Posted on 05/11/2021 10:28:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
You may have had this happen to you already, but this scam is new to me.
My wife just got a call. It was a prerecorded machine advising her that her Amazon account was being charged for $700.00 and this call was to confirm. Press 1 now if this is incorrect.
She had the presence of mind to immediately hang up.
Don’t pick up the phone if you don’t know who is on the other end.
If it is important, they will leave a voicemail.
I had a live call from a guy saying he was from a collection agency and demanding money, just shy of $400 bucks, for “blood work” that was done in 2019. The dates were very close to time I had actually had surgery, so I wonder were he got his information. I told him I would pay any legitimate charges but would have to investigate. A quick internet search showed that the calling number was flagged as a scam. The other thing is that the actual “blood work” I had was relatively cheap (around $25 bucks) and mostly covered by insurance.
Hahaha. It sounds like a line by Kramer on Seinfeld.
Answer calls with:
“Joe’s Pool Hall...Eight Ball speaking....Who in the hall do you want to talk to?”
We get that one a lot and also the one from “Apple” about our Apple account. We don’t have an Apple account. Both just go to voicemail.
I don’t answer unknown numbers.
okay...get this straight. ALL recorded phone calls, the ones that automatically dial your number, are a scam. The computer just dials each number in sequence. It HAS to be a scam because your number is being called at random!
"As far as we know, phone companies, utilities, and credit card issuers don’t maintain databases of voice recordings of their customers and use them to perform real-time audio matching to verify identities during customer service calls."
I have been getting them for quite a while.
It is fairly common. Search youtube for ‘kitboga’ or ‘jim browning’ or ‘pierogi scammer payback’ or ‘music is a rainbow’ or myriad others and you will hear people yanking them around and tracking them.
I usually at least type ‘1’ or whatever i need to get a human. The robocall costs them nothing but i at least want them to incur the cost of getting a human to answer. If I don’t have time to talk I put it on mute. If I do I waste their time or ask them pointed questions.
I used to answer with a very official sounding voice and say “This is Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are you an Illegal Alien?”
I always say the most vile things I can think of to them.
I am so ashamed (sometimes).
I have a friend who has been sucked in a few times. I finally had to tell her husband to have her checked for Dementia.
I like it! “City morgue, you stab ‘em, we slab ‘em” was always my favorite.
OK. Good to know.
Some of those guys can curse up a storm. They’re really funny!
We haven’t had the call, but our Amazon account has been hacked, and we learned it when we got emails confirming our orders that we didn’t place. We never got charged because Amazon’s system flagged the order as something not typical for us and probably a scam.
We opted for their two-step verification system for extra protection and it hasn’t happened again.
A friend of mine occasionally gets calls claiming to be from the IRS and saying that there is a problem with his “IRS account.” He says, “That’s a coincidence! I’m at the local IRS office right now. Do you want to talk to them?” They hang up.
We are calling from Windows because your computer is crying..
You are owe IRS money, you must immediately buy playstation gift cards..
Is your refrigerator running ?
I wish!
I’m officing from home during these Covid days. My work # transfers to my cell.
I have no way to know if a call coming thru is work related or a scam.
Grr.
We don’t answer calls from numbers that don’t have a name attached. If it is important, they will leave a message.
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