Just recieved a text to my at&t phone saying "Sent you an email. When you get a chance do take a look at it.".... of course, i never recieved an email... just the text to the mobile, trying to get me to call...
I just received a call from 571-422-7207 today. I do not answer calls that are not identified, figuring if I really need to talk to the person calling they will leave a message and I'll call back. No message was left. This call was to my cell phone which I do not ever give out the number to any business. The only people that have my cell phone number are family and friends. Scams and fraud has always been a problem, but with the economy getting worse every day the "scuz" balls are coming out of the woodwork. Everyone really needs to be extra cautious and never, never, never give out personal id information (i.e., ssn, bank account numbers, etc).
Received a call from there today from VA saying my bank card had been deactivated, press one to reactivate it. I pressed one and received another automated message to enter my 16 digit card number. I just hit 16 random numbers just for the hell of it and got another message-sorry, we do not recognize that number, please try again. I just laughed and hung up. I should have kept punching random numbers to see how many tries it would give you and see if a real person would ever pick up thinking thay had real sucker on the line.
Yesterday July 6, 2010 I received a call to my cell phone while at work from 571-422-7207. When I answered there was a recorded message stating that my credit card from "Evergreen something or another Bank" had been inactivated, and in order to reactivate it to press "one". Fully knowing that this was a scam, I pressed "one" to see how far they would go. Of course the next message, also recorded, prompted me to enter the 16 digits of my credit card. I entered some random numbers to which they repited to confirm. Fearing that I may have entered somebody's valid number, I changed the entry to 16 times the number 5. The message at the other end stated it was not valid number and to re-enter it. I then entered 007 until I reached 16 digits. Again I was prompted to re-enter the number as the 007 was not a valid number. I tried several times with bogus numbers, and each time the message at the other end stated it was not a valid number. I'm sure their system is sofisticated enough to detect when they find a poor soul who falls for their scam. I wish there was a way to punish the jerks.