I believe I’ve mentioned it before, but once I came home from work early. I went inside and the phone was ringing. Caller ID showed it to be a co-worker - same department different building. We work together from time to time, but I was wondering why in the world would she call me at home? Nope - scam call.
Just got a very sincere voice message from Federal Loan Forgiveness in NC 
offering to reduce my loan or payments. Hmmm. Never had one.
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We’ve had our phone number come on our caller id. I told my husband that the dogs are probably pranking us.
Not sure who suggested it upthread, but I recently changed my iphone settings to be silent for all non-identified incoming calls. THANK YOU!!!
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I forgot when was the last time I got these kind of scam calls, but it was more than 5 years ago. They never stop doing this trick. I just looked up about these scams on Google and found many reports filed at sites like phonebook.ai since years ago until now. We need to keep spreading the word, especially to our elderly parents.
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With the issue of theft of delivery care packages mail, now that DD is a senior and lives off campus rental house with roommates. Can I still use her college address where I used to send her mail previous years?
The house is rental with porch no yard so anyone see box near street can take it.
Ask the college.
I commuted to college almost 50 yrs ago. All 4 years I had a PO box issued to me through which I received official notices, schedules, grades, etc. There was a window where packages could be picked up. Your D is essentially a commuter. As @VeryHappy stated, check into it!
New-to-me spam robocall today from the “Federal Reserve system.” “Suspicious activity” had been detected in my accounts and there was now a warrant for my arrest. Except the grammar/syntax was not as good as my paraphrase. “Press 1” to speak to law enforcement; be ready to wait on hold.
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Do you have an account (not to mention several) with the Federal Reserve? Are you Wells Fargo or BofA?
Nope. That’s what’s so weird about this particular robocall. It’s not even vaguely plausible. It’s one thing to get a call purportedly from the IRS, Amazon, etc. But the Fed?
I love the robocalls that refer to “the cops”, as if any legitimate agency or corporation would refer to the police in that way.
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Sheriff’s department (got right county) called me again Officer xxxxxx (cannot make it out nor could the auto translator) cell phone # not on sheriff’s website, no case #, ‘call at your earliest convenience’ accent very southern, not fitting our area accent… Had this happen about a year ago and sheriff’s department did not think it was them.
Just got a call from Guthrie, Oklahoma. It was US Customs wanting to let me know they found illegal drugs entering the country under my identity. I had to press 1 to get more information, but there’s no way I’m sharing my profits with them! 
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The past two days I have received two different email notifications (filtered to my spam folder) that I have been added to a Google Group. I logged into Google to check, and sure enough, I was now a member of these two different groups. I didn’t recognize any of the other members. The “About” area didn’t say anything about the group’s purpose.
I removed myself from the groups, and changed a setting so I can’t be added automatically. I can still be invited to a group, but I have to accept.
Not sure if this is a new scam going around?
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Well I’m sorry to say that my stepfather was scammed. It was one of those Amazon scams where they tell you that there was an unauthorized purchase from your account and you need to call a support number if you don’t want to be charged for it and then of course they get you to give them personal info. And they can also gain access to your computer.
A week ago my stepdad got an email and he clicked the link (that would provide him with a phone number to call for support), and called the number. He gave them his information and was on the phone with “faux Amazon” (as we now call it) for hours!). Luckily, right after he got off the phone with the scammers, I called him to say hi and he told me about his ordeal. It sounded fishy to me, so I had H talk to him and sure enough we realized he’d been scammed. To make a long story short, he didn’t loose all his money. But he came close to. The scammers did take some money out of his account but we were able to get it marked as a fraudulent charge. All in all it ended up being a huge headache. We had to cancel his credit cards, get a new debit card and checking account number, etc. And since he clicked on that link, his computer had been compromised so he had to get his whole computer wiped and get it restored with extra tough virus protection. The whole thing was an ordeal, he (and we) had to make tons of phone calls to get this all straightened out. And of course my poor stepfather feels completely let down by all this. It’s really dampened his spirits. He thinks it’s because he’s elderly and hard of hearing. But, the people at his bank told him they’ve seen people of all ages get scammed. Now, he’s afraid to go on the computer and he made us close his Amazon account. Just as well, he never used it. It was mostly my step siblings and myself who would go on to order stuff for him. I just hate to think what might have happened if I hadn’t called to say hi right then. We might not have heard from him until he’d lost all his money…
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I’ve received a few phone calls in the past few weeks with the callerID showing a large bank (Citibank, Chase, etc). I never answer these and send them to voicemail. The voicemail says something like “A $100 charge was recently made to your credit card. If you did not make this charge press 1 to dispute. Press 1 to dispute.” It’s a scam since I don’t have credit card accounts with them, but I could see someone that does have an account at the bank being taken in by the seemingly correct callerID (which was spoofed) and starting to talk with the con artists.
I think I’ve received dozens of scam types since years ago. Until now, I still get some of them, but I never answer any of them. I usually just look up the numbers on Google or some complaint boards like phonebook.ai and I just block most of those numbers.
Very strange, but not really a scam. I guess.
Every day, I receive probably ~20 spam emails. My spam filter works really well, and over an entire month, maybe two or three spam emails come to my actual inbox; the rest are captured and sent to my spam folder. Probably twice a day, I open my spam folder, glance at them to make sure nothing real has slipped through, and delete the spam messages.
Today, I just glanced at my spam folder – I had over 200 spam messages!! I glanced through them, none of them were real, and I deleted them all. What the hell happened overnight!!!
I get hundreds every day. Thank goodness for the filter.