This is technically the cyber crimes division of the FBI. Also, you might want to run computer scan's (antivirus, malware bytes, do a online scan etc and check to see if your email accounts have possibly been hacked. Change any and all passwords just in case after running the computer through the scans etc.
My wife keeps getting calls on her cell phone from this number people saying they are with IC3.gov and her email has been reported to them for spamming.
This is technically the cyber crimes division of the FBI. Also, you might want to run computer scan's (antivirus, malware bytes, do a online scan etc and check to see if your email accounts have possibly been hacked. Change any and all passwords just in case after running the computer through the scans etc.
I just had this happen on the same day, August 23rd as well. Please see my post below. I gave detail as to what I experienced. Does this sound similar? The male that I spoke to also had a thick foreign accent and was at time difficult to understand.
I got a call on my child's phone from 281-709-7010 from a male that spoke extremely poor English stating that he was with the Internet Crime Prevention and that he has received multiple reports of spam coming from my email address asking people for their bank account information. I was given the email address of which WAS NOT mine, my child's nor anyone associated with anyone in my family. I was then given the name of a person that was supposedly associated with the given email account. I do not know this person nor is the name anything even close to anything associated with the phone number. He argued that the phone number was registered to that email address and the person whom he mentioned yet despite the multiple times I insistently said that they are nowhere related. I also pointed out that phone number's are recycled and that it could be registered to anyone before the person that has it currently. I then requested a mean to be able to research this issue myself and he gave me the www.IC3.gov website. I asked for the spelling of the person's name to be confirmed and the email address once again. He then voluntarily rattled of an IP address. I asked the male where he was located and he told me out of Texas. I asked for credentials to verify who he was and he said that he is a "Government Agent" working for Internet Crime Prevention. At this point, I told him that I wanted to speak to his supervisor. He never got a supervisor. I told him I had no intention of continuing the conversation, I then stopped him and informed him that I work in law enforcement and that I will immediately begin to research the entire matter upon returning to work Monday. Surprise surprise, he began to apologize and ask that I understand that he is a "Government agent" and that he was only doing his job. Again, I requested a supervisor and was not obliged. I then ask for his name of which he did not give, and told me to feel free to go to the IC3.gov website.
This morning, I researched the number displayed on the phone that shows it was listed to a Kendra Brown of Fresno, TX. Below that, I see that someone else has had a similar call experience. I have checked the IC3.gov website and contacted to FBI and it was confirmed that this IS indeed a SCAM.
I was told that it is a common practice for them to give a legit website out and confirmed that by no means under those false pretenses, would a "Government agent" contact me via cell phone. The REAL FBI agent I spoke with gave me the proper information, instructed me to file a complaint etc.
I got the same call, they said I had over 300 complaints on that IC3.gov site about spam mail. They said I might have a Key Logger on my Mac. Really bad easter indian dialect voice said he would hand me over to the Macintosh person. Funny, sounded like the same voice. Said they could take off the Key Logger and then give me a warranty of one year for $199. I spent so much time on the phone with them that I said call me tomorrow. In the mean time, I called Apple Care. THEY are the Macintosh people and there has never been a Key Logger on a Mac.
This is a big time scam and they are using the FBI's site as a method to scam people. The caller ID says Texas. I doubt that any field office in Texas would be calling me about this. My next call is to the FBI to file a complaint.