such call she had received in a year. Bednarik sprang into action. She addressed the scammer by a name that was not her grandson’s, then bought some time by telling him she needed to call her bank and make sure she could take out such a large sum of money all at once. The scammer said he’d call back in 15 minutes. Instead of calling the bank, she called the police.

“And then I bought another hour because I told him my husband wasn’t home, and I needed the car to go get the money,” she said. Police then set up “static surveillance” around her home. When the two scammers showed up to Bednarik’s house to collect the cash, police intercepted and arrested them. They then recovered two more packages with money from two previous scams, a police press release stated.

“I was so happy to hear that they caught them,” Bednarik said.

The two suspects have each been charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000.

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So-called “grandparent scams” target elderly citizens and have become common in recent years in the U.S., as well as Canada. “Grandparents often have a hard time saying no to their grandchildren, which is something scam artists know all too well,” a public service announcement from the FCC states. “Scammers who gain access to consumers’ personal information – by mining social media or purchasing data from cyber thieves – are creating storylines to prey on the fears of grandparents. The scammers then call and impersonate a grandchild in a crisis situation, asking for immediate financial assistance. The callers may ‘spoof’ the caller ID that appears on the recipient’s phone to make an incoming call look like it’s coming from a trusted source.”

Both Bednarik and local police officials urged others to call police when they think they are being scammed. “I want people to call us so that way, we know what’s going on, and then obviously we can take whatever course of action we’re going to take,” said Sgt. Rob Durling of the Windsor Police Service’s financial crimes unit.

Analysis of 5,000-year-old human remains from Central Europe strongly indicates evidence of horseback riding, which better explains the central European humans’ known migration history.

Some 200 remains of bronze-aged humans, which belonged to what is called the Yamnaya people, were collected from museums across Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. They were analyzed for known markers of horseback riding, according to the Associated Press. Experts of the study say there are six clear identifiers of horseback riding which include unique wear marks on the hip sockets, thigh bone, and pelvis, the article said.

The study, originally published in Science Advances, noted that there is highly debated evidence of horseback riding dating to as old as 3500 B.C. in modern-day Kazakhstan, with perhaps slightly more formidable evidence dating to 2000 B.C. in the Third Dynasty of Ur in Mesopotamia.

Of the remains analyzed, five showed signs of being horseback riders. “There is earlier evidence for harnessing and milking of horses, but this is the earliest direct evidence so far for horseback riding,” said Alan Outram, University of Exeter archaeologist and outside observer of the study.

Similar to looking at bones for evidence of horseback riding, experts have found evidence of humans consuming horse milk by analyzing dental remains.

The Yamnaya originated in what is modern-day Ukraine and western Russia, and within a few generations they migrated as far west as Hungary and as far east as Mongolia, said Volker Heyd, University of Helsinki archaeologist and co-author of the study. The findings of the study provide additional context for the relatively quick migration.

“The spread of Indo European languages is linked to their movement, and they reshaped the genetic make-up of Europe,” Heyd said.

Given the small percentage of bones that showed clear signs of horseback riding, it is unlikely that the Yamnaya engaged in combat on horseback. However, the AP article notes that it is more likely the Yamnaya used horses in more subtle ways that contextualize their migration, such as better communicating with other tribes, forming alliances, and managing cattle, their economic staple.

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Molecular archaeologist Ludovic Orlando, who directs the Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse in France and was not a part of the research, praised the findings. “This is about the origins of something that impacted human history like only a few other things have,” he said.