I just received a call from a man who sounded Indian like all you are saying. Telling me that I am 1 of 4 people who are qualified for free money from the Us government bc I pay my taxes or pay my phone bill! All he had was my phone number and email so he said to me he has to confirm all my other info before he can send me the money so I played along just for the hell of it!!! When asked for my address I gave him a bogus one and he said "ok yes that is what I have here!" Then my birthday I gave him another bogus date and again he said " great that's what I have here!" So at the very end he wanted my debit card number and when I questioned him on that he said, "sir, you have my word! The money's will be transferred in 14 days!" That's when I went off on him told him I was going to the FBI with this recording and blah blah blah!! He suddenly started speaking a foreign language which sounded mid eastern and I hung up!!! I knew from the first few seconds of the call it was a scam so I figured Id just [***] with him and string him along until the end and it really pissed him off!!!
Calls multiple times a week introducing himself as a representative of a Women's Health Branch of the US Government. You can't call the number back, I constantly ask him to remove me from their call list. Obviously that is futile after reading these posts. I have threatened many times.
I have had calls from these types of people before. They called me today around 4:30pm and asked for me by name. He told me that I had won a Grant to go to school and tried to tell me the correct answers to say when he transferred me to someone else. I hung up on him because I knew what was going on. These people try to get you to say certain things because they sell your surveys to colleges for money and you never win a grant. I have never fallen for what they have said when they call and now when they call I make fun of them and annoy them until they hang up. Every time I get a call from someone like this it always comes from a different number, but the calls always come from a northern state; today they called from New York. After they hang up on me because of me messing with them, I block the number.
Got this call a couple times today, didn't answer and no message was left. The Called ID says, "College Now" so I'm guessing it's either a continuing education telemarketer type or some kind of survey. In either case I don't care enough to find out by answering. Don't waste your time answering calls from numbers you don't know; if it was important they'd leave a message.