SCAM - Same Phone Number Calling Multiple Different Numbers Within 5 Families That Share Information On Scammers. This phone number calls asking for has tried collecting money for Fake Charities, Maryland State Police Africian American Officer Benevolent Fund, Homeowners,
Got a call on my cell, claiming to be from "a job referral service". Said I filled out a job referral online, it was a foreign person. I told them I have been employed for over 2 years and I did not such thing. She then said they would be sending me alot of job referrals and to fill out as many as I could. I said, no, I will not be filling out anything, I just said I was already employed. I then asked how they got my cell number, as I never gave that out to any job referral online. She proceeded to go onto the job referral spiel again. I said, please take me off your calling list.
Just got a call from them and they told me the same thing about job referals. SWhen i asked them how they got my number they told me i filled out something online. Havnt been online all day and she told mer i must have forgoten i filled something out ( foreign lady as well). I sid your insane and hung up. Wonder who sold them my info
Basically, a very similar thing just happened to me as happened to james and KarateAero.
A woman with an almost unintelligibly-thick foreign accent called about a what I thought I heard as a "job reference." I deduced that she was meaning to say job referral on job application.
I am very happy with my job and have not applied to any others since I was hired there almost a year ago. I haven't put my name on any job boards or anything similar in years.
In the background of her call, it sounded like maybe like a shopping mall, subway station or open market with lots of other loud unintelligible voices, noise, and I think I even heard yelling. When I started to question her about what company she was with, or what she was actually calling me about she repeated herself once again about a job. She sounded really confused and not prepared, perhaps her script doesn't have any deeper explanation. When I asked her to explain further she then hung up.
I would guess that this is a simple ploy to get identity theft-type information from unsuspecting or easily tricked individuals. It would seem that she would be really, really bad at tricking people, but I guess she figures if she calls enough people she'll catch an unsuspecting person who just applied for a weird-enough job where having some terrible-sounding foreign person call you about it isn't unexpected.,
The foreign person claiming to be collecting for Police fund. This number is connected to criminal behavior. Do not give any information. Tell them you do not give money to scammers.