Telemarketer scam du jour

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Telemarketer scam du jour

Meh. Then just fire shoulder-launched missiles into the 1%er's houses.

Bound to hit one eventually.

Hahahahahaha. This had me rolling.

 

[mookie1995]

Hahahahahaha. This had me rolling.

Kepler fails to realize that once you start knocking off 1%'ers in volume, HE will become one

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Re: Telemarketer scam du jour

Yep. My personal cell phone with a 906 area code gets the "neighborhood scam" calls (and ****ed off callers "returning" my missed call) and so does my work phone with a 312 area code. Doesn't matter where.

You would think there would be a way to eliminate cell phone spoofing by making the carriers check the callers MDN and MIN numbers to ensure they're genuine. Knowing the big four (soon to be three), they would charge you a monthly fee to make your caller ID have that screening feature. Kinda like Verizon already does for their existing service (furrows brow in VZW's direction for charging $2.99 a month for plain old caller ID).

Anytime a 218 number calls me, I know it's a scam. There is only one other person I know with one, and I have his number saved already.

My mom's cousin's husband used to get a ton of telemarketer calls when he owned his own business. He used to record himself screwing with them. My favorite was when a medical insurance company called and he pretended he had full blown AIDS, cancer, and was on dialysis.

They hung up pretty quick.

 

[The Sicatoka]

I just got the "power company gonna shut off your power!" scam call. (Power company ... if they only knew ... )

They said I needed to have a card to pay or lights out in an hour. Really gruff. Really scary sounding. < roll eyes >

So I told them I had a card to pay now. The number? "1900 634 5789". Name on the card? "Wilson Pickett".

They told me the card had to have more numbers. I said, "I have bad eyesight, let me get the other card ... "

" ... 86 75 309 ... name on the card is Jenny Thomas Tutone."


The line went dead. :-D