I got a voicemail from a man with a thick accent pretending to be a DEA agent (though at first he said CIA) looking for Hans Gordon. Several minutes later there was another call from the same number looking for someone with a different name but pressing that this was an urgent matter and that if it could not be worked out then an arrest warrant would be issued and whoever he was looking for would be arrested at their home or place of business.
I didn't call back, but I am aware of this scam. You call back and they tell you ordered items that are illegal to pass through customs and you can take care of it by paying a fine within a certain number of hours. If you don't, you will have to go to court. Sometimes this scam's caller poses as a collection agency for the government for unpaid traffic tickets. Most people probably brush it off, but if you think you might have ordered something you weren't supposed to or that you have outstanding tickets their scare tactics could work.
When are people gonna learn NOT to answer calls whose numbers you don't recognize? Don't answer them, and I don't 'play' with them, either...sheesh. You must be the same people who click on links in emails from people/businesses you don't know, as well. Spam emails and phone calls wouldn't stand a chance of succeeding if people would just ignore them.
We are not idiots/children. I would like to think that we are all intelligent adults who have better things to do than to entertain intrusive, illegal phonecalls and emails.
This f-ing fool just rang the phone but we don't answer calls from strange numbers. If it's important and someone is coming for you they won't call first. Just block them problem solved.