Phone scams
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Today, I get a phone call on my cell.
"Hello, this is Henry at so & so credit card.
We have had some suspicious activity on your credit card and need to verify your purchases.
Can I have your social security number for verification purposes?"
Henry, let me check with my wife, as she handles all that stuff. And don't you already have the account number and all? After all, you called me about the account activity.
"Well sir, if you can give me your social security number to verify this is your account , I can check and let you know what purchases."
You know Henry, let me get a call back number and my wife can deal with it.
"Sir, we can handle this right now over the phone."
Well Henry, you do realize I don't even have one of those credit cards? Scamming people to get their social security numbers is the lowest form of life.
"Click"
ROFL!
"Hello, this is Henry at so & so credit card.
We have had some suspicious activity on your credit card and need to verify your purchases.
Can I have your social security number for verification purposes?"
Henry, let me check with my wife, as she handles all that stuff. And don't you already have the account number and all? After all, you called me about the account activity.
"Well sir, if you can give me your social security number to verify this is your account , I can check and let you know what purchases."
You know Henry, let me get a call back number and my wife can deal with it.
"Sir, we can handle this right now over the phone."
Well Henry, you do realize I don't even have one of those credit cards? Scamming people to get their social security numbers is the lowest form of life.
"Click"
ROFL!
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
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I'd tell them they need to pay me to take my kids back. ROFL!
Call me in 8 hours, you'll be ready to pay me to get rid of them. LOL!
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
.....crap
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Male in Indian accent
Hello, blah blah blah
Me
Why do you guys keep calling my phone?
Him
This is a service to lower your credit card interest rates.
Me
This is fraud, why dont you find a real job
Him
Go f*ck yourself in indian accent and hangs up.
Me
Rofl....
-- Winston Churchill
"LET'S GO FRANCIS" Peter
Couple years ago, we got a call purporting to be from a public defender in Las Vegas, saying grandson Wade went to Vegas for a bachelor party, got arrested for drunk driving on the way back, is in jail, needs bail, asked the PD to call us. Says Wade's in the worst jail in the state, needs to get out immediately. Lawyer's going to put him on the line but he might sound funny cause he's already been beat up by other inmates. Supposed grandson mumbles to "Grandma" that he's alright but not for long locked up with that crowd. Bearswatter calls me asking "Should I send money?" "That's not Wade" I say. "How do you know?" "They all call you Nana; not Grandma." I advise her to call Wade's wife who reports he's at work. Scam.
Gal who owns this business, her Dad's old and dotty. He falls for everything from psychics to Microsuck support. Sends them all his money.
A recorded message with an Indian accent.
This is the US treasury dept. blah blah blah
press 1 to speak to an attorney....1
Indian woman said US treasury, you need a lawyer.
I asked her what presidents face in on a 50 dollar bill?
Click.
Really? I was just getting started!
Few hours later some guy calls asking to speak to my wife - again by name. He didn't speak very well nor very smoothly like you'd expect a salesperson to do but he said he wanted to offer my wife a reduced rate on the subscription to a magazine she likes.
I knew she likes the magazine so I listened to his pitch. It sounded okay so I agreed to renew it for the reduced rate. The guy said "Great. Here's my supervisor who will complete the order".
Now the smooth talker comes on the line, makes a little small talk, and asks for my credit card number. I told him his timing was extremely bad, that I was standing in line at the pharmacy and mumble, mumble, and I hung up. It was easier than telling him to send us a bill and I didn't have to talk him out of anything.
The good Lord watches out for fools like me.....
They somehow got hold of a magazine with my wife's name and address on the label and built their sting around that. Don't fall for a similar scam...
"You have just won $50,000!
All we need you to do is deposit a small sum of $500 to open an account at our bank, so we can then transfer the money to your account."
Sounds legit.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
All they need is a credit card and I'd have 30 days to review the contract and cancell if I didn't find it useful.
So I ask, "which vehicle is this for?"
Your vehicle.
"Ok, which vehicle, the car?"
Yes, the car.
"Ok, what extended warranty company is this?"
Vehicle Processing Center
"Never heard of them."
Well, not everyone knows all the warranty companies.
"ok, but since you said it's for my car and I don't own any cars, I own trucks and the warranty has been up for years, you slipped."
Click.
Awe damn, I don't think they liked me none.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Hello, is this Mr. xyz? Can you hear me? Are you there?
Never say yes even to acknowledge you are who you are.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
A guy set-up "Lenny" ...... "Lenny is a hilarious set of very convincing recordings designed to fool telemarketers into thinking they've called a real person."
For those of you more technically inclined, you can forward spam numbers to Lenny from your phone. Instructions here: https://toao.net/595-lenny
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Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Back when I was a kid and we recognize a telemarketer or scammer on the caller ID, my brother and I would both pick up the two house phone at the same time so that it only sounded like one person answered. I'd play the role of interested consumer asking them questions and overall just leading them on. Occasionally, my brother would break in while they were talking a mumble out some for of vulgarity or another. They'd pause, perhaps ask if I said something to which I would always say "I didn't say anything, please continue" or "I'm sorry. I just sneezed."
We'd mess with these people for hours until they'd just hang up.
one on my work phone.
It was the "IRS" and I'm behind on my taxes and they've issued a warrant if I don't send them a prepaid card that can be bought at Walgreens.
Oh my, we can't have that. What shall I do?
When I asked if I can just send them a check, they told me I needed to get this done right away.
So I asked them if they were calling the correct person. They said yes. I then asked how they got the number, they said they pull records of people and they can get their personal cell phone numbers.
I then asked what the name is, they told me that they need my name to verify that they are talking to the person who they are looking for. (Oh, they are good.)
So then I told them that if they are after the person who's phone this is, they are gonna need a really big warrant, cause the phone belongs to the State of Oregon.
Click.
Oh, but I was having fun with this.
Earlier I got a call on my cell phone telling me it was my mortgage company and that I only made a partial payment on my mortgage and I needed to make up the payment, because they will foreclose immediately if I don't get the $324 caught up immediately.
Oh, that sounds serious. How do I take care of this?
They told me they could take my credit card number or I could get a prepaid card from Walgreens or Walmart (I see a pattern).
Oh my, I don't have a Walgreens or Walmart anywhere near and I don't have a credit card.
Well, now they tell me I could go to a store and get a Western Union and wire the money.
Oh no, we don't have one of those either. I'll have to go see my caretaker and see what to do. What number do I call you back?
Then he asked if I was retarded.
I told him, listen you little puke, I haven't had a mortgage in 5 years and you're the idiot that is trying to scam people. Try and tell me I owe money on my house, that I owe nothing on?
Click.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.