Posted on 04/09/2017 7:23:41 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Indian police said on Saturday they had arrested the suspected mastermind behind a call center scam run out of a Mumbai suburb that targeted thousands of Americans and netted more than $300 million.
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In October, the U.S. Justice Department charged more than 60 people in India and the United States with participating in the huge scam where call center agents impersonated Internal Revenue Service, immigration or other federal officials and demanded payments for non-existent debts.
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The caller always has a thick Indian accent. Who would fall for such nonsense? I guess lots of people, seeing as how the arrested man netted more than $300 million.
A few public service announcements on TV and radio might be appropriate here. Warn gullible people about this scam.
Getting rid of that criminal organization known as the IRS would stop these scams.
“Getting rid of that criminal organization known as the IRS”
+10
Not really. The same scammers will just “represent” your power, water, phone company, or your bank, or your internet provider, or, or, etc.
Gotta start somewhere.
Has anyone heard of the IRS coming to your house to talk about past due taxes?
These bass-terds tried this FBI scam on both my mother and our son who is in college this past January. Both incidents occurred within days of one another.....
My mother received a call too. Glad they found these criminals. But, where one group is rooted up, Lord only knows how many others pop up.
> These bass-terds tried this FBI scam on both my mother and our son who is in college this past January. Both incidents occurred within days of one another..... <
The very worst scammers are those that call older folks claiming to be police officers. The “officer” says that he is holding their granddaughter for some crime. Unless the grandparent wires “bail money” immediately, the “granddaughter” will go to prison.
Sometimes the scammer will even have a crying girl in the background.
Even “educated” folks like doctors have fallen for this.
I liked how they would leave a callback number in voice mail that was good for exactly one day. Their explanations as to why that was business as usual for “IRS” wouldn’t even fool a liberal.
The unconscionable refusal of the FCC to entertain practices and technologies that would eliminate these kinds of massive campaigns of fraud has finally begun to ease. They’re now in favor of aborting calls from known spam phone numbers. It’s a baby step but it’s a start.
Most recently I get calls on my answering machine (I don’t answer unless I recognize the number) about my Apple and cloud...I don’t have either.
Scared the sh!t out of our son....then he realized he hadn't worked in 2015, therefore, no taxes. It was the only year the entire time he's been going to college he didn't work.
My mother blew a very loud whistle into the phone......lol. We taught her to do that for all these scam calls and robo calls. They don't call back. I wish I could see what happens on the other side of the line though when there's a live body on the receiving end.......
I’ve had quite a few of them and I never could figure out what the advantage was to the callers or whoever was behind it. They threatened to have the police at your door if you didn’t call the number they gave you but other than that, where was their benefit? Where did $$$ come in? I made complaints about several to the FTC and they were GRATEFUL - Tee Hee!
I wouldn’t have listened if I’d answered the phone but they were always left as messages - with VERY THICK accents - INTERNAL RAVANOO......
“FTC” No doubt should have been FCC...don’t know where I’ve filed my paperwork right now but it got to the right place. I know because they THANKED ME!
I could see people falling for it quite easily. I had him walk me though what he wanted us to do, without actually doing it, and he wanted us to start the windows run command, type in a web address and then download a program from that site. It was going to be something called "Supremo.exe". It would have given them complete control of our computer. I actually called local law enforcement and they wouldn't do anything about it since I hadn't fallen for it. Stupid.
> Where did $$$ come in? <
I’ve actually looked into that, out of curiosity. The scammer tells the victim to go to a local Walmart (or a Walgreens, or a 7-Eleven, etc.) and buy a gift card. The scammer tells the victim that the gift card is an “approved payment” method.
After the purchase, the victim is told to read off the control number on the back of the card. The scammer then uses that number to drain the card.
And we’re not talking about $10 gift cards here. We’re talking about $500 gift cards.
As I found out to my cost. I purchased a plastic card regular size from a local electronic store. It was a NORTON SECURITY card. $39, It was to enter an anti-virus guard. It mentioned also "NORTON GLOBAL SUPPORT". This would walk one through the installation if one was not computer savvy. I got a phone call on applying the support service.
A voice from Mubai conned me all of $179 US funds. Norton did advertise this as a package. It was never installed and they took me for $225 Canadian funds with the exchange. Norton did not want to know. Never answered my e-mails. That company from Mumbai may have offices in Massachusetts.
I would like to know eventually what penalties these birds or sociopaths would face.?
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