Oh, yah, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. We probably get
10-20 calls a week from some scammer or other. I wish there were a
way to track these people down and put them on a chain gang somewhere
because they obviously have far too much free time. It's like they're
walking into our homes without permission when they call us like
that, you know.
Karen
on 01:07 PM 2/17/2016, Connie Mohney said:
How awful. I know of two other scams going on. Someone will call you and say they are from the US department of treasury. They will say because you have paid your bills on time you are eligible for a loan you don't have to pay back. At that point,I knew there was something up because it sounded to good to be true. So, I said, why don't you tell me how I'm supposed to get all this money I don't have to pay back. At which point, they said if you give us your bank account information the money will be deposited. I said I don't think so and hung up.
Another scam is someone will call you and say your computer is sending out lots of error signals. So I said yeah so? They said eventually the error signals will make it crash. So I said How am I supposed to fix it. They said if you allow us to go into your computer we will help you fix it. I hung up on that one too. I called a reputable repair store my employer uses to have their computers fixed and told them what happened and they asked if I gave them access to my computer They were glad when I said no. Hope this helps someone.
Connie
From: ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ourplace-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nancy Lynn
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 3:41 PM
To: nfbmo list; NFBC List
Subject: [ourplace] Don't fall for this scam!
I got this from another list and thought others should see it as well.
I want to urge all of you not to fall for a particularly vicious and despicable phone scam that seems to be going on now and that may be targeted toward the elderly. I have experienced this myself and, although i knew it was a scam, I still found it a little frightening and it made me very angry. You get a phone call informing you that you are being sued by the IRS and must take immediate action to avoid being arrested or having legal actions taken against you. This is a scam. Don't fall for it! The IRS would not make such calls. Information to taxpayers would be mailed and would not involve threats. I received three recorded phone calls on my iPhone. the message informed me that I was being sued by the IRS and that this was my final warning. i was further told to call a number at "our department" to get the details of the suit against me. Each time the number to call was different. I knew this was a scam so i ignored the calls and they stopped. but I hear from news reports that people are falling for this and sending money to stop the legal action. People are naturally scared when they get threatening calls supposed to be from the government so they fall for this trick. don't be a victim of this. I suspect that most of you are smart enough not to be tricked by these calls but please share this information with friends or family members who you think might be vulnerable to this scam. I wasn't sure who to report the calls to so I did nothing but I wish now I had done some follow-up. This was also talked about on KMOX news this week. So ignore the calls if you get them and just hang up.
