Scammers beware

[sesfw]

I've had it ........ up to my eyes.  I'm starting to fight back

My spiel for now until I perfect a new one.

'I am the casting director for adult films.  What are you wearing?  Are you wearing a thong?  Can you dance?  Can you pole dance?  Tap dance?  Ballet?  Can you get to Los Angeles in time for an audition by 10 am tomorrow morning?

You are not eligible for the film .............. click


I've discovered if you start asking them questions it throws them off their written speech.  Places the people on the phone on the defensive.


Now I want to start a fundamentalist religious talk.   Can you help me?  Any suggestions?

[Tennesseer]

Jul 21, 2021 17:51:48 GMT -5 sesfw said:

I've had it ........ up to my eyes.  I'm starting to fight back

My spiel for now until I perfect a new one.

'I am the casting director for adult films.  What are you wearing?  Are you wearing a thong?  Can you dance?  Can you pole dance?  Tap dance?  Ballet?  Can you get to Los Angeles in time for an audition by 10 am tomorrow morning?

You are not eligible for the film .............. click


I've discovered if you start asking them questions it throws them off their written speech.  Places the people on the phone on the defensive.


Now I want to start a fundamentalist religious talk.   Can you help me?  Any suggestions?

Come up with some outrageous claims about God and Jesus and you.
You should be good.

Also babble in a made up language as you are speaking in tongues.

[The Walk of the Penguin Mich]

Jul 21, 2021 17:51:48 GMT -5 sesfw said:

I've had it ........ up to my eyes.  I'm starting to fight back

My spiel for now until I perfect a new one.

'I am the casting director for adult films.  What are you wearing?  Are you wearing a thong?  Can you dance?  Can you pole dance?  Tap dance?  Ballet?  Can you get to Los Angeles in time for an audition by 10 am tomorrow morning?

You are not eligible for the film .............. click


I've discovered if you start asking them questions it throws them off their written speech.  Places the people on the phone on the defensive.


Now I want to start a fundamentalist religious talk.   Can you help me?  Any suggestions?

Check out the book of Revelations.  Lots of good stuff you can use there.

[sesfw]

Also babble in a made up language as you are speaking in tongues.

Hmmmmmmm ........ this has real possibilities 

[Tennesseer]

[kadee79]

Or, you could do like one guy did...pretend to be Lt. _____________ from homicide.  Who did you say you are?  Who are you looking for?  You know this person?  Where were you at 10pm last night when the murder was committed?  I need your name, address & place of employment & a number where you can be reached at any time.  I may be calling you for more information about this person who was murdered & your relationship to them.....

And by that time they are scared and confused and most hang up when he asks for a number to reach them.

[Tennesseer]

While many y of these scam calls originate in the USA, many also originate from overseas especially from Southern Asia.

I get a chuckle out of the callers who state their name is Edward, Timothy or Ralph but have the most Hindi sounding of accents.

[Opti]

Jul 21, 2021 23:27:01 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

While many y of these scam calls originate in the USA, many also originate from overseas especially from Southern Asia.

I get a chuckle out of the callers who state their name is Edward, Timothy or Ralph but have the most Hindi sounding of accents.

I hang up on them. I don't have the patience for that. At work, I give minimal info if I expect they are scammers and/or sales seekers we have no need of. 

[Deleted]

The scams I get are typically on-line- I accidentally accept a Friend request from someone whose FB account has been duplicated and immediately get an Instant Messenger greeting telling me they won big in some sweepstakes and they saw my name on the list of winners, too.  I also get regular e-mails form someone pretending to be my priest who wants to hand out gift cards for one reason or another and wants me to go out and buy them.

I like to string them long- I'll tell the "priest" that it would be my privilege to be with hm when he gives them to the recipients, where should I meet him, which staff members are the cards for since I don't want us to miss anyone, etc.  Sometimes I even offer to buy twice as many as they ask for!

Then I ask them a question only the real person would know- whose funeral was the most recent at our church, who was a priest who previously served there, etc. 

It is fun to be retired.

[jerseygirl]

We just get calls with a computer generated message- maybe 4x day?
Most frequent is need to extend warranty on a car I sold 5 years ago

[TheOtherMe]

I have both my FB and Instagram locked down because I get tired of the bitcoin I can make you reach people, the half nude profile photos and whoever trying to friend me.  

Fake David Crosby sent me a PM asking for money.  I told real David Crosby about it and he said he doesn't do such things and do not send them money.  I knew better but I wanted him to know someone was asking people to do that.  He did put out a tweet saying don't fall for that bs, that he does not ask fans for money.  Just buy my records.

[happyhoix]

I got a new one at work the other day, something saying my car had been found abandoned on the side of the road and they traced the I’d number back to me - please click on this for details.
Then, at the end, ‘Maybe should send manager?’

Deleted from mailbox, then went into trash folder and deleted it again.

I wish we could push a button when you get something like that and explode the computer that sent it. Do it enough and we might clean them all out.

[sesfw]

Think the most fun I've had with a scammer was from my 'grand-son'.

He called crying and sniffling about how he had gotten rear-ended and broke his nose,  He had a beer so after his trip to hospital the police had arrested him and he needed $5500 for the lawyer to get him out.  All this time he was really crying and complaining about how sore his nose was.

Think we talked for about 10 minutes before I had to do something for work ...... so I told him I didn't have a grand-son.

Click

[weltschmerz]

Jul 21, 2021 17:51:48 GMT -5 sesfw said:

I've had it ........ up to my eyes.  I'm starting to fight back

My spiel for now until I perfect a new one.

'I am the casting director for adult films.  What are you wearing?  Are you wearing a thong?  Can you dance?  Can you pole dance?  Tap dance?  Ballet?  Can you get to Los Angeles in time for an audition by 10 am tomorrow morning?

You are not eligible for the film .............. click


I've discovered if you start asking them questions it throws them off their written speech.  Places the people on the phone on the defensive.


Now I want to start a fundamentalist religious talk.   Can you help me?  Any suggestions?

Most of these calls are from India. Tell them your god can beat up their gods.

[NoNamePerson]

Back in olden days with no caller ID and depending on my mood I would let them go on and on! When they asked “doesn’t that sound like a good deal?” I replied Could you repeat that to my Siamese twin?   Silence and then dial tone!

Now I just don’t answer either phone! Doubt if human on other end anyway with all the technology today!

[Deleted]

Jul 22, 2021 16:09:15 GMT -5 sesfw said:

Think the most fun I've had with a scammer was from my 'grand-son'.

<snip>
Think we talked for about 10 minutes before I had to do something for work ...... so I told him I didn't have a grand-son.

Click

Someone tried that scam on Mom. She kept insisting that my DS could NOT have been arrested for drunkenness because DS doesn't drink alcohol (which is true). They finally hung up.

What's creepy: DS and my parents have different last names. My parents live 12 hours away and we have never lived in the same city with them. DS and parents are not on FB.

How the heck did they make the connection? I'm pretty sure the caller identified himself with DS's first name, although I know sometimes people get tricked by the caller saying, "Grandma..." and the grandparent responds with "(Name)... is that you?"

[swamp]

My dad got one of those “grandpa I got arrested” phone calls.

My son was 10 at the time. My dad had fun with that call.

[NoNamePerson]

Jul 23, 2021 9:24:42 GMT -5 @athena53 said:

Jul 22, 2021 16:09:15 GMT -5 sesfw said:

Think the most fun I've had with a scammer was from my 'grand-son'.

<snip>
Think we talked for about 10 minutes before I had to do something for work ...... so I told him I didn't have a grand-son.

Click

Someone tried that scam on Mom. She kept insisting that my DS could NOT have been arrested for drunkenness because DS doesn't drink alcohol (which is true). They finally hung up.

What's creepy: DS and my parents have different last names. My parents live 12 hours away and we have never lived in the same city with them. DS and parents are not on FB.

How the heck did they make the connection? I'm pretty sure the caller identified himself with DS's first name, although I know sometimes people get tricked by the caller saying, "Grandma..." and the grandparent responds with "(Name)... is that you?"

Some of the phone/address look up sites have “possible kin, related to, etc. I had someone attached to me for years! Finally told them he died in my best sobbing voice I could muster. Got mail forever and kept returning it Deceased!

My mother got attached to me just from having her mail forwarded to me. We didn’t have same name either.  She got a letter from Sears Or some store congratulating her on the purchase of her new home! It was me that bought new house! She had been in the ground for10 months

[Spellbound454]

I just interrupt their spiel with an authoritarian ....... "Let me just stop you there"

"I'm not interested thankyou, goodbye"

A bit blunt but to the point.


As for a very Indian sounding voice trying to tell you his name is "Brian"

Its hilarious, who do they think they are trying to kid.

[sesfw]

Most of these calls are from India. Tell them your god can beat up their gods.

This is a great idea also.

Most of our calls are from Kingston Jamaica ........

[skeeter]

Just received a new to me version yesterday. Robo caller said "this is an urgent message for xx (said correct name). If this is xx's household, press x, if not, press xx."

After I waited a minute or so without saying or pressing anything, caller continued with "we have detected that you are not human - goodbye."

Was not curious enough to call the 800 number back to see who it was, but thought it was funny - jerks!

[thyme4change]

Jul 22, 2021 16:09:15 GMT -5 sesfw said:

Think the most fun I've had with a scammer was from my 'grand-son'.

He called crying and sniffling about how he had gotten rear-ended and broke his nose,  He had a beer so after his trip to hospital the police had arrested him and he needed $5500 for the lawyer to get him out.  All this time he was really crying and complaining about how sore his nose was.

Think we talked for about 10 minutes before I had to do something for work ...... so I told him I didn't have a grand-son.

Click

My sister's mother in law got something similar and wired them $5,000. They called back and asked for more - luckily she still does her banking in person because she is too old to trust computers. She went to the bank to transfer money between accounts and wire the money and the bank figured out she was being scammed and shut it down. The story was pretty unbelievable knowing my nephew - legal trouble, international travel and something else.

[sesfw]

My latest plan of action is to say 

gobbledy-gook to nauseum ..........

Worked beautifully this morning with 'SSA"

Heavy accented 'agent' that didn't understand a word I said ........ 

[weltschmerz]

I got a call from 'Service Canada' just this mornng. There's a warrant out for my arrest and I could lose my citizenship. Press 1 to talk to a representative.
So I did.

'Does your mother know you're stealing from poor people? She would be so ashamed of you!'
He couldn't hang up fast enough.

[sesfw]