Agreed.
My father got a random call the day his mother died. I was at his house when he got the call. He said, “This isn’t a good time, my mother just died.” Then he hung up and said “I always wanted to do that, but at least today it was true.”
I get these all the time - your social security number has been suspended. It’s always an automated call, though. If it was a real person I’d say - so, you are saying the government can no longer track me or my income?!
I’m on the “Amazon has charged you $$$ for shipment of items to XYZ, please call if this is not correct.” Getting it a couple of times a day.
Haven’t had the SSN scam pulled on me yet–it’s coming, I’m sure…
I’ve been seeing that for “Windows” and Norton Lifelock instead.
I got both the recorded messages about the warrant for my arrest (they think I’m Aibibe Nelson for some reason) and I have gotten live calls.
I once asked when the SSA moved it’s headquarters to Mumbai. The guy started screaming at me if I didn’t cooperate I was going to be apprehended by the local constabulary. I said I didn’t know what country he was in but I hope Trump nukes it and he is crazy enough to do so. With the female spammers I get real nasty, asking about their sex life and such.
HEY! These fuckers called me and they are criminals. I see no reason to be polite or civil to them in the least.
I received the “your Social Security number is being suspended” call a year ago or so, while I was at work. I was bored so I answered the call and pressed the button to talk to someone. I started asking them to tell me my Social Security number. If they’re suspending it, surely they know what the number is, right? And what does it mean to suspend a Social Security number? I’m still at an age when I’m paying into the system.
I’ve gotten calls in the past where the scammer tells me that because the IRS has been unable to find my address to collect the money I owe and their letters were returned, they’re sending marshals to my house any moment now to arrest me. Not so bright.
It isn’t that they aren’t too bright - it’s that they are calling lots of folks looking for the not so bright ones that won’t notice that little inconsistency.
I’ve gotten the one that that sherif received. There was a warrant out for my arrest for back taxes .
Hell, I have the FTC, DEA and the CDC on my tail about my taxes (according to one of the calls I got).
Ooooh the trifecta!
My dad gets a lot of Windows scammers. He doesn’t even have a computer.
I have heard that the inconsistencies are deliberate: they weed out the smart people so that the scammers only have morons to deal with.
I got one this morning from an agent telling me auto insurance rates were coming down, and that he assumed I have auto insurance. I got rid of him by telling him I don’t have a car (I have two).
I got a Social Security scam just the other day where there was a robocaller reading the script, and they literally read the word “it” as “I.T.”
I laughed and blocked the number. Even though I know it was a fake number.
We get so many fake numbers using our landline’s exchange that we’ve blocked the entire exchange. We don’t know anyone who has the same exchange and we’re not going to call ourselves.
I get the Chinese Visa one a lot, which is entertaining as I’m not quite sure what I’m being threatened with as I don’t speak Chinese.
Also, they play lovely background music.
If you’re getting the calls on a cell phone, I highly recommend that you download the Robokiller app. It’s either $30 or $40 a year, and worth every penny. I haven’t gotten a call in months!
Now I’m hoping a scammer will call so I can say “Aujourd’hui, maman est morte”.
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(First line of the Albert Camus classic L’Étranger… a lot of scholarly debate has been done over that short sentence…)
It was the second sentence that brought is home, though.