The scammers get lists because none of your information is private anymore and hasn't been for a long time. Technology has enabled anyone who wants personal information to buy it. Scammers and Telemarketers deal with the data mining industry that sell lists about anything and everything (age groups, ethnic groups, religious groups, political groups - you name it). Just picking up the phone and answering indicates that yours is a live line and it gets put on a list to resell.
This is todays world. Never answer calls you don't recognize. Let them go to a recoder. Never call back a number that doesn't leave a legitimate message.There are a million tricks these scum use. Don't be taken in.
Go online and search for a call blocker that works with your service provider.
Same thing just happened to me from this number. They called my grandma saying they were me and that I was in trouble in New York and needed money. What horrible people... I hope they get in trouble for this.
The scammers get lists because none of your information is private anymore and hasn't been for a long time. Technology has enabled anyone who wants personal information to buy it. Scammers and Telemarketers deal with the data mining industry that sell lists about anything and everything (age groups, ethnic groups, religious groups, political groups - you name it). Just picking up the phone and answering indicates that yours is a live line and it gets put on a list to resell.
This is todays world. Never answer calls you don't recognize. Let them go to a recoder. Never call back a number that doesn't leave a legitimate message.There are a million tricks these scum use. Don't be taken in.
Go online and search for a call blocker that works with your service provider.
We have gotten several calls from this number--if my wife answers it is "Hello Grandma"...if I answer it is "Hello Grandpa" and then they go into a spiel about needing money for bail or surgery. We just hang up now.or let it go to Voice Mail (never a message).
My mother just had a similar call from this number. The person said it was my nephew (had his name) and he was in jail after getting a dui after leaving a wedding. (on a wednesday night) and needed money. When my mother said it didn't sound like him, he said his nose was also broken. She said for him to call his parents and he said he couldn't he would get in trouble. She heard a slight southern accent which my nephew doesn't have..and said I am not helping you call your parents. and the person hung up. She knows it was a fraud, but she was really shaken up by it. Shame on these people who do this.