ATT recently added caller ID… sometimes we can see who is calling…the scammers have no shame!
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Amazing on your phone. How in the world can ATT tell it is a ‘gas inspection’ scam? My phone does say ‘Scam Likely’ as Caller iD but does not say what type of scam it is
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Beats me! But that was very funny! It was, indeed, a scammer calling. 
Text message today: "Due to the pandemic, Hulu is giving everyone a free 1-year subscription to help you stay at home. Get your (link).
Assume it’s a scam.
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Ya’ think? 
I was informed that my new iPhone was delivered. Color white. I didn’t click on the link
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Funny you mentioned that new iPhone @bookworm! I apparently got one, too. 128 I guess? Message swiped and deleted.
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My daughter apparently has a black iPhone waiting for her somewhere. One she did not order. I’ll let her know she’s not alone. 
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So that same woman who was scammed out of $15-30,000, was ready to enter a new scam. She received a call from “publishers clearing house” that she won. They just needed her banking account #, in order to deposit the check. Fortunately, she is in rehab, so couldn’t provide the info. She told everyone she won, which would make up for the other loss.
(In case anyone cares, I’m in touch with the family to figure out how to protect her.)
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Wow. That is really scary, that one person can be so gullible.
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Ours wasn’t a phone or email scam, but an in-person one. Our area suffered a lot of storm damage this week. This afternoon I was checking our security cameras and saw a guy parked on our driveway taking photos of our home.
I called H and he went to see what was going on. A guy from GA was soliciting roof replacement jobs. He guaranteed that his company would get our insurance to pay for full replacement. He also said that our shingles were recalled and production of them stopped (years before our house was built.) H strung him along for a bit (masked, standing 6’ away) just to see what other claims the guy would make. He said he was already doing a job for a neighbor (gave a common last name), but then he couldn’t remember the name of their street.
We actually have no roof damage. The guy also identified our roof shingle manufacturer incorrectly and was wrong about the company he named having discontinued this type of shingle in the color he named.
I posted a warning to our neighbors. I hope no one is taken in by such predators.
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Are they going after old people in FL?
Yesterday got a call that there was suspicious activity on my Chase Amazon card. They knew my name and location, and asked if anyone in Dayton, Ohio had used my card. I was told to not log in, but they’d help me to secure my card. I wondered if they wanted access to my computer.
Anyway, I hung up and called Chase directly.
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^ was it legit the call?
Absolutely not. Chase told me that many have reported this Amazon scam. I kept asking this man, how can I get to my account if I can’t log in? “We will help.” How, I repeated several times.
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ANY time you get a call out of the blue, hang up and call the company directly. It’s almost always a scam.
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Strangley one time I got a call from State Farm Visa and it was about illegal potential usage ( it was) I hung up and called the company and sure enough they called. Still would hang up though.
I often get calls from my visa credit union that ‘suspicious’ activity has been detected. It almost always is ME trying to use the card and somehow it was screwed up, either I swiped when I should have inserted the chip, or the clerk did something and it had to be rerun. It also can be if I bought something big like a computer, so a $700 charge is not normal for me.
I have to listen to the call, pick from a couple of choices('are these your recent charges on the card? $700, $35, $807?")
I’ve also gotten the fraud detected call after buying gas. I was told the first thing that thieves do to see if the card works is buy gas from a station that doesn’t ask for the zip code to confirm.
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Credit card companies may be flagging that by noticing if the station is out of your usual area, and there is nothing else that suggests that you may be traveling to the area the station is in (especially if there are other in-person transactions at around the same time nowhere near the station).
I also had a Courtyard by Marriott charge us for room we never reserved once. I called them to find out why and they claimed H had made the reservation (in our 35 years together, he has never made a hotel reservation). Also, they used a card we didn’t physically have a copy of and hadn’t used in months. I contested it with the company and called management to complain. I haven’t returned to that hotel again!
My 80-something year old father got a call from a guy with an Indian accent offering a year-long subscription for computer anti-virus software. My father bit. I think he paid something like $59 for a subscription that would have normally cost $29. The software was perfectly legit and I made sure the subscription wouldn’t automatically renew, but my father paid twice what he should have, and he said not long after he started getting bombarded with cold calls from guys with Indian accents.