This morning in the wee hours (that translates to 0639hrs) I received a call in which a message recorded by a woman who spoke good English informed me (actually she informed whoever picked up the phone) that that after repeated attempts to reach me I was being given one last chance to avoid having the Government file a lawsuit against me. I was to immediately call the number they gave. {I have to wonder how they are going to file a lawsuit if they don’t even know my name.}
Thinking I could get the number from my Caller ID I simply hung up the phone. Surprise! My Caller ID said UNKNOWN NAME-PRIVATE CALLER. Well if nothing else, that made me certain that the caller was not from any branch of the US Government.
I’m going to post the information to the Do Not Call List https://www.donotcall.gov/ {copy and paste this link to go directly to the National Do Not Call Registry}. If you get a call like this I urge you to report it.
Robo-Calls have been increasing significantly espically to older citizens. That fact has Congress debating the lack of enforcement of Do-Not-Call laws. Congress may allow or even require that Tele-Communication vendor begin to use call screening software on their networks.
My family has been getting similar scam calls. In fact just minutes ago I received a call from “Cell Phone CA” 1-650-280-1457 from MicroSoft technical support saying that my Windows computers send him a message requesting a serious problems. I know this scam in which they eventually say then need your userID and password to fix a problem.
My wife’s Mother was scammed last week but a call from “PCH” (Publishers Clearing House) that she has won $50K. We had to interceed is an improper cell phone exchange that lasted 3 days!
My point is that I agree with Kirk’s alerts and the we should do what we can to report these encounters our our representatives in goverment that we have a serious Phone SCAM problem directed at our citizens.