Nice try scammer but It didn't work

Don Baer

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So my phone rings and it is a recording supposedly from Amazon reporting suspicious activity on my account of $1456 and wanting to know if it was me, then I was told to press 11 to repeat it or 2 to report it. as soon as I pressed 2 Habib comes on the phone to ask me why I was calling and I told him about the recording he proceeds to repeat the same thing. While he was talking I pulled up my account on amazon to see it there was a charge which there was not so I informed Habib that I was on Amazon looking at my account and couldn't find the charge and with that he hung up....lol. I called the number back and guess what it is not a working number. Be careful out there they are getting sneaky.
 
Got a call a couple of nights ago.... the caller said he was with medical alerts, I asked medical alerts from whom... he said the government... when I told him the government doesn't call people he actually said something nasty to me... F.... you and hung up.
 
I had a colleague (when i had a day job) who trained me in the fine art of Navy Master Chief language, a job from which he retired. When I answer a spam call I use that training vigorously and that usually solves the problem. That said, they are getting more numerous as well as more sneaky.
 
Lots and Lots of scammers out there.
1) I don't answer the phone for numbers I don't recognize.
2) If they don't leave a message - good.
3) Email messages most likely have the senders email address - gmail from amazon, really?
4) I check all my accounts every morning, so suspicious charges will show up.

What really get me is they the scammers must be getting some results, because they keep doing it, otherwise I would think they would stop if they never got a response.

Are there really people out there that fall for that stuff?
 
had a similar experience Monday, was on eBay and opened another window in amazon. the screen started flashing telling me to call this number and do not shut the puter down called number and got a broken English tech and the puter was making loud noises and flashing warnings. i told the guy one answer to a question that i could make out. on puter brand then he turned into clear English. i hit the shutdown button and restarted and ran eset and malware no problems,, but never seen this before. it made me think it was over...
 
my dad gets calls like that, pretending to be amazon. he just hangs up on them. funny thing is, he doesn't even have a computer, or internet access. he told one teleturd that wanted to help his life, that he's 85 years old, house and car are paid off, has a 25 year old girlfriend, and wants to know where he can get viagra for a good price. i usually wait for the opening spiel to stop, and when they ask if i can hear them, i tell them that the job is done, but there is blood all over the place, and we think we got all of the body parts.... lol
 
Dan you are a sick individual, but I like your style! :headbang: Used to get calls for vacation get aways, always asked if there was a place to tie my horse, they would ask why, I would tell them I'm Amish. They would hang up. :dunno:
 
He called me a couple of nights ago and I was already on Amazon, so did similar with him. He isn't too bright, because he called me last week and I did the same thing with him, but this time he swore at me before hanging up.

I've also been getting a lot of emails from banks reporting that "my account has been blocked ", but I have never done business with all of these banks.

Then there are the email questionaires supposedly from Walmart, Kols, Amazon, etc. but they aren't. I'm even getting them saying that they are from "Spectrum", my internet provider. What jerks. They say that my account is blocked, but I'm watching TV and using the internet just fine.

For all of these, look closely at the sender's email address at the very top of your screen. The big companies have the sender's name followed by the actual email address business name followed by .com. Frequently what I'm seeing is that they have "Walmart" or some other business that they claim to be in parenthesis, followed by their actual email address like Walmart" Joetech@carolina.rr.com. The real Walmart email address ends with Walmart.com and usually begins with the sender's name.

The questionaires seem to all be coming from an email address that ends with .DE .I believe that this is Denmark, but they are using several email addresses that end in .DE.
The one that I got for Koles yesterday had "K.O.L.E.S" just like this in the email address, followed by their email ID and it ended in .DE.

I've been getting so many phone calls that are scams lately that I bought a cordless phone system that allows me to push a button to block the caller. There are almost 300 blocked phone numbers in it so far. Every time someone calls and tries a scam on me I just push the button, and then they have to use a different phone number next time. After a few attempts, they run out of numbers. Caller ID is necessary now, because the Pakistanis have figured out how to steel phone numbers. If you ever get a call from a company name, but they tell you they are with a different company when you answer, it's a scam call from them. Blocking the number isn't a good idea if you do business with that company that displays on the phone, but it is obvious that they are not who they say they are.

I may have to go back to putting the FAX answer tones in the beginning of my answer message on the machine. Their robot hears the FAX answer tones, hangs up, and removes your phone number from it's list. You just have to tell everyone who might want to call you to "Wait for the tones to end and then leave a message.
I once had a little audio player with the FAX answer tones on it and I could push a button to play it into the phone, but it broke. Then I found the FAX answer tone on the internet by Googling "FAX Answer Tone", saved it to my PC,. Then I played it into my phone at the beginning of my answering machine message.

So, several ways to deal with scammers. I hope they will be of help. My phone has become quite silent since I started blocking their calls phone number by phone number. My new phone does not have the FAX machine tones in the message, yet. If they get around the blocked numbers too often, I may have to resort to it though.

Charley
 
My phone has a setting that sends all calls from unknown numbers directly to voicemail - it never rings through. I will see a notice that it silenced x# of unknown calls or if there is a voice mail. So, if you're not in my contact file, leave a message.

I hate getting scam calls but the worst was when some scammer was using my phone number to spoof the caller ID. Boy did I get a lot of unhappy people calling me for a week or two! :pullhair:
 
...The questionaires seem to all be coming from an email address that ends with .DE .I believe that this is Denmark, but they are using several email addresses that end in .DE.
The one that I got for Koles yesterday had "K.O.L.E.S" just like this in the email address, followed by their email ID and it ended in .DE...
The .DE domain is Germany. But that doesn't necessarily mean that's where the email is coming from. It's easy to spoof email addresses and phone numbers. (And it's not just the Pakistanis who are doing it.)
 
just had a call from someone saying that they are the local electric company, and that it was a courtesy call, 45 minutes prior to disconnection, for a past due bill. as i know when i paid the bill, and for how much, i asked how much was the bill. he said it was for 248 dollars. i told him he was a liar, a thief, doubted his legitimacy, and told him to go directly to miami (the other place's furnaces are down for repair).
 
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