Because your a fan of Danny Kaye?
But they are the ones trying to buy them from me.
Be an interesting scam if they were sending me money for puppies I don’t have.
Get 2 or 3 a day, usually in the evening, so it goes to voicemail. Always for a different breed of dog. Even had one asking about the Great Dane I have available for stud. (I don’t have a Great Dane, much less available for stud.)
That’s weird. The typical puppy scam involves a fake breeder site that you try to buy from. You send money, they have no puppy.
The point of this scam is that she was in Hong Kong and the scammer claimed to be from the mainland government and investigating her for, IIRC, money laundering. Now we all know that neither the IRS nor the Canada Revenue Agency is not going to threaten us with immediate arrest, but who knows that the Chinese government is going to threaten Hong Kongers with?
I got an automated call from a scammer a couple days ago who claimed that my credit card (must have been Schroedinger’s since he didn’t specify) had gotten two mysterious charges that morning and if I wanted to decline them, I should press 1. So I did. “Just a moment please”. Curious, I hung on and a live person came on. “And how are you this morning?” God, I hate that question from a stranger. So I answered, “Lousy.” Next sound was a dial tone. I guess he decided I wasn’t going to play ball and saved his time. Too bad. I get this type of call regularly, but have gotten as far as where they ask for any information.
I see what you did there. Though I’ve never seen that movie.
That was weird. I received a “subscription expired” email today; when I opened it in Win 10’s built in mail system, it appeared to be some article in French. So I switched to Comcast’s mail and it was your typical Norton phishing in English!
5 “Norton” emails so far in two days. Similar content but different senders and phone numbers. Not a very smart way to scam someone.
Most likely the scammers were spoofing their own number, and ended up using yours. I used to get call-backs from people asking why I’d called them when I hadn’t, because of such spoofing.
I got a scam call yesterday that I am still trying to figure out. The first part was standard. A recorded announcement claiming that I was in serious legal trouble that I had to sort out immediately. They didn’t actually say the RCMP was on the way to arrest me. Anyway, they asked me to press one for more information. Curious what their line was going to be, I pressed 1. There was a ringing and then a man with a strong Indian accent said, “What can I do for you?” WTF? I expected to be told that I owed taxes or something and had to immediately send bitcoins or gift certificates or something. Finally, I stammered out, “You called me”. Pause. Then I got to “Does your mother know” when he hung up. What gives with these people?
it’s likely they’re running more than one type of scam simultaneously. Professionalism is seldom, if ever, their strong suit.
Maybe the scammers had been busted and the guy on the phone was a cop?
The Kentucky Medical Board is warning physicians about scam phone calls and letters attempting to extort docs, by claiming they’re about to lose their medical licenses and that they have to pay fines immediately.
A sample letter purporting to be from the Medical Board looks real enough at first glance - it even has a reproduction of the state seal showing Daniel Boone shaking hands with a used car salesman. A key to the phony nature of the letter (aside from the nonspecific nature of the supposed infraction(s)) is the bad grammar and misspellings.*
*another hint might be if the Board asks for payment in the form of Amazon gift cards.
This. We got one of these call-backs just the other day.
Since we no longer have a working home phone (we have a number, just don’t have a phone plugged into it) we don’t get these kind of calls at home - and I will only answer calls on my cell phone if I recognize the number, I don’t get that many scam calls there unless I’m in a mood to play with them.
But I’m lately getting INUNDATED with spam texts of a political nature. Often addressed to Thomas (sometimes the scam calls also ask for Thomas*). Dire warnings about the danger of the Democrats running against the Republicans and the dangers posed thereby, with the opportunity to donate funds to help find those eeeeeevil Democrats. So, um, yeah, I’m expected to click on a link in a phone message to donate. No, I don’t think I will do that.
Prior to the recent election, the spam texts tended to be Dem-leaning.
What puzzles me is that these ALL seem to be from inactive numbers. Why aren’t they using known valid numbers? Sooner or later they’ll scam someone who knows the purported caller. Or nobody will be able to make phone calls at all because their number was spoofed and got recorded as a spammer.
- Every now and then I’ll get a human calling for Thomas - or Lesley (some of the texts are addressed to her instead of Tommy). Those tend to be shady purveyors of “roofing repairs” or “auto warranties”. A sob story about how Tom or Lesley just died has pretty well stopped those, interestingly.
Do some searching. Judging by your user name, you’re a dog person. Any chance that your info or photo are being used in someone else’s scam?
I got an interesting one yesterday. The caller asked for me by name and after I verified that they were speaking to me started talking about reinstating the home security system which had been installed five years earlier. I don’t have a home security system, and have never had one. When I pointed this out, she said she would see that I was removed from their records. No attempt to sell me a system, no request for further identifying info.
Absent the strong accent, that could be clever. You are calling someone in an office who has more than one responsibility. So you need to tell him what your problem is, possibly drawing you in to the scam a little faster/deeper.
I just got a call from “Publisher’s Clearing House” in Jamaica on my cellphone. I would have played along but I started coughing from laughing so much at the guy’s broken English spiel.
I should have took the phone to my SO and have her tell him that I just died and she needed the phone to call 911.
I received a call a few months ago telling me I was being investigated by the IRS, rather strange as live in Australia, out tax department is the Australian Tax Office (ATO)
I guess he must have forgotten which country he was calling and was reading from the wrong script
A couple of days ago, I had a called supposedly from “Coinbase” telling of a problem with my account and saying that my bitcoins were in danger. I can’t imagine very many people have Coinbase accounts, so it seemed an obscure target.