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[kevin37b]

We had a message on our home phone from the IRS telling us we owed 4965$ from last year . Obviously not well speaking and rude . I ignored it . 20 minutes later my cell rings , same people . Then the house phone rings again and I picked it up . After hearing the same line of **** I informed her that the IRS does not call anyone . You will get a registered letter . I said thank you for calling the FBI and we are looking at you right now . She hung up .

 

[Citydude]

They left a message on my phone that they (the IRS) have filed a suit against me and call them I'm ASAP! That was a few months ago. Just havent got around to calling them.....

 

[Industrial Toys]

I heard about such scams on the radio. Don't remember if it was in Canada or the States. Too bad Society doesn't deal with such people in the harshest manner possible.

 

[EarPlug]

Info from the IRS directly

Phone Scams Continue to be a Serious Threat, Remain on IRS “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for the 216 Filing Season

 

[buckeyefarmer]

IRS calls me all the time....

 

[oosik]

I've seen the same scams as noted by EarPlug in other articles on the internet. Its a dirty, rotten shame that folks haven't informed themselves about these scams.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My dad gets calls about needing his computer fixed. He doesn't have a computer or internet....

 

[EddieWalker]

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.

 

[DT86]

I've been eaten up with this kind of calls lately. For me it seems to have started a few days after calling around for new cable / internet providers.

 

[comancheflight]

I always google numbers and never answer ones I don't recognize. (Usually numbers have been reported by others and you can see the scam listed on the internet withough ever answering your phone.) I figure if it is important they will leave a message. One particular number I googled about a week ago others had already reported and when they returned the call the phone company said that it was not a working number. So I called and sure enough it said the same thing, not a working number..so threw it in the reject list..wierd the efforts people will go through to get out of work.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I get a call about once a month from someone wanting to buy my time share. They don't quite know what to say when I tell them Great! I didn't know I owned one! They usually say they will take me off their list. I always have, and still do, think that time share is a big scam in itself.

 

[T_e_r_r_y]

IRS calls me all the time....

Is her name Ima Rotten Scoundrel? or I'm Really Scum?

T.J.

 

[kevin37b]

I guess I am old and dumb .Technology has brought us into the future with cell phones , texting , laptops , drones ? Seems like we are going backwards as far as human beings . There is no love out there anymore .

 

[Howling]

Currently over 3/4 of calls my business phone are telemarketer. I answer with business name. Even when they ask for me I ask who is calling, what is call in regards to. Pisses some of them off that they can't bully/push thru the gatekeeper (me) to get to me. Or ask them to speak name clearly so the FBI wiretap can get it correctly.

 

[JamesHW]

We just don't answer the phone unless we recognize the caller, figure if it's important they'll leave a message. Every now and I'll go ahead and put on my best Abe Simpson imitation. I'll go ahead and act confused and engage the caller with tales about weird Abe Simpson type stuff, the point being to keep the person on the phone for as long as possible, but never seem to find that Start button on my computer they want me to click. Almost had to take my wife to the doc she laughed so hard...

 

[Ed of all trades]

Back when my mom was only in her upper 80's she had one call and they got to the point of asking for her bank info. She said she had her money in the river bank and that she did not have any numbers to her account she just went and got her money. After about 5 min of that they figured out that she was messing with them and hung up. Ed

 

[DT86]

Back when my mom was only in her upper 80's she had one call and they got to the point of asking for her bank info. She said she had her money in the river bank and that she did not have any numbers to her account she just went and got her money. After about 5 min of that they figured out that she was messing with them and hung up. Ed

That's hilarious. I'm not that witty at well below 80.

 

[Xfaxman]

Caller ID can be programmed to display any number they want.

I often get calls displaying my name and my phone number. I don't understand their reason for that, since I know right away that it is a Telemarketer.

Got a call yesterday, guy says "we are installing security systems in your area ----------". I said where is my area? He hung up.

 

[davesl708]

I keep asking questions and talk in circles and when they ask why I keep asking the same questions I tell them I need to keep them on the line long enough to get a trace.

 

[DT86]

Caller ID can be programmed to display any number they want.

Got a call last week from a local cell phone number. I try to answer calls like that due to the fact I might have cows in the road or neighbors garden, ect. and also have business cards out for mowing and such. Well, this time it was some Indian guy going on so fast I couldn't understand but about every third word.

I called back and got some very nice lady who was doing her grocery shopping and had no idea what I was talking about. I felt a little like a d**k head for calling back, at least I hadn't opened by cussing which is what I'd planned until I heard her obviously local dialect.