Also received various calls from this number. We are dual military. I confronted the woman and asked her how tricare was directly connected with DOD. She said she didn't know. I also asked her how come DOD was located in Illinois? She said she was calling from an area code starting with 5 something. I told her to get her facts straight before she tries to scam someone. I also told her that it was a federal offense. I told her never to call back and that I was going to let all of FT Bragg know about this through our S2 channels. She sounded like she was going to cry and hung up.
Got this call at 8:00 pm and it freaked me out being since my husband is deployed at the moment. called back and got the same mailbox full message so I'm guessing it's a scam. I've heard of these calls targeting military families so atleast I would have been prepared. Hopefully noone is falling for it.
It is Feb 1, 2008 and I just recieved a call from this same number, but I dont usually answer numbers that I dont recognize. So I put the number in here and I read all of these statements, and being as we are active duty military, I was very skeptical. So I called the number back. Just as everyone said, a voice mail with a guy saying that it is the DOD. Why are they targeting military? Dont they realize we have enough things going on???
They called my phone again on Feb. 3, 2008 and said he was from the Dept. of Defense. I told the guy about the research that I had done, and what it all said, and he kept going on and on about how it wasn't a scam and this, that and the other. He said that he wanted to talk to my husband. So testing him, I asked why he wanted to talk to him. He said it was on behalf of him being sent home from Iraq because he got hurt...which is true. But here is the part that I was testing him on. Anyone in the military KNOWS that someone calling about something like this CANNOT tell anyone but the person they are calling for why they are calling. So right then I knew he wasn't from the dept. of defense. I knew it was a scam. But I let him talk to my husband anyway, cause he would tell him where he could put his little test. That guy haggled my husband for almost half an hour! Saying that he really was from the D.O.D. and all this. Finally we hang up. Just wanted to let everyone know about how extremely rude this guy was!!!!
OK so i got this call round 1800, i happened to be talking to my husband on yahoo at the time. I knew it had to be a cell phone because we had a bad connection. He kept saying Hello, hello....This guy claimed he was from the DOD asking about our insurance. I told him my husband was unavailable and he said has he recently been deployed or is he about to be deployed, and I was like, why do you ask, then he hung up... What a dummy... like i was going to tell him. Anyway, my husband says hes going to CID, and I will do the same. It freaked me out a little bit. I got his [***] next time.