Scam alert

[hanks73340]

Been getting them for the past 2 months. Deleted them as usual.

 

[SlingLow]

Heh.....

Just got a call a few minutes ago saying I had a $10,000 fine owed to the City of Tacoma that required my immediate attention.

I then asked for the case number for said fine.........and he hung up on me.....

Guess I must've asked the wrong question......I am soooooooo disappointed

$10k? What did you do - shoot the Mayor? Wait, that should be a reward (just a little joke internet police).

All of my BS calls are displayed as "Potential Spam", so when I do answer the call, I always greet them with "HELLO POTENTIAL SPAM, would you like some potential eggs and toast to go with that?"

99% of the time.....I get a great big click in my ear.....

My phone says 'suspected spam'. Very useful. Haven't answered one and have only gotten a couple legit voicemails.

I answer, sheriff’s department can I help you?
CLICK

I'm so doing that. Except I'm FBI.

 

[kiwigtx]

Block all calls coming from Nigeria and problem solved. That was easy.

I tried doing that a couple of years ago here and Telecom told me it was extremely difficult to block certain countries form my phomne.....I bet it isn't difficult - just a PITA fpr them to do with no reward.

I just look at the caller ID and number....our landline gets scammer calls all the time. The number always starts with 00 and mostly 0061 0r other countries. (61 is Australia but they try to be smart and make it look legit)
My boys race to the phone to see who can be the most abusive to scammers. Quite funny sometimes listening to them......and the sound of disappointment when the scammer hangs up.

 

[erickson]

I know someone that just got scammed for $40,000.
Text was from the FBI. And they fell for it.
Elderly couple.

 

[Big bill]

I see the DMV is giving out your cell # now. Got this text today.
It’s amazing that my cell # is connected to my License tag. Lol

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I have got the same one the other day.

 

[Hey-O]

I've gotten them a few times. I've also received the one where you grandson needs money, now. Guess how that went.........

 

[turbine68rt]

As soon as I see any grammatical/ punctuation/spelling errors, it goes right in the spam folder.

 

[Budnicks]

I see the DMV is giving out your cell # now. Got this text today.
It’s amazing that my cell # is connected to my License tag. Lol

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