Hi, Karen,
Just the other day I got a call on my cell phone saying I won a new car—yah,
right! Too bad I can’t put my cell phone on speaker so I can screen the calls
but I’m thankful to have talking caller ID on it.
Rosie
From: Karen Delzer
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 2:59 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: Don't fall for this scam!
Yah, and I think we've won, maybe 15 trips to the Bahamas in the last several
months. Yah, that's gonna happen. :)
Karen
on 02:31 PM 2/17/2016, Nancy Lynn said:
A loan you donât have to pay back should be a big clue right away. A loan
you donât pay back is called a gift.
From: Connie Mohney
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 3:07 PM
To: ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ourplace] Re: Don't fall for this scam!
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 donât 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 donât you tell me how Iâm supposed to get
all this money I donât 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
donât 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.
