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Fortunately, they wouldn't answer the phone if they didn't know why so-and-so was calling, so they never fell prey to any scams.
Just fielded another tax scam. She ended her message saying "Take care". I don't believe the tax people say that! Lol Makes you wonder who thinks these things up.
It's tough trying not to say "yes", it just comes automatically. I need to put a sign on my telephones to remind me.
Not to be denied the caller called back and she answered again. It was the IRS scam.
She was told she had taxes due and she needed to pay immediately. If she did not the police would come and arrest her.
She started laughing again and go ahead and send them. I am fifteen years old and have never worked or filed taxes. The caller hung up.
We enabled Nomorobo on our Comcast landline (Comcast offers it for free) last year and it has really cut down on the amount of scam and robo calls we get. We still get a few of those busy signal calls, but I can't recall a scam one since we set it up.
My Dad got a scam call that really shook him up. The call was to his Independent Living facility telephone. The caller said that Dad's car was used in a bank robbery and if he didn't want to be visited by the police he could pay the caller money.
Dad immediately called me because I had recently donated his car to charity, signed title went with the car. He wanted me to find out who bought the car. I had a tough time trying to convince Dad that he no longer had a connection with the car. Plus I had his license plates. No way the caller would know about the car, nor were Dad lived, nor his telephone number.
Dad still wasn't convinced. What about the VIN number? Dad's common sense flew out the window at this point. Finally I was able to get though to him it was a scam caller. Bet other residents in the building also got the same type of call.
Makes me wonder about the scam caller himself. Did he think elders would call up their grown children to have them drive Mom or Dad to the store to buy iTune gift cards?
This particular scam has been going for donkeys' years. The only person I know who seriously fell for it was a friend of my ex-SO's, who thank God took the call when ex-SO was actually in the room and able to snatch his bank card out of his hand just in time.
I'm sure one day Apple users will get their comeuppance. But for now, the "Microsoft Help Desk" racket is just one more reason to be sickeningly smug.
My mom almost got sucked in by the Microsoft support call once....she even let them into her computer! Fortunately she was astute enough to end the call when they asked for her credit card number. (Edit: this incident was actually one of the clues for me that it was time to persuade her to move here, near me.)
Best guy friend was totally blindsided once, and DID give them his CC number! Luckily when they tried to put through his CC, the CC company caught it for the fraud it was. They called him right away, and he cancelled his card and got a new one. He's not even a senior yet! Just not very computer smart or news aware (but he has other qualities, lol). He wouldn't know if MS was or wasn't going under. He's learned his lesson though....he won't even use his CC to order things off Amazon now! I do it and he gives me the cash, lol.
I keep hoping to get one of those MS support calls, myself. I've got a lot of time on my hands these days, trapped inside this apartment. I could have a very good time leading them on and frustrating their efforts to get inside my computer/get my card number.
Yeah, I can have a great holiday on my credit card without your help.
Unfortunately greed often trumps common sense, no doubt they have some who fall for it.