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Offline jchuzi

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phone scam
« on: March 12, 2019, 12:30:23 PM »
Today, I received 5 phone calls (and counting) purportedly from Apple. The robo-female voice stated that my iCloud account had been compromised (I don't have an iCloud account) and that I should speak to a rep. This number spoofs the actual Apple store in Nanuet, NY and shows as (845) 215-6980 on caller ID. I phoned that Apple store and got a recorded message to beware of this scam, so Apple knows about it.
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Re: phone scam
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2019, 02:09:35 PM »
Thanks!

I'll bring this up when I join the Amazon scheme that uses my State capitol location but an unlimited number of phone numbers. Aren't computers (and their generated voices) great?! And Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is still wondering if the interweb may one day be useful... he must have more faith in mankind than I. :wallbash:
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Re: phone scam
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2019, 06:28:45 PM »
Yet another strategic  idea that has found it's way into the scammers hands. In the state of   Idaho, excepting Boise,  there are only 3 or maybe 4 cities of consequence (probably the wrong word) in a really large geographic area and a lot of not too well known small and very small metropolis . Beginning a few weeks ago we started getting calls that show up on the caller id as originating from many of these remote or lesser unknown cities, which I am sure they are hoping to get someone to answer thinking the calls must be from some long lost relative or friend living in Idaho. The IRS and Social Security scams are getting quite a bit of publicity so hopefully their success rate is in the mud. :nono: :ohmy:

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Re: phone scam
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2019, 09:24:25 PM »
Yeah! All my long lost relatives are in very small, little-known and way off the grid places. We were always told by our grand parents that those places were best for avoiding debt collectors and the Federales! :scram:

We often told many of those relatives to call if they found work, perhaps they have! :laughhard:
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Re: phone scam
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2019, 07:59:35 AM »
We have been getting some calls from our local area code, and numbers which are in our town. We have never picked one up but some people who dont have call ID, have answered, and they then get bombarded.
Hoping that sometime soon, that this can be halted, but its so tricky and quite easy for these scammers to do it and not get caught or stopped.
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