Scam Phone Call
- Thread starter jag312
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Most of these calls originate overseas despite the phony seemingly local numbers. I called my congresscritter's office, suggested Congress work with phone companies to mandate charging a prepaid $1 before linking up any call originating outside CONUS. Robodialing scammers doing thousands of calls/hour would have a large overhead, negative return on investment if they had to prepay a dollar to make a call connect. I have many friends in Europe who would not mind a $1 charge to talk to us; it's peanuts compared to the actual cost of the current call.
Young airhead taking the call thanked me politely for my concern. I have low expectations anything will happen.
There is no humor in the scammers nor in dealing with them. This is only an attempt to divert their energies elsewhere for a short time.
michael1000
US Veteran
"Your savings account has been used for questionable transactions, please give us the number and your PIN so we can clear up this matter, or we will have to freeze all your financial accounts." sh*t, i haven't had a savings account since i retired.
Caller ID is your friend, on our landline
If I don't know the number or the name I don't pick up.
If it's legit they'll leave a message.
The Verizon cellphone does a pretty good job of identifying spam. I block the number afterwards.
I have zero desire to interact with spammers, scammers, or others that should be thrown into a wood chipper for being scumbags who try to trick people into giving out financial information.
If I don't know the number or the name I don't pick up.
If it's legit they'll leave a message.
The Verizon cellphone does a pretty good job of identifying spam. I block the number afterwards.
I have zero desire to interact with spammers, scammers, or others that should be thrown into a wood chipper for being scumbags who try to trick people into giving out financial information.
Don't expect any kind of laws or rules controlling spammers from any Gov't. entity. I wonder how much money is contributed to the Gov't. official next re-election fund by the companies doing the spamming? Requests to the Gov't. officials from individuals to control/stop spammers will be totally ignored.
TexasArmed
Member
Sometimes I tell the scammers I am here just to pick up a dead body. Do they want to speak to a family member.
And sometimes I say I am a detective investigating an active
crime scene, that I will need their personal information.
And if I am on my line I say what I please. I may even tell
them I know where they live. Since many of them are
calling from a foreign country nothing seems to work well.
Complaining to phone providers don't seem to do any good
either. The ones I really despise or the ones calling claiming
to be raising funds for police, or fireman or veterans. All of
those seem to be scammers.
And sometimes I say I am a detective investigating an active
crime scene, that I will need their personal information.
And if I am on my line I say what I please. I may even tell
them I know where they live. Since many of them are
calling from a foreign country nothing seems to work well.
Complaining to phone providers don't seem to do any good
either. The ones I really despise or the ones calling claiming
to be raising funds for police, or fireman or veterans. All of
those seem to be scammers.
Anyone trying to raise funds from me over the phone almost always ask for the lady of the house. Sometimes I say I am the lady of the house and ask if they want to talk to my husband... Usually when they go into their spiel I interrupt them (which is hard to do) and tell them I give nothing to phone scammers trying to raise money..some start into their BS part trying to make you feel guilty for not helping when I hang up. One called back and left a message on the answering machine saying something about me being an A******. I also had one of the foreign(India/Packistan) callerswho I seriously could not understand say FY in perfect English before they hung up as I was laughing after saying ...finally... something I almost understoodThe ones I really despise or the ones calling claiming
to be raising funds for police, or fireman or veterans. All of
those seem to be scammers.
DWalt
Member
The "Grandson in distress" scam is so old it has a beard down to its knees.
My favorite scam (which has not happened to me in about the last year) is the bogus process server who wants me to give him $1000 (or some other significant sum) so he will "lose" the subpoena in some big lawsuit in which I will be the defendant.
I get a great many calls (apparently mainly from India) about "suspicious" activity on my Amazon account - I don't have one. Another of my favorites is a call from "The Law Enforcement Division of the Federal Reserve Bank" about suspicious activity. I usually ask to be switched to the line of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. At which point they hang up.
My favorite scam (which has not happened to me in about the last year) is the bogus process server who wants me to give him $1000 (or some other significant sum) so he will "lose" the subpoena in some big lawsuit in which I will be the defendant.
I get a great many calls (apparently mainly from India) about "suspicious" activity on my Amazon account - I don't have one. Another of my favorites is a call from "The Law Enforcement Division of the Federal Reserve Bank" about suspicious activity. I usually ask to be switched to the line of the Chairman of the Federal Reserve. At which point they hang up.
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Got some repeat calls from India. Finally I told the guy if he called one more time I was going out and shoot every cow I could find. He got very irate, called me names and hung up. He, however, has not called back.
DWalt
Member
The ones I really despise or the ones calling claiming
to be raising funds for police, or fireman or veterans. All of
those seem to be scammers.
They may be legitimate fund raising organizations, in the sense that a very small portion of the contributions that they solicit goes to some charity, but nearly all really goes to them. I just got one of those calls earlier tonight, someone who claimed that they were collecting contributions for some Police charity. I usually ask for their name, rank, and badge number, and they will always hang up.
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pittpa
Member
sipowicz
Member
Scammers spoof their number to appear as a random local number to caller ID. My area code no longer matches my real location, which makes it easy to detect scammers. I just don't answer any calls from there.
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jag312
Member
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS. I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS. Those idiots called me again to try to scam me again. How stupid do those horse's backsides be to think that I am even more stupid to forget their scam last month. I played along with them a little more this time. I have the address where I am to send the cash. I am contacting a Postal Inspector about what I believe is a case of mail fraud and the suspects' address.
The mail is forwarded from said box. Some smuck maybe getting a few bucks a month to forward. The guys really responsible will have several boxes and smucks
They've tried to scam me twice with my own phone number!
About 4 or 5 years ago on a 4th of July I got a call from someone who claimed I left a note on his car about me hitting it in a parking lot. I supposedly left my phone number so he could call me. He wouldn't tell me when or where it happened and refused to double check the phone #. He got agitated at all my questions and threatened to call the police if I didn't co-operate. I told him I thought that was actually a good idea and he hung up. I didn't catch on to this scam until later.
Still waiting to hear from law enforcement.
Still waiting to hear from law enforcement.
