I think this is the same scam that left a voice message on my phone.
They actually never used the term ‘social security’, but instead used the word ‘social’, as in there has been suspicious activity on your social.
In a just world, robocall scammers should be put to death.
I haven’t got this one yet, but I did get a voicemail telling me my Windows license had expired. My wife and I had a good laugh listening to that one...
These scammers have honed in on me during the past week. It started with one call where some foreign guy tried to convince me he was with the Medicare “Pain Department”. I told him to never call my number again. They then began calling my number once or twice each day, each time from a similar, but different, number. You could tell they were using call spoofing. I reported it, and I just let the calls go to voicemail. It looks like they are starting to give up now.
The penalty for sending fake numbers to a caller id must be public hanging.
After a few of these calls, I decided to answer and I pushed “1”. The first thing I said was “what’s up, you called me?”
That got an instant hang up.
Himself just got this call the other night.
He laughed in their face and hung up.
/I have trained him well
Pretty easy to avoid all this. Just don’t answer the phone. If someone really wants to talk to you they will leave a message.
I got the Social Security one, but the scammer must have forgotten to fill in some of the message. It said “your Social Security has been cancelled for ....” “reasons” (in a different voice) and then gave the number to call. I think they were supposed to put in what the reasons were.
It was so lame, we replayed it a couple of times, just for the laughs!
My M-i-L got the same type call, as did my step-dad. We all live in a community that has a high number of retirees, so it’s definitely a target area.
I get those types of calls regularly.
I just ignore numbers not on my contact list.
On the rare occasion it’s legitimate, they leave a voice mail message and I call them back. Mostly appointment reminders or a notice that something I ordered at a store has come in.
ANYBODY get this one ???
Jerome H. Powell (jeromhpoo002@bora.net)
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Saturday
Office Hours Monday To Saturday:
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board
Building houses the main offices of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
It is located at 20th Street and Constitution
Avenue, N.W., in Washington
Re: Important Notification
Re: Urgent Notice
The recent launched Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH) by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Finance Statistics (TFFS) This joint launch is by the Bank for International
Settlements (BIS), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank and represents efforts to
They haven’t yet found my cell phone, but my land line must ring 20 times a day. I rarely use it, and have connected it to a fax machine just for grins. Let the telemarketers get an earful of that squealing.
The Social Security System its self is a scam.
Government agency’s contact you by mail, never by phone; if an “agent” does try to scam by asking for information you tell them to tell >you< what your information they see on their computer screen. But in any case, just hang up.
Thanks for the reminder. I’m retiring soon so this is good to know. TBH, I would have laughed if anyone told me my SSN was being “suspended”. Don’t you need to be dead first?
I have a call blocker on it. The ring tone tells me its robo call. When the bad call comes, it is a tom-tom western movie theme ring. You know the one, the music they play in the John Wayne movies when the Apache’s are over looking the trooper column.
I’ve had my cell number since they were available but I’m about to change numbers next week. I get an average 10-15 robo calls daily.
I got that call on my cell phone last week, and on my landline phone a couple weeks ago. Both numbers that the calls came from are now blocked on both of my phones. Yea, I know, the scammers frequently change the caller ID of the number from which they are calling (spoofing the caller ID using VOIP).
How does anyone fall for these scams?
Maybe those with dementia or some state of Alzheimer’s but not using common sense for anyone else is plain stupidity.