Here's the deal...if my phone rings and I don't recognize the number (well actually, it's more of a scenario of, if I don't see a name I know) I won't answer it. Shocking, I know. This actually used to drive Man-Child utterly insane. He insisted that I *should* answer it because, "What if it was an emergency?!" I informed him that if it was an emergency they would leave a message.
And guess what? Nine times out of ten, they never left a message.
He now understands why I won't answer the phone after he was inundated with over twenty or more calls in one day. Listen to your mother, children, she may actually be on to something after all, despite the fact that you think she doesn't know a darn thing and is living in the dark ages.
So today when the phone rang - as usual, I hit Ignore and went about my business. Only to be alerted a few seconds later that I had a voicemail. Considering this isn't usually how this goes down, I listened to the voicemail.
Now, to be honest, I don't think I would have fallen for it - but just the day before I had heard about the latest scam on the radio - because, seriously? The Social Security Administration is going to CANCEL my number because of suspicious activity - I don't think so. And I certainly don't think they would call me to tell me about; mainly because how would they even know where to call me? It's not like the SSA and I are in constant contact. Heck, we don't even follow each other on Twitter!
At any rate, they called me again and left another voicemail, from a different phone number - of course.
When I mentioned this to The Husband, his eyebrows shot up in alarm. I told him that it was a scam and how I knew it was one. I then told him that he needed to tell his mother - although my mother-in-law is pretty savvy, this one might unnerve her considering she's living on Social Security.
So here's your mission - we all have at least one or more people in our lives who might/could fall victim to this scam - or others - so pass on this information to those people in your life.
I have gotten suspicious calls like this before. 'the IRS needs such and such' - I always call my accountant who is also my best friend since 2nd grade. And she says yo ignore it.
ReplyDeleteMy father in law just fell victim to a scam. Someone called him claiming to be from APPLE. Saying he was hacked. He fell for it and lost $3,000. BTW APPLE will never call you if there is a problem.
This is a new one for me; I will share. I also never answer unknown numbers. ��
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A relative keeps getting calls from "Medicare" telling her on the answering machine that they are going to discontinuing payments for her pain medication. She doesn't take any pain meds. Oh, and she (and we) don't answer any unknown numbers.
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