They called my parents and I think my dad talked them to death and they finally hung up on him. He loves to talk, but nobody can ever understand what he's saying!!!
Another scam they tried on my wife was to tell her they where a law firm collecting for her electric bill from 7 years ago that she didn't pay. With fines and interest, she owed just over a thousand dollars. They had her address right and the power company information correct. Probably dumpster diving, but we really don't know how they got her old information. That was before we met and she had moved twice from that address.
She contacted the power company and they reminded her that they paid her back $88 dollars when she turned off the power with them and moved in with me.
A guy on the local news just lost $40,000 to one of them because they convinced him that he had won the Publishers House thing and he had to pay the taxes before he could get the money. He is in his 80's.
I get 3 to five calls a day from out of state, and now a bunch from my area code that I never answer. Some are just looking for me to buy something, but I'm sure others are out to scam me if they can. If I don't know the person calling, I don't answer the phone. I keep my phone on mute, so I never hear it ring or ding or anything. It rings so often that I see incoming calls, but I still don't answer them.
It's the way of the world we are living in. Sad, but I don't know any other way.
