IRS Scam Alert

down home wrote:
Wife is bored, so I hope they don't call. Last scam someone tried. She played along.
Ended up with me and kids and cops waiting, on the perps, in a parking lot armed to the teeth.
They never showed and didn't intend to they wanted a number off a green dot card or something she was supposed to buy. I'm too old for bear hunting.
I told her don't ever do that again.
Got a call a few days later about free cruise. She didn't get to the phone before I did.

Sorry that you missed the cruise. We had a great time. :)

I just use THIS on the unwanted robo calls after it has been on my machine for a few days all robo/scam calls stop, when the start coming back I put it on again.

A neighbor told me that he tells pesky sales people that if they ever call again he is going to make an appointment with them and there is going to be a butt kicking "party" waiting for whoever shows up. That ends them.

2oldman wrote:
My cell never gets these calls.

I used to think so but in the last two weeks I have had text messages from some supposedly financial institution saying my credit card was temporarily disabled due to suspicious activity and to call XXX. I realized it was a scam and didn't call but did some checking. There was a credit union in my area with that name but I do not have an account with them. I also did a reverse number lookup and the number that sent the text and the number to call were both AT&T mobile numbers from the Washington, DC area. Now why would a bank/credit union have a mobile number???

Several years ago my daughter tried to sell her flute on Craigslist. A guy contacted her right away and said he was interested. He wanted to send her a (stolen or forged) check for $1500 and have her send the flute and the change back to him. At the time I was a contractor working for the FBI Training Center. I told him that if he ever contacted my daughter again I was going to send the FBI the string of e-mails. We never heard from him again.