Phishing and scam calls

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    • Govenment Checks Scam Warning
    • Posts: 5 | Last post: by Common Sense
    • Thank you for the heads up. Scams will definitely be on the rise during this virus outbreak. We should monitor the news but take any and all reports with a grain salt in regards to the virus due to the mountain of misinformation including the ones of "honest mistake" or "oversight" variety. For...
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    • Some more Microsoft call scammers get busted
    • Posts: 14 | Last post: by Bill Vyn
    • Jim Browning has many youtube videos about these scammers. They mainly call from India but use cronies in the UK and elsewhere to hide who they really are. There's big money to be made.
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    • Federal Agency Impostors
    • Posts: 149 | Last post: by GregAtTheBeach
    • I'm sure Danae has hung around here with baited breath, waiting for your response... ...for seven years! NOT!
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    • Corona Virus Scams - A Sampler
    • Posts: 8 | Last post: by Lynn
    • While looking up information about Coronavirus I have already had my computer virus stop and block pages 3 times. So yes the scammers and hackers are at work. One of these came from a cruise site I often read with a link in one of the posts. The poster was from someone that posts often so I figured...
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    • CMS Legal Group
    • Posts: 26 | Last post: by erika
    • the same thing happened to me by the same person. said he was going to garnish my wages, my income tax, but could stop the lawsuit if i over night 400 money order but wont get confirmation until its recieve and and to call the next day to give him the number on the money order. said if i dont do it...
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    • Someone spoofing my number to make robocalls
    • Posts: 379 | Last post: by Kat
    • Actutally, there's no documented proof Barnum ever said that. Per Wikipedia: Barnum's biographer Arthur H. Saxon tried to track down when Barnum had uttered this phrase but was unable to verify it. According to Saxon, "There's no contemporary account of it, or even any suggestion that the word...
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    • Microsoft phone scam
    • Posts: 18 | Last post: by Slim
    • >> 1984 all the time. << Yep. And, perhaps the following image is applicable to many of the posts in 800notes: https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQt7euaQLinwX7puxTICnTwcOInzevmxPKjTzVVf0nrZulcNm8XGQ
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    • Area Code 156 Scammers
    • Posts: 2 | Last post: by B-Edwards
    • If you have the full number, your post would be more useful to others. And maybe an idea of what the pitch was if possible.
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    • Utility Scams
    • Posts: 6 | Last post: by BigA
    • That link no longer works, but this one does as of 2/1/20 https://www.utilitiesunited.org/
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    • Social Security scam
    • Posts: 14 | Last post: by PeteJ
    • another Social Security SCAM - automated fake "SSA rep" that our #s will be terminated and please hold for an SSA officer... no doubt to ask for our numbers so they can "check to see what the problem is".... total BS. Phone came from 870-639-6724 (https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-870-639-6724) with...
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    • Top Health Robocalls
    • Posts: 206 | Last post: by MidNYteStorm
    • Adding to the post by Slim With an increasing number of scammers / spammers using spoofed numbers to display in the Caller ID, blocking methods are becoming less effective, and we are still awaiting a full / working / free method provided by the Telecoms. The biggest issue in the world of spoofing