A 51-year-old woman from Milford is facing federal charges for her role in an arrest scam in West Michigan.
The investigation into the arrest scam began when the co-conspirator posed as someone working in the “IRS Fraud Department” and unwittingly sent a text to a cell phone number assigned to a federal agent living in Kent County.
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You mean it's not just a call center in India doing all that? We got locals?
ReplyDeleteI firmly believe that Ma Bell (and other associated phone companies) can end 99% of the phone scam crap overnight, if they wanted to. The fact that I have a burner landline and an answering machine full of scam calls indicates that neither the private companies nor the law enforcement give a good goddamn about the problem. These people make those gypsies/travelers look like saints by comparison. And most of them ain't worth the bullet it'd take to shoot them.
Bought a cordless phone, plugged it in to charge. I hadn't given the number to anyone. 23 calls missed in the first hour.
DeleteShoulda stayed focused on your scamming activities, not how you were gonna spend the loot.
ReplyDeleteMy wife has been getting scam calls at least 10-15 times a day for a couple of weeks now. She blocks the numbers, never answers them, and they keep on coming from new numbers.
ReplyDeleteI answered one of them yesterday for her and asked them to put her on their don't call list. I doubt that will help, but I tried.
While it seems like the scams would be easy to spot, and nobody would fall for them, my ex MIL apparently fell for them, to the tune of some $20,000. I don't know the details since it came second hand from my kids, but she was a fairly normal person, with normal intelligence, and you would never have thought that she would fall for it.
After it happened to her, she was ashamed to tell her adult kids, so it made it harder for them to try and fight it. I don't know if she ever got anything back or not.
I know that I never would fall for those schemes, but I am not sure about my wife. She tends to be too trusting, and I have to remind her often of how the world is full of evil people who would take the last dime from someone dying of cancer or some such thing. Fortunately I don't have a hundred thousand in the bank to worry about losing.
I hate to say this, but my wife is easily confused too. There's been several times where she's opened emails, etc. and tried to answer them cause it sounded important. So far haven't lost any real money that I know of, but dear God what I don't know would drive me crazy if I ever found out. And of course, chances are she'd be too embarrassed to tell me in time to fix anything.
DeleteI'd be willing to vote for any president that would promise to nuke those scam call centers.
"Promise"...that's funny shit right there.
DeleteI've a friend here in town who was called for failing to report for jury duty. Payment over the phone could prevent her arrest. She's the Senior Deputy Jury Clerk for the county. It did not go well. She regularly gets calls from people checking to see if their delinquency has been cleared.
DeleteThe Real IRS don't like any amateurs horning in on their racket.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree with Don W; when I was with TracFone, I was getting scam calls and texts all the time. I switched to AT&T pre-paid and now get zero.
I watched a friend of mine get conned for $1400. The assholes knew what was in his account, and strung him along till he 'had' to prove who he was by making a transfer on an atm!!! They even told him where the closest atm was! Thing is, this guy is no dummy, his father was a NASA scientist during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and he probably could do the same. But they talk fast, and put the confusion into your mind, making them sound reasonable and legit.
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