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- Keep getting home improvement scam calls. Decided to have a little fun with one of them.
- Nice shooting, Tex, advising what Rickshay was already doing for a problem that person did not have, 28 months ago. Never mind that: * Swiftly hanging up is precisely what the lead generators want from "non-performing assets". * Lack of comprehension is poor criteria for call management. Would the...
- "USSP Shipping" using a new phone # to scam
- Almost verbatim to the call I received from "Carly" at 256-212-7921, including Jeff Foxworthy jokes. I hung up in the middle of him telling a Nascar joke.
- Financial Crime Department
- That's so funny. I couldn't stop laughing as I read your suggestion. Great idea!
- Oil rig scammers
- These people are Romance scammers trying to take money from widows and lonely women that are vulnerable. If they ask you to buy gift cards and give them or they tell you they love you and need to pay someone to get to where you are, it's a lie. Please protect yourselves people.
- YouTube as a phone scam vector
- According to Google's AI Overview: A video ad upload channel on YouTube is the dedicated channel used to host and upload video content that is intended to be used in YouTube Advertising campaigns, such as in-stream or in-feed ads. These channels are typically linked to a Google Ads account to mana
- Toll violation pending from the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Well....Someone has to pay for that road, right? Guess they think it is us...!!
- AI bots
- Found it on a variety of platforms but originally credited to the investigative reporter Jeff Rossen. I think I found the report on PBS. I do remember, telemarketers asking me to confirm my phone number by answering "yes" to their quote.
- Might be a good idea to look out for McAffee scam posts
- That one reminds me of a Troll who used to frequently post on this site with posts that were always trying to provoke replies that it could further whine and complain about. That Troll always seemed to be rather "annoyed".
- The WORST charities in America?
- Shriners is the most aggro tele-solicitor in Southern California. St Judes pounds the television shows instead.
- Fake Spectrum 50% discount PHISHING SCAM
- If they're asking the victim to call back the number shown on their caller ID, I doubt it's spoofed, or it wouldn't connect them with the criminals.
- Thousands of workers flee Cambodia scam centres
- My email phishing spam, which previously voluminous, has dropped off to almost nothing over the past two weeks. I'm thinking it might be related.
- Debt collector
- One of the newest games being played is companies is to buy old debt that cannot be collected through the court of law. Nothing new about that, debt collectors have been doing that for decades. Credit card debt varies from 5-7 yrs Medical 2-8 yrs ... The Statute of Limitations (SoL) for
- More on the PayPal phone scam
- Good find! It even gave me a couple more reasons for not using PayPal.
- Telemarketers using 800 numbers
- Ah, as always, your technical prowess and capacity for explanation are very much appreciated, Nimrod. How clever of scammers to distort their numbers. Reminds me of the "Sand People" of Star Wars who traveled in single file to hide their numbers. Cheers! :-D
- " 909" area code fraud scams / fake calls and texts
- 909 area code is from southern California (San Bernardino).
- SIM Farms’ and the Spam Plague.
- I just read about this somewhere else but I forget where (possibly the Wired article that B-Edwards refers to). I suspect these might responsible for the email spam I've been getting lately that traces back to IPV6 addresses rather than IPV4.
- Article in the Guardian about Indian phone scamming culture
- Awesome article. Thanks for posting.
- Another: Pig Butchering scams - London Review of Books
- This article is a review of "Scam: Inside South-East Asia's Cybercrime Compounds" by Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo. The London Review of Books is a paywall site, but they allow you a limited number of free views per month. (If you like this article I'd suggest you print it as a PDF from...
- Medicare Changed
- You certainly have a point about Medicare Advantage (C) making it hard to go back to A/B, but I have no intention to do so. I've happily been with Kaiser Permanente for about 40 years, and the transition to their Advantage plan when I retired was seamless. I've received terrific care from them since...
- Scammed even though he used the airline's number.
- I conducted a thorough examination of this post, and one particular detail drew my attention: the reference to an agent identified as "David." I assess that an employee at United Airlines may be collaborating with a scammer. This individual may have facilitated the transfer of the victim to the...
- PCH jamaican scammer
- Thanks for informing the community, ron miller but it would better disseminate the information if you post under the threads for the specific phone numbers as forum topics might not "pop up" when someone searches the number. Here are the threads for each number:...
- Can the Career Criminals Who Don't Have Breast Cancer Count On Your Support? FTC Sues Hero Charity
- I think there was a Breast Cancer call report over in WCM either late yesterday or early today. This outfit will not die easy.
- The person at extension -five- is on the phone.
- Most likely a misconfigured PBX from a call center. A lot of call centers have outbound dialing capabilities and sometimes, somebody fails to configure the system properly. What’s supposed to happen is the system calls numbers from a list. If someone picks up, it’s suppose to transfer the call to an...
- beware of FL Dept. of Highway Motor Vehicles (scam texts)
- Pudge is quite correct; this should be posted under the number thread for the number that called you. This site is based on people looking up the numbers that called them. Posting such "warnings" like yours in a Forum thread is an exercise in futility as it will be quickly displaced by other thread
- USPS Warns of Brushing Scam
- Postal Service warns consumers about increasing ‘brushing scams’ Mark Huffman, Reporter Jun 30, 2025 The U.S. Postal Service is alerting consumers about a rising wave of "brushing scams" that involve receiving unsolicited packages. These scams are a form of e-commerce fraud where your persona
- Some Good News
- Good to see Law Enforcement and the Justice System working together on both sides of the border. Hopefully he will be convicted on all counts and spend the full 40 years in prison.
- Paypsl Scam
- It's getting out of hand already.
- Fake Publishers Clearing House
- Why did you answer a call from a number you didn't recognize in the first place?
- Blackstone Legal Face Permanent Ban
- Debt collection operation Blackstone Legal, along with its owners, will face a permanent ban from the debt collection industry as a result of the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit charging that they deceived and harassed consumers to collect fake debts the consumers did not owe. Blackstone Legal,...
- "Easy Quotes" (or perhaps "EZ Quotes" or other variation) insurance
- Caller ID!! Dang keyboard doesn't transmit all letters. Today have already received 2 AI/soundboard robocalls from "Auto Care" - no luck yet getting connected to a licensed agent.
- Fakes pretend to be a celebrity
- Since I find "social media" platforms to be a waste of my time, my personal answer is "No". If those texts include a phone number, you can place it in the search box on every page of this site and it will take you to the proper number thread to post information about the text. You may find that...
- Warning to Chrome Users - URL Phishing Scam
- Ah, yet another reason to dislike Chrome. I wonder if we will soon be reading similar news about Edge (since it was based on Chrome).
- Latest Pay Pal phone scam
- 3/25/25 my husband received an email from Pay Pal stating there was a large charge on his account. He doesn't have an account. I opened one several years ago. He did call the number then hung up after too many questions were asked. Then we immediately received three calls from the number. At 6am...
- Fake Posts & Accusations of Blackmail
- getting an answer to that. Hope posted that in 2012.
- A Bit of History
- I received a similar "Nigerien Prince" scam *through the US Mail* yesterday. It originated in Canada. (I highlighted US Mail, because doing so means that they've committed a Federal offense, which puts them a cut above the typical texting or email scam, in potential penalties.) Same old garbage: It...
- Routers Destroyed in Hack
- Definitely "NOT" the US government. Nope. Definitely.... Not.
- Smishing Texts On Rise - Unpaid Tolls Scams
- Yep, got one of them darn pesky scammer texts just the other day. As I don't never use any of them toll roads, I knowed it be fake from the get go. Sent it on to 7726 and then fer good measure, tapped that Apple link whats says "Report Junk" and faster than a bolt of lightnen that text dun be gone...
- fraud\scam or good service??
- 2025. I can say after reading all this lumpy lover still at it. I appreciate all the info tho. I'd say after catching his assault charges in flordia . Fudo llc. Capital holdings llc in florida. And a lawyer/credit adjuster????? Wtf he gives loans .makes them fault. Puts a lein on your bank account....
- Portfolio Recovery - TV News Item
- Thanks for posting B. This will be a good report to put up for anyone dealing with PRA. update: just posted your link to a thread with PRA call.
- Arizona telecoms firm is sued by 48 states - 12 Billion Robo Calls
- You forgot to add that a legitimate business has to register with the DNC Registry and prove that they are legitimate before they can even request to buy any of those number lists. No scammer organization, trying to steal money, is going to needlessly pay for a list of phone numbers. Add to t
- O2 comes up wiqth a new way to annoy scammers
- Cute. Sounds a little like what jollyrogertelephone.com is doing in the US, although the latter is a small-scale operator "Roger the Phone Guy" and not a major carrier. And then there's the "Lenny" bot described at toao.net/Humor/lenny.html I had a number which was unusable for four years because of...
- fake china eastern airline customer service number
- Just in case "susan" does not come back to this thread to see your suggestion, I C&P'd her post to the 855-589-5530 thread.
