Is he from Nigeria? Maybe he wants to loan you money so you can transfer millions to a Nigerian account????
I’m guessing he wanted to let you know that they had a problem with the paperwork. Maybe the village goat ate it. He was wanting you to re-apply over the phone and give him all the info he needed so you could have money.
American Finance sounds like a really thoughtful bank for doing that.
Sounds like a fishing expedition for a scam. If you don’t have caller ID, get it. Do not answer any number you don’t recognize. If it’s so important, they’ll leave a message.
Don’t give them anything.
We screen all calls anymore unless it is from a number we actually know. Definitely an uptick in 800 or 877 calls and a boatload of calls from area code 202. I figure if they’re important they’ll leave a message.
The guy hung up on me when I said this is a no call number.
Did he say his name was Peggy?
Rachel from “Card Member Services” has been calling me a LOT, but of course ther NSA cannot stop these bastards who are phone scammers, but they wanna hear what i tell my family memebers....
Do yourself a favor. Log the area code.
Do not answer if it isn’t recognized. Do you have a service that posts the number on your screen?
I suspect this is the phone scam where they are trying to get you to call them back. If you call them back, you will get zapped with a fee.
These phone scammers bother the hell out of me, The NSA is listening to all our damn calls but cannot do a g_d Damned thing about these scammers, but they wanna know what my mother ate the other day when I talk to her over the phone...
Maybe when we get a person onthe line from a scammer we should start blurting out “hot list” words for the NSA system to bring up....
Nah, they would go after US and not the &*%^&*% Scammers... Because they can easily track us and not the scammers, hell they are probably in legue with the scammers...
I once had a man at the door pretending to be a tax collector so I started yelling at him and then he left.
Later my wife said he must have been a crook.
I said: Oh...
On second thought, just let them all ring out. It will stop after a couple of months. Just for fun, pick up the phone and set it down, off hook. :^)
Have some nice background music for their pleasure.
If somebody in your world needs you, an envelope will arrive at your home.
www.thedirectory.org
There’s a good chance your caller is working out of an office in Buffalo, NY. Not too much actual work up there, but one booming “business” involves filling boiler rooms with sub-literates and having them call people to scam them. They can harm you a little by wasting your time, but they cannot do much beyond that so long as you give them no information.
And the great majority don’t. But in a high-volume calling operation, they just need to trick 1/100th of their targets into giving over credit card and/or bank account numbers, and they’re in the money.
We have a Do Not Call order, and it worked pretty well while Bush was President.
Now we get numerous unwanted calls. It seems obvious that Obama and his stooges have been bought off, and the Do Not Call orders no longer mean anything.
There is another scam where a guy calls and claims he needs to check your computer for bad files. If you let him, he will have you install a virus on your machine you have to pay him big bucks to remove.
I get letters from time to time from a debt collection company saying I owed thousands. The amount owed changes each time up or down as does the debt collection company name.
Minnesota and other states sued this company but they have many names and keep on operating.
If you answer them, you then run the risk your credit rating will be ruined as they can now claim you owe them money. Throw the letters away and hang up on the call. BTW if you settle with them at a discount they just re sell the remaining debt and it starts up again.
Ignore the calls. I do not know how you can block them as they are overseas and probably change numbers all the time.
Happened to me once. The caller said that someone from his company would come to my house to escort me to the courthouse. I told him to make sure the escort is prepared because I am a strong believer in the 2nd Amendment.
Never heard from him after that.
The number of phone scams keeps escalating. Each week I get calls notifying me of a virus on my computer, usually with a Hindu accent. And if you ask them any questions at all they don’t answer just continue on with their spiel.
And that is just one kind. The most common calls they say nothing, just disconnect, hoping that you will *69 them and be transferred to a pay number.