For the last month I have been receiving one to four texts per day on my cell phone. Fill out this customer satisfaction survey and you have two minutes to send us your bank info to transfer $1 for S&H, then we will send you a new I phone, or Apple table, or.........
Or it is an apology from Amazon and they want to send me $400 credit, just give us your bank info. Or any number of other back stories. But they all ask for a bank transfer of $1.
Each time the I block the number on my cell phone. But their random number generator has billions of options, some of them actually belonging to my neighbors.
Last week I got one about my SS account is going to be locked. I played along until a live person came on the phone. "This is John at Social Security. What can we do for you today?"
I answered, "You tell me, you called ME."...........All I heard was a click.
My personal best was the guy telling me he needed me to turn on my computer so he could fix my Win Op System. I was on the hiway on my way home from work. I managed to keep him on the phone for over twenty minutes as "I am almost there, I will get the computer turned on in just a minute." The guy finally figured out he was being played and cursed at me then hung up.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
Someone tried that same scam with some close friends. They didn’t fall for it, but it did cause them some worries until they contacted their family members. I’ve had the Social Security Office threaten to shut down my SSN due to some kind of suspicious activity four or five times in the past 6 months! Funny how nobody there really speaks English very well and has a thick Indian accent! You think they’d hire Americans first! 7mm
"Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is." � Wesley Pruden
I get calls from a computer with a woman's voice speaking chinese.
I get calls from a computer with a woman's voice speaking English.
I get calls where I answer, say, "Hello." there is a delay and then someone gets on who cannot pronounce my name.
Then there is some guy in India who wants to help me fix my computer. He says he represents Microsoft.
I had a relative call up to wish me happy birthday, but had been drinking, cussed me out and hung up.
I get calls from my grandkids when they swipe their parent's phone. They want me to make them some toys.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
They can be bold, once he realized I was dicken with him, had one threaten to come to my house with an AK, he also knew my name and city........ kept him on for a few minutes and every so often he would just say BOOM........... probably 'cause I kept insisting that he speak to me in real English not that 'Pakistani - Farsi' crap.................
Reported this one to the FEDs............. they never called me back.
"...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867
NEVER call any number they give you. One of the scams uses numbers that automatically charge hundreds of dollars when called. And the phone company will not take those charges off your bill because you did actually make that call.
You can no longer rely on "known" numbers because they spoof the number they're calling from. I once got a call from my OWN number.
On our land line, I installed a CPR Call Blocker V5000 device. It comes with a preloaded list of 10,000 known scam numbers, and allows me to instantly block 5,000 more with the click of a button. I'm up to 316 now. Calls from truly odd area codes I block without answering. Ones that just might be legit I answer, and if it turns out to be bogus, I just press that big red BLOCK NOW button. Once blocked, if that number ever calls again, the device simulates a dead number on my end after the first ring.
(If I accidentally block the number of a friend - which I have done - I can go back and unblock.)
I was sitting at my desk in the office on time when the "electric company" called to tell me they were at my house to turn of the electricity.
Hmmm, peek out the window. Nothing.
"I've always wanted to know, what is it like to be a liar and a thief?"
Why would you say that, I'm from the electric company
"no, you're not. You're a crook. What do you tell you children when you go home at night? Daddy was such a GREAT cheat and crook today, you should be proud?"
(feebly) Sir, we are going to cut of your electricity......
"no, you're not. I wonder, when you go to your Grandmother's house for her birthday, what do you tell her? "Grandma, I'm such a great thief and a liar, I am everything you've ever dreamed I would be..?"
I kept this up for a good 10 minutes, until he finally hung up on me. If just one of these loser call center creeps walks out on the job because of me messing with him,, it'll maybe slow them down just a wee bit.
Got one the other day claiming to be ATF or DEA, I don’t remember. Anyhow, apparently my personal information was used to pay for a rental car that was found along the border full of drugs, blood, and illegal guns. The only way to clear up the problem was to buy Target gift cards and read them the numbers over the phone. I was driving home from Illinois so I played along for over an hour. I talked to four different people who were supposedly from different federal agencies, one of which was supposedly a supervisor. All gave callback numbers, and the one I tried worked. I’m not sure how anyone would believe that the Feds are taking target gift cards as payment, but they obviously do. I checked it out online and it is one of the most successful scams currently being run. Obviously the elderly make up the bulk of their victims.
Call from a guy who says my computer is causing problems in Florida. I know it’s a scam, but play along in order to waste his time. Says that he can fix it, but I have to log onto my computer and go to special web address. That’s were I refuse because I know that web pages can load viruses onto your computer.
IF you do happen to answer a call and it turns out to be from a live telemarketer or scam caller, your only response, if any, should be that this number is on the "Do Not Call List", therefore you obviously have no regard for obeying laws, so what ever your purpose for calling me is, you aren't to be trusted, and then hang up.
The current scam going around in my parts is a non-official number calling you up to say your Social Security is locked up due to fraud, and prosecution is about to commence. However, if you call the number listed, they will generously expedite your case.
If my SS were compromised...my Identity fraud protection would have notified my post haste.
They can be bold, once he realized I was dicken with him, had one threaten to come to my house with an AK, he also knew my name and city........ kept him on for a few minutes and every so often he would just say BOOM........... probably 'cause I kept insisting that he speak to me in real English not that 'Pakistani - Farsi' crap.................
Reported this one to the FEDs............. they never called me back.
Be tempted to tell that one "Great, I ain't been in a good gun fight in over a week!"
The ones I like ask me if I have my computer on. In my best shaky old man voice (which is getting far to easy!), I tell them "No, I'm out in the yard. Can you hold while I go in an turn it on?" That is good for at least 5 minutes. Then when then tell me to hit the "Windows key", I have to look for another few to find that, asking them "Is that the one with four colors that looks kinda like a flag? (very old Windows symbol.)" More time looking. Then tell them "Oh! I remember! That was on my old computer. This one's a Mac."
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