Discussion for article #234250
If you are called, ask for their badge number, and their supervisor’s name, and the region they work out of.
Then pretend your call is cutting in and out, then hang up right when you are about to tell them your credit-card number.
When they call back, answer: (your local city) Police Department, how may we help you?
Then when they call back again, block their number, because now you know it and report them to your phone company as a “Harassing Phone Call” and state you want that number blocked.
I’ve had several of these calls threatening me with arrest if I didn’t call them back. I never did call any of them back and I am still waiting to be arrested.
I have received 3 such calls–one from someone with a Middle Eastern accent, and two sounding like Brooklyn mobsters. I tell them to go eat shit and I hang up.
Thanks to the GOP, the scammers are better staffed than the real IRS.
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Well, way less baseless attacks and unjustified witch hunts, better benefits, prepaid legal advice and funeral costs - those’ll almost always impress workers.
Sounds like a good reason to outlaw foreign call centers. There is more evidence of fraud by foreign call centers than there is of that “voter fraud” Republicans are so concerned about, and the potential benefit to Americans is far greater.
It’s not just bringing back jobs that corporate America exported; imagine how wonderful it would be if you called a company and the phone was actually answered by someone who wanted to help you rather than force you to obey their script.
The fraudster who called me talked too fast for me to catch the phone number she wanted me to call. Too bad, because a google search quickly brought me to a page of information from the IRS on how to report such fraud.