I like when I get a call about lowering my credit card interest, or the computer virus pop up, or any of the scams out there.


I like to keep them on the line for as long as I can! I have recorded some of them too! I had one place on the line for over an hour! Poor Saps!


But some can be scary! Like the (one I sadly have yet to get) IRS one! They call and say "you have a warrant out and you will be arrested unless you pay in the next 2 hours!" And they want you to go to the bank and get some amount out and then go to a store (they will tell you what store to go to too) and buy some kind of vouchers. Which is basically giving them cash that you can not get back.


Another is I got a call from Direct Tv (with their actual number too) and they say if you buy google play cards they will give you free tv for a year or something! (I had those guys on the line for over 3 hours total)

So I just got a call from a phone number that was the same fist six digits as my phone number and it says it is from Marriot. So I hang up and call the number back. I talked to a sweet older woman. I told her someone was using her number to call people. A few moments later her son calls me! And I explained it and he said he gets calls with that are the same first six digits too! And yes Marriot knows about it and there is not much they can do! So I guess next time they can I will have some fun with them!


So anyway do any of you have fun phone scammer stories?

I usually ask the computer scammer guys if their parents know they raised a thief.

i don't really have time to spend so i tell them i know they're scammers and i'm going to report them then hang up. sort of a rudely blunt approach i guess. but then again there are people in this world who have nothing better to do then harass others so i think courtesy is wasted on them from the git go

Yep they try with the tax man scam here too. They scammers phone and say you owe $$$ and if you don't pay the police will come and arrest you

Income tax folks here don't call you. If they want to get in touch they send you a letter.

Same with banks.

Latest scam is they call you and ask if its you and you say "yes" and then they take that "yes" voice of yours and use it to steal your identity.

And the usual Nigerian email scam is still going around

I am not in a hurry to answer the phone. If I don't know you I won't pick up, leave a message go fuck off and die to those scammers

luv4u said:

Latest scam is they call you and ask if its you and you say "yes" and then they take that "yes" voice of yours and use it to steal your identity.

That one is getting a lot of attention in the U.S. as well. First off, I don't know many that will answer a number either unknown or blocked from caller ID. My Macbook "rings" when my iPhone does, so I see the number right on my computer when someone calls. I can usually reverse phone lookup before it goes to voice mail. If it's a scammer, someone's probably reported it already, and there's a flag on the search results (whitepages, and other sites are good for finding that out). So in short, I don't pick up numbers that aren't already in my phone & have a name with them.

The Nigerian thing is truly funny to me, that after all this time, it still goes on. Hell, there are still 60 year old women on Dr. Phil every few months who have emptied out their savings and retirement and have a second mortgage on their homes to support someone stuck in another country, needs exit fees, needs this money or that or whatever.

I've been endless fake profiles on dating sites, and they're almost always the same. The sentences always start with "am looking", instead of "I am looking" or "I'm looking". It's a run on sentence, and goes on about "finding someone to share my life with who loves adventure and values honesty and trust and is loving and trustworthy and wants to explore the joys of life" - pretty much repeating themselves, and overstates the fuck out of it. And they're always in the military, in Afghanistan, but coming "back to the states soon" instead of just coming home.

Let's remember that the photos they use of people in the Army or Marines - those people are victims too. The people whose pictures they stole are victims as much as the old lady on Dr. Phil.

As far as the phone thing - It's better to just ask "who is this?" or "I cannot hear you" or "no", or not answer the phone at all.

TrivialPursuit said:

luv4u said:

Latest scam is they call you and ask if its you and you say "yes" and then they take that "yes" voice of yours and use it to steal your identity.

That one is getting a lot of attention in the U.S. as well. First off, I don't know many that will answer a number either unknown or blocked from caller ID. My Macbook "rings" when my iPhone does, so I see the number right on my computer when someone calls. I can usually reverse phone lookup before it goes to voice mail. If it's a scammer, someone's probably reported it already, and there's a flag on the search results (whitepages, and other sites are good for finding that out). So in short, I don't pick up numbers that aren't already in my phone & have a name with them.

The Nigerian thing is truly funny to me, that after all this time, it still goes on. Hell, there are still 60 year old women on Dr. Phil every few months who have emptied out their savings and retirement and have a second mortgage on their homes to support someone stuck in another country, needs exit fees, needs this money or that or whatever.

I've been endless fake profiles on dating sites, and they're almost always the same. The sentences always start with "am looking", instead of "I am looking" or "I'm looking". It's a run on sentence, and goes on about "finding someone to share my life with who loves adventure and values honesty and trust and is loving and trustworthy and wants to explore the joys of life" - pretty much repeating themselves, and overstates the fuck out of it. And they're always in the military, in Afghanistan, but coming "back to the states soon" instead of just coming home.

Let's remember that the photos they use of people in the Army or Marines - those people are victims too. The people whose pictures they stole are victims as much as the old lady on Dr. Phil.

As far as the phone thing - It's better to just ask "who is this?" or "I cannot hear you" or "no", or not answer the phone at all.

Or pretend to speak another language

Horsefeathers said:

I just plain don't bother. I have my regular known contacts set to ring through and all other unrecognized numbers go straight to voicemail without ever ringing. Even on my business line. And it works just fine. Good hell, I don't even want to talk to people I know and like on the phone for an hour or three (!!!), much less scammers and cold callers.

Same here. Seem too many rely on politeness and I hate my time ruined over something so meaningless. If you know me, you leave a legimate message outside of that it's delete.

http://money.cnn.com/2017...index.html

Police in India have arrested a man they say was the ringleader of a network of call centers that allegedly swindled thousands of Americans out of millions of dollars.

Sagar Thakkar, 24, was detained in Mumbai after arriving on a flight from Dubai on Saturday.

"He was the mastermind of IRS scam call centers in the state of Maharashtra and one center in Ahmedabad," said Mukund Hatote, assistant commissioner of police in Thane, just north of Mumbai.

Hatote said Thakkar stands accused of extortion, cheating, impersonation, criminal conspiracy as well as violating India's communications and tech laws.

News of the scam broke last October when Indian police raided nine calls centers -- eight in Thane in Maharashtra -- and arrested more than 70 people on suspicion of posing as IRS agents to steal cash from U.S. citizens.

Workers at bogus call centers used American accents to impersonate IRS agents. They told their victims that they owed back taxes and would risk arrest if they hung up or failed to pay up.

Phunny vibe.

luv4u said:

TrivialPursuit said:

That one is getting a lot of attention in the U.S. as well. First off, I don't know many that will answer a number either unknown or blocked from caller ID. My Macbook "rings" when my iPhone does, so I see the number right on my computer when someone calls. I can usually reverse phone lookup before it goes to voice mail. If it's a scammer, someone's probably reported it already, and there's a flag on the search results (whitepages, and other sites are good for finding that out). So in short, I don't pick up numbers that aren't already in my phone & have a name with them.

The Nigerian thing is truly funny to me, that after all this time, it still goes on. Hell, there are still 60 year old women on Dr. Phil every few months who have emptied out their savings and retirement and have a second mortgage on their homes to support someone stuck in another country, needs exit fees, needs this money or that or whatever.

I've been endless fake profiles on dating sites, and they're almost always the same. The sentences always start with "am looking", instead of "I am looking" or "I'm looking". It's a run on sentence, and goes on about "finding someone to share my life with who loves adventure and values honesty and trust and is loving and trustworthy and wants to explore the joys of life" - pretty much repeating themselves, and overstates the fuck out of it. And they're always in the military, in Afghanistan, but coming "back to the states soon" instead of just coming home.

Let's remember that the photos they use of people in the Army or Marines - those people are victims too. The people whose pictures they stole are victims as much as the old lady on Dr. Phil.

As far as the phone thing - It's better to just ask "who is this?" or "I cannot hear you" or "no", or not answer the phone at all.

Or pretend to speak another language

Que?