"202" AREA CODE FRAUD AND SCAM CALLS

Please add this number to your list: 202-800-5529

This number calls me 2 or 3 times a day. They always hang up. Unfortunately I cannot simply block 202 calls because I live in Washington DC, so most of my personal and business contacts have 202 area code numbers!

Your best defense still is the Caller ID. If you see a name you don't recognize, probably you should not pick up the call. If you do pick up the call, and a voice tells you to press a number, press nothing; hang up immediately! Good luck.

Yes wait before you send item, these checks all appear legit and several banks have ok'd them but then a wek or so later the bank says check was stolen or forged and make you pay $4000.00 EVEN though they ok'd it. Many people have gotten stuck with this. Make sure the check has cleared no matter how long it takes.

I live in area code 202 and almost never get a scam call from my homeland.  Area 202 has such a small population when compared to the rest of the country, that lots of 202 appears to be assigned to cell phones and locations outside of DC like googlevoice.

Guess the scammers think that seeing a Washington, DC number pop-up on your caller id will somehow prompt you to show a little more respect when answering a call from your nation's capital.

My advise, hang the hell up on anyone from 202.  If its not scams, it some dopey political robo-call!

Another number to add to the 202-470-5469 they told my mom to send money by way of western union
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I volunteer with senior citizens, and they often ask me about calls with the area code "202" or the ID "Washington, D.C." Of course I tell them that these are bogus calls and not to answer them. But these are people who came up in a more innocent time, when the idea of a call from Washington, D.C., was considered something special. The best we can do is educate our senior friend and loved ones about spam and scam phone calls. They are the ones who will fall into the traps most readily.

Another fake number (202) 697- 9205.  Sounded Russian or Eastern. European saying he had over $10,000 for me tax free.  I hung up and the dirt bag.   I would like to hunt these people down and get rid of them for good.

Yes...i just got screwed over by them...they
claimed to  b gov. workers sending me my grant money i had applied for but saying i had to send $153 2 them first...b4 i realized they could have taken the money out first i had already sent the monogram

202-4073261 is another number

Also.... 270-747-7372
Keeps calling me without leaving a message!

Oops! Sorry for the last message - typed in wrong area code:
The correct number is 202-747-7372
THAT is the number that calls my cell with no messages!!

Sorry.... wrong area code!
I meant 202...........not 270

202-800-8049

Caller I.D. registers as 'Unassigned'. West African accented voice told me that I was under indictment and would be 'serviced'. I told him to stop on by, and I would 'service' HIM.

Ya... Lolz... And they milk the system too! lolz...

I would suggest a stop payment on that check, and then try and get your money back, or relay the fact that scammers took your cash to the police... Beyond that, there is nothing you can do except aviod it in the future.. If its too good to be true, it probably is.