i got a call from this number from a man with a strong accent, saying that i'm being sued on my ssn for a loan i never made in september 2009. i hung up on him, he called back twice. he gave me no details as to how much the loan was for and wouldn't give me the number to the loan company he said was suing me. that's how i could tell it was a scam
Now calling me in Michigan with a strong accent saying they are the police department and need to call them back and they have my social sec number. DO NOT CALL THEM BACK. TOTAL SCAM.
Well if they called your work # then send them a bill. Then when they don't pay the bill, send it to a collections agency. Anytime someone calls my work number I inform them right away that rates are 120$ up front then 40$/hr for phone consultation, and then I just bill them for my time as I would any other client using whatever address they tell me to send the money to. Since I run a consulting business and those are my actual published rates it works great. They go to their PO box thinking they'll get my money, and instead they get a bill for my time. They never pay up, and I always send it to my usual bloodthirsty collection agent (same firm my local LendingTree uses, if you ask at your local payday scam hut they'll be able to hook you up with a real [***] of a collection agency, so far I've gotten about 600 in the last 20 years of doing this)
Just go to your telephone company web site and BLOCK the offending number, so it will not be able to come thru.
But that's nothing permanent, because those Caller ID spoofers use a number for one day or so, then start to use some other number. The numbers they use are abandoned numbers, not yet reassigned by the telephone companies.
From Wikipedia:
Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient's Caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating station. The term is commonly used to describe situations in which the motivation is considered malicious by the speaker or writer. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, Caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to have come from any phone number the caller wishes. Because of the high trust people tend to have in the Caller ID system, spoofing can call the system's value into question.
It is amazing that such a crooked practice is allowed to go on!
Where are the feds when I need them????? I wrote to my US Rep...no response!
Bottom line: IGNORE IT and never give the other side ANY information. PERIOD!
Recieved several calls from 412-246-1514. The voice mail was a male with a strong accent leaving a threatening message. I am on the do not call list and this continues.
i got a call from this number from a man with a strong accent, saying that i'm being sued on my ssn for a loan i never made in september 2009. i hung up on him, he called back twice. he gave me no details as to how much the loan was for and wouldn't give me the number to the loan company he said was suing me. that's how i could tell it was a scam