PLEASE NOTE !!! THESE SCAMMERS ARE IMPERSONATING THE US GOV'T / SEVERAL GOV'T OFFICES AND RELATED PERSONS....BEWARE !!!
- they are also impersonating DEA officials / IRS / FAKE LAW FIRMS etc.... with threats to arrest you unless you immediately send money via wire transfer / western union to some offshore country !!!!! obvious scam !!!
some are landlines...many are cell phones...some are spoofed and linked to offshore foreign call centers / countries !!!!
we've traced back most of these numbers to offshore foreign call centers mostly in INDIA / THAILAND / AFRICA / JAMAICA ETC....
here's a few other numbers posted from the same area code offering a wide variety of scams / fake emails and scams after posting something on craigslist ( old scam ) ...... collecting for non existant " payday loans "....free money / scam giveaways / calling on behalf of a humane society..... $1,000's in free gov't money......... etc etc.....stories change out all the time......and the usual nonsense!!!
** mysteriously call to claim they have several thousand of dollars to send you / give ....just provide your bank account and credit card right away etc etc.........scam scam
several of these are the usual long ongoing scams such as : you have won a free walmart / bestbuy gift card....or you have won a free ipad etc......all long ongoing scams............
Called me today. I looked them up on 1800notes. Decided to call them back. Woman answered and said she was Emma Somebody. Spoke too fast for me to get the last name. Said she would be very brief and went into something about mortgages. I interrupted her. When told her that no, I would be extremely brief and was recording the call, she interrupted me and said she would put me on her do not call list and quickly hung up. I hung up and put a call block on her number. Suddenly i felt empowered.
I got several calls a day from 202-600-7237. I looked up the number here and called back. A woman introduced herself as "Emma Peterson." The background noises sounded very much like a call center. She started to talk about refinancing with very low mortgage rates - this is when I cut her off and told her to put me on the DNC list. She said she would and hung up. Let's see if I get anymore...