I had a call the other day and they left a message saying they were FedEx and couldn't find my house and to please call them back. I don't know what the scam would have been but I had nothing ordered to be delivered and FedEx always shows up and I know the driver and he doesn't speak ebonics which the caller did.

I've gotten all kinds of idiotic calls. Got two the other day. First one was telling me that my overseas account was hacked. I don't have one so I just hung up. There was no number to block. The guy called back and I told him that his message was being recorded and would be given to the police. He hung up. 

Jim 

Stay Safe.

I answer them and lay the phone on the table then continue about my business. I figure the longer the idiot stays on the line the less time they have to try to scam others. One day one of them tried to carry on a conversation with the television.

Those were the scam calls, discounting the calls from the kids, which could at times be classified as "scam". The threatening calls are usually from my wife. (We've been married 48 years.)

Had a guy call me last year wanting to know why I kept calling him with this scammer nonsense. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about. He hung up, not sure he was totally conviced. 

So I called the police office and they told me these guys can 'spoof' calls making them seem to come from a local phone number. In this case my cell phone number. They then refered me to a government agency. The lady here told me there wasn't much they can do- the scammers switch numbers every week or so to avoid the authories.

I keep getting calls about how my car warranty is about to expire. I own a twenty year old car- I really don't think she's still under the company warranty.  

Hi Gamera;

    Yo, I started getting those" car warranty expiring" calls four days after I bought my KIA SOUL new in 2015!

Tanker-Builder

Hi Gamera;

    Yo, I started getting those" car warranty expiring" calls four days after I bought my KIA SOUL new in 2015!

 

I got one yesterday about the car warranty expiring which it did in 2018 but they still call for me to act before they close the file. It's a freaking recording but my app intersepts and goes to voicemail. Speaking of voicemails, I got one in Chinese a couple of months back. Maybe she was warning me about COVID-19 

Some of the calls are generated by auto-dialers, & spoken by a sophisticated, convincing computer voice.

If it's on my work phone (I have to Answer it!) I tell them the accident was so bad, i died!, then block the number. 

I get the car warranty ones all the time. I don't know what car of mine they're thinking of. I have a 96, 06, and two 08's

tempestjohnny

I get the car warranty ones all the time. I don't know what car of mine they're thinking of. I have a 96, 06, and two 08's

 

And they always say this is your last chance to reply,but it never is.

I get the car warranty scam by letters in the mail, repeatedly. There is no company name, no return address, just an 800 number that I should call "immediately!".  They know my name and address, and what kind of car I have.  (I do have a legitimate extended warranty that I bought from the dealer when I bought the car, which expires 8 years from now, but it is definitely not that company that is calling me. ) 

Cadet Chuck

I get the car warranty scam by letters in the mail, repeatedly. There is no company name, no return address, just an 800 number that I should call "immediately!".  They know my name and address, and what kind of car I have.  (I do have a legitimate extended warranty that I bought from the dealer when I bought the car, which expires 8 years from now, but it is definitely not that company that is calling me. ) 

 

I have been getting those every couple of weeks ever since I bought a truck in January.  The ones I get tell me I haven't activated my warranty yet, and should call them right away to rectify that.  With all the phone, e-mail, and snail mail scams, I have to keep checking my driver's license to see if it tells people that I was born yesterday somewhere on it.

Tojo72

 

 

tempestjohnny

I get the car warranty ones all the time. I don't know what car of mine they're thinking of. I have a 96, 06, and two 08's

 

 

 

 

And they always say this is your last chance to reply,but it never is.

 

EXACTLY!!! 

Unless the call shows as from my list of contacts or I recognize the number, I don't answer and let it go to VM..  Never a message.

Email gets deleted without opening unless I recognize the sender.

The recycle bin is on the way back from the mail box for those supporting the USPS.

GMorrison

My business telephone number, which isn't used much by outsiders for anything other than sales calls now:

We have a SF Chinatown sub area code. On the edge although now mostly on the cloud. 35 years of great business lunches but that might be a story for another day, gave a few eulogies to passed friends at banquets.

We get calls all the time in Mandarin.

I recorded a few and sent them to a Mandarin speaker associate.

"This is the Chinese Goverment. You will be deported immediately unless you pay us a fee to take your case to court".

Imagine that??!!

Bill

Hi,

Every now and then I get calls that I think may be in Mandarin as well. 

Pat

I usually get one every other month, my car warranty has expired, my SSN has been compromised, the IRS is filing a lawsuit against me, or my (already paid in full) student loans can be consolidated with a lower rate.

All are automated messages, and are why I don't answer any number that I don't recognize anymore.

Unfortunately my work line does not give me the choice to not answer an incoming call, and I get between 3 and 10 dead air calls every day.  At least this is an improvement from several months back when I was getting 35 to 40 of these dead air calls every day. 

I started logging all these numbers from the caller ID to see if there were any recurring numbers, and there was very little duplication.  If you want to know the definition of misery, being interrupted every 10 to 20 minutes for no reason for 8 hours every day, that is it....