Scam phone call.
- Thread starter chuck
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years ago, back when I answered my work phone (poor and needed the work) I got a call from one of those law enforcement journals.... claiming to be the S.C. sheriffs deputy magazine or such... telemarketer went on and on.... I kept telling him no... finally I said I would consider it and send me a copy to look over... he said okay he would send me a copy and to prove we talked on the phone please give me your birth day... I know by todays standards that would be a big No Way...but this was way back then and even before Al Gore created the internet.... and so I gave him my birth day. Month or so later I got the magazine in the mail and realized it was published in Fort Worth Texis... did not even look in the cheap little paper back thing... just threw it away.....then I started getting bills for some advertising in it... I can't remember if I called them or they called me but had some guy on the phone wanting me to pay up... I finally said let me talk to your supervisor... he probably just handed the phone to the guy beside him... I explained what happened and that I had not authorized any add... he then asked if a certain date was my birthday and I said yes and then he said, "Now Mr. Blume you are a man of your word aren't you?... this is one of the few times in my life where I pretty much lost it... I gave this guy on the phone a demonstration of one of the few things I learned the year I went to the Citadel....he got a serious cussing before I hung up on him.
Pat-inCO
Hawkeye
Immediate answer should (must?) be, HEY, No problem.chuck said:
I'll go to my local PD (or SO) and write them a check!
Then hang up.
One of my sons worked for a state government years ago going after con artists and scammers. He said that these telemarket scammers are often contracted prison inmates doing the calling, including where they imply that they are law enforcement officers. No one should ever give money or purchase anything based on an unsolicited phone call.
Pal Val
Buckeye
I once got a phone call soliciting donations for the "Veterans' widows". I told the guy my aunt is a veteran's widow, could they send her some money? The guy hung up.
A call? Lucky you. I get four or five of these a week, every week, and have for a year or more.chuck said:
I just lay the phone down until I hear the dial tone, and then hang up. I like to waste their time--I'm saving someone else from getting a call.
bobski
Hunter
scam phone calls are not the same as a prank phone call.
GA Cracker
Blackhawk
Snake45 I like playing it up and keeping them on the phone as long as I can as you do. I will make up all kinds of fictitious information and act like they are really doing me a big favor and I appreciate them, especially auto warranty solicitors or and especially any with a foreign accent.
Then I tell them if I could get my hands on them I would like to knock their teeth down their throat and beat the double dog hell out of them and maybe I kept them from scamming some innocent person.
I was able to get the Postal Inspectors to intercept $30,000 bucks my father's oldest 85 year old brother shipped Registered Mail due to a Postmaster friend letting me know. The employees knew me and my family because I had worked there 8 years before starting in management. We don't know for sure how much he had already mailed off but Uncle Veda told me he was getting a new Cadillac delivered the next day. The Inspectors interviewed the culprits he was sending the money to but said they couldn't be prosecuted because he willingly sent the money. His 3 children all lived about 300 miles away and our mutual cousin's husband was President of our local bank and helped us legally secure his funds.
Recently I saw a TV program about professional scammers and how much money they made and it was UNBELIEVEABLE AMOUNTS on a daily basis.
Then I tell them if I could get my hands on them I would like to knock their teeth down their throat and beat the double dog hell out of them and maybe I kept them from scamming some innocent person.
I was able to get the Postal Inspectors to intercept $30,000 bucks my father's oldest 85 year old brother shipped Registered Mail due to a Postmaster friend letting me know. The employees knew me and my family because I had worked there 8 years before starting in management. We don't know for sure how much he had already mailed off but Uncle Veda told me he was getting a new Cadillac delivered the next day. The Inspectors interviewed the culprits he was sending the money to but said they couldn't be prosecuted because he willingly sent the money. His 3 children all lived about 300 miles away and our mutual cousin's husband was President of our local bank and helped us legally secure his funds.
Recently I saw a TV program about professional scammers and how much money they made and it was UNBELIEVEABLE AMOUNTS on a daily basis.
bobski
Hunter
scams involve money.
pranks involve pride.
pranks involve pride.
