Anyone else been getting a higher level of scam/extortion phone calls lately?
 

I'm sure many of you know the new scam out there already.

People call your phone and try to have you call them back or they are "pressing charges" and "Fbi will arrest you" if you don't call back type deal. Its a common scam to "settle" with them under duress.

It seems to have reached an all time high lately. Lots of my friends have reported getting these calls too, so it must be just on fire like the Nigerian email scams of the 2000's.

They are normally of Indian, Thai, or Philipino decent, as determined by their accents, and weird pauses in the phone lines from overseas calling.

This particular one this morning demanded I call back, and if I didn't "i had better be careful of myself". LOL.

Since I'm pretty much a cash based character, I can assume that they got my number from any of the millions of forms I fill out on a daily basis. I maintain a throwaway phone that I use just for Internet crap signups, etc.

The ones that have called me have not been very convincing, I wonder what type actually falls for it? I'm picturing the guy "consequences will never be the same guy" as the type of person they get to give them money.

Any one else experiencing this new phishing scam first hand?

Heres some news I found on it: http://www.pro8news.com/news/local/P...129839573.html

not heard of that over here in the UK

Yeah, I got one yesterday that sounded like he was from Nigeria and I had one a grant of 7k dollars. Blah blah blah

pretty crazy. i'd call the cops if people were calling me saying such things.

Wow ....?

The ones that have called me are supposedly in the USA, but speak with a British accent.

I was about to post the same thing... However, I screen all my calls. If they wont identify themselves into the ansaphone, then they can go away. Legit people know this and say 'Hey, its Tom - Pick up the phone mate' or stuff and I do...

But any of the nuiscance calls - auto dialed etc hang up before the ansaphone finishes saying 'Leave a message' so thats fine by me.

I don't answer any calls on the "goofball" phone as I call it. It sits on a shelf in my house and I check the calls and VMs maybe once a month. This time I had three of these calls. What it means is don't ever ever ever submit real information to any forms on the internet. The only place I use this phone number is in Internet forms. Something to remind people of. Get a HO phone for your Internet form filling.

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times are tough man, people are relying on whatever they can do to pay the bills :2 cents:

I got a call the other day saying I won a $100 gas card and just needed to supply them with my info. Me, being a smart fella, knew it was impossible for me to win something that I didnt enter, so I wanted to hear this scam.

They asked questions about verifying my info, name, address, blah blah blah so I gave them all fake info. Then they said I had to pay $3 for shipping costs and wanted a credit card number, but before that, they wanted to create an account for me with a username and password. So i gave them some BS username and for a password they said to use your mothers maiden name :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

I wonder how many people they got on this? With this info, you can call the bank and request a new card sent out to a new address.

Thats more than likely Indians who had their schooling in the UK, they all talk with upper class British accents..

Im getting a 500% increase in scam e-mails over the past few weeks. Not sure its connected but it seems like every day i get 50 or so e-mails on how i won 1 bazzillion $ or my relative left me 27 million $ . If they wrote in grammatically correct English some would almost be believable .....

"mothere maden name" Nice touch.

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Yes, a sign of the times

I know its crazy. I constantly warn my mom about this kind of thing. Thankfully my grandparents don't go on the web, and they barely even answer a phone.

One of todays batch
 

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Investigation Officer.
************************************************** ************************************************** **************
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I never answer my phone unless I recognize the person calling :2 cents:

we get hit by the indians here in au

the popular one at that moment is this

you randomly phone people and tell them they have a problem with their pc

stupid people give them remote access and pay for a 'lifetime warranty' to prevent such 'problems' occuring again :Oh crap