Posted on 10/29/2020 12:57:35 PM PDT by pabianice
pure bullshit from a Biden turd.
The wording indicates the speaker is not an original English speaker and the English he learned is British. We don’t talk about barristers here. We call them trial lawyers.
I am a registered Democrat so if I have some time I listen to them and say yeah a lot and promise them I will send a hundred dollars next week when I get my EBT recharged. Needless to say, I don’t write any checks and they can’t cash the phone call.
Just remember this— THE IRS NEVER CALLS YOU!
They sound like Hungarian.
And have names like Robert Smith and William Johnson.
Plus fake Social Security number calls.
Got one this afternoon.
I got one yesterday. As soon as I heard the words INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, I knew it was a crock, and I hung up.
We keep getting mail from some outfit that calls itself the voter information service. In it, it just says to vote for all the Democrats on our ballot. I went to their website and ripped them a new one and told them to take us off their mailing list.
It’s quite normal for the IRS to request payment using iTunes gift cards.
That should never raise suspicion.
Sometimes I answer in another language. Throws them off.
There are a number of YouTubers who make a practice of contacting the scammers, playing along as the scammer works through his script and connects to his computer (while running a virtual machine), and while this is going on, he deletes vast numbers of files from the scammer’s computer and quite often sets a password that locks the scammer out. Some have actually gathered enough evidence to be reported to the police in India and have gotten scammers arrested.
Channels like ScammerRevolts, kitboga, Scammer Payback come to mind, but there are many. Search for “scambaiting”.
If it’s a scammer...all bets are off.
Just last night got another one of the “your social security account has been suspended! You must press 1!”
Despite watching many YouTube videos, I am still terrible at trying to just suck up their time. (a few weeks ago, I got hung up on when I wouldn’t give my name “you called ME..you should know”). SO, last night I was all prepared to give my name as Scarlett O’Hara. :). But at the last second, I went with Scarlett....Trump. “As in Donald Trump. Actually..yeah...he’s my father”. The guy says, “Donald Trump f***ed your mother?” WHOA! I told him he needs to look in the mirror. No decent job leads to this.
“When it’s live I curse them out”
Those boys on on the clock to produce. If I am bored I string the conversation out as long as I can. When they ask for a credit card I tell them it may take a couple of minutes to find it. I then give them a string of totally false numbers. They will immediately try to run the card. It will not go through. I apologize and say I must have given it to them wrong and repeat as long as they do not realize I am just messing with them.
If you are bored and have time on your hands it is fun. If not I just tell them to F Off.
When they call I ask them if they are interested in an Extended Warranty on their vehicle.
Zhang Fei wrote: “Doesn’t your phone have caller ID? If you don’t recognize the number, don’t answer. Let it go to voice mail. Look up the number on Google. If it’s an official number, it will show. If it’s important, they will leave a message.”
Not really, they can ‘spoof’ their number making it appear to be any number they want it to be. I put my phone on ‘do not disturb-except for those in my contacts list’. Everyone else goes to Voice Mail. As you say, if it’s important, they will leave a message.
Check area code in your call log .... scammers commonly use 833, which is not assigned to any geographic area. You can safely block & report those calls using area code block, that blocks all calls with that area code.
Actually what some of them do is to steal the number from the last call and enter it into their own caller ID. I once called the number back on a call ID and the lady that answered told me to stop calling her. They were using my caller ID. These people are evil.
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