Scam Alert FYI
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03/05/21 02:19 PM
03/05/21 02:19 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 8,869 Magna, Utah
GritGuy
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Just received a call from some recorded person in California, saying my SS benefits are locked up till further notice due to a fraudulent use of them, and before they can be released to call this number to give further info ! 1-219-955-6179 if called hang up and report to the SS office in your area !
Government programs never call you for anything they send letters out !
Watch your calls folks for those receiving SS bennies !!
Last edited by GritGuy; 03/05/21 02:20 PM.
Sorry if my opinions or replies offend you, they are not meant to !
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Re: Scam Alert FYI
[Re: GritGuy]
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03/05/21 02:34 PM
03/05/21 02:34 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 23,930 Wisconsin
The Beav
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I just got that same call about an hour ago.
The forum Know It All according to Muskrat
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Re: Scam Alert FYI
[Re: GritGuy]
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03/05/21 03:09 PM
03/05/21 03:09 PM
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Joined: Feb 2021
Posts: 2,366 Interior Alaska
Oh Snap
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Been getting them since 1/20/2021! Usually a Russian voice. I block everyone after the call BUT the call comes from a local number? I call it back but never an answer!
I love the smell of burning spruce---I love the sound of a spring time goose---I love the feel of 40 below---from my trapline I will never go!
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Re: Scam Alert FYI
[Re: Oh Snap]
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03/05/21 03:18 PM
03/05/21 03:18 PM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 16,446 Iowa
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The Count
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Been getting them since 1/20/2021! Usually a Russian voice. I block everyone after the call BUT the call comes from a local number? I call it back but never an answer! Blocking the number will do no good what-so-ever. They use a computer so it looks like any number they want on your caller ID and they just use a different one each time they call.
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Re: Scam Alert FYI
[Re: GritGuy]
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03/05/21 03:21 PM
03/05/21 03:21 PM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 16,446 Iowa
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Have the block feature, but it's not very indiscriminate and I lose some customer calls if I use it, I really don't get many bogus calls and when I do I block them individually !
Customers should leave a message, especially if you put the right out-going message on your phone Tom. Eventually you'll get so many calls you will have to do something, especially when they start coming in all hours of the night.
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Re: Scam Alert FYI
[Re: GritGuy]
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03/05/21 03:35 PM
03/05/21 03:35 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,372 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
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A guy I work with got a call from Border and Customs yesterday alerting him that a package that was addressed to him was held up b/c it either contained narcotics or cash tainted with narcotics.
1) We never realized that paki's were being hired as B&C agents and 2) We never realized they were so nice as to call you so you could claim yer drugs or cash.
Of course my buddy played along and said we have a lot of claims to write and exactly how fast can yall get our narcotics here?
The paki hung up on him...
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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