The number 1 indicator of a scam IMHO is that they don’t use your name, it says customer or nothing. So if your name is not stated it is 99.9% a scam.
One day it won’t be scammers.
It will be a Wall St backed company promising “efficiency” to the municipalities and will take over. And then they can do what they want.
This is an important post! People need to know about these scams. The government isn’t doing near enough to alert the public, in my opinion.
I guess I’m in the minority here. But I rather enjoy taking these scam calls, as evil as they are.
I’m always very polite with these scammers. Always! And I answer all their questions. Yet they inevitably get angry with me, and end up disconnecting the call. I wonder why. Maybe that’s because I only speak to them in Hungarian - an obscure language I’m quite good at.
I suppose I’ll be bested the day a Hungarian scammer calls me. But that hasn’t happened yet.
If they come to my door I know something’s wrong as I handle all my utilities online.
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AT&T provides data servers to the NSA, CIA, FBI. Does anyone really think hackers and Ransomeware operations are not known and green lighted by those agencies?
Sounds exactly like the IRS scam.
And US presidents.
If people PAID THEIR BILLS the scammers wouldn’t be so effective.
“Scammers seek entry to homes to perform repairs or energy audits, but with the intent to steal valuables and siphon off “personally identifiable information that just happens to be out in plain sight,” according to the website.”
So do plumbers, electricians, AC repairmen, etc. And no, it’s the old man who owns the van you have to worry about, it’s the high school kid ‘helping him’, who’s supposedly ‘learning the trade’. And many times it’s not even the high school kid you see, but rather his ‘friends’ who are tipped off and make the hit.
The sure-fire way to defeat this kind of scam is just to pay your bill on time.
And if say you are on too tight a budget to pay it on time, you shouldn’t have any money to be scammed.
The same process can be repeated in the case of a bank transfer, wire transfer, or money transfer; contact the relevant firm and seek a reversal of the transaction.
If the customer paid via cash, the individual must get in touch with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at 877-876-2455 to have the package intercepted.
Any payments made via cryptocurrency are irreversible, the FTC warns.
Thanks for posting...
About 3 months ago a young lady knocked on our front door saying she had to see our electric bill. She stated that all she had to see was the back of the bill to see if we are paying to much. She was wearing a plastic ID around here neck. I told her if there is a problem with my bill tell the electric company to contact me by mail. She said “fine” and left. Whenever I get scam calls I tell them I will talk to them and answer their questions but only if I can talk like Mickey Mouse.
There’s a lot of dumbass people...let the get scammed.
I got two phishing attacks yesterday. One was a text purporting to be from Florida’s SunPass saying I owed $279. (Click here to dispute.). The second was a email saying someone had posted a $1279.52 charge on my PayPal account. (Click here to dispute.)
If someone shows up on the porch demanding a payment for anything, knock them on their ass and throw them in the rose bushes. Got a wasp nest on the eaves? Throw that, too. Got a dog or a goat? Pile it on. If the sheriff doesn’t show up, it was a scammer.