Same message, they have solicited from my elderly in-laws this morning about 11:15, then called our house. They are Hispanic, and told my mother in law that they have to purchase a 'Green Dot Money Pak' card and purchase it for $522.00 or lose out her telephone, internet and whatever connections in her house. I had her report it to the local police, which she did.
They then called our house 4 hours later, as our phone is listed to my wife, with same last name as her parents....
They also said that verizon had a lawsuit against Comcast and since she left them recently, she owed them the above amount.
My thought is.............he works for verizon in some capacity and has access to those records. Did anyone else have the same their services changed from Verizon to Comcast? Please make a police report on this matter locally. The number traces back to Kingston, MA....possibly a Magic Jack user / abuser.
He may have access to Verizon records but he does NOT "works for verizon in some capacity". This sounds like another Green Dot card scam, read about them here http://newjersey.bbb.org/article/bbb-scammers ... al-online-18419 There are laws against cutting phone and energy services to the elderly, no company will do that. This is just an extortion scam. I bet they're just going through the phone book calling up people with the same last names.
My father and my aunt both had this same exact scam happen to them yesterday...within hours of each other. They some how have access to people's account because he actually called comcast and requested that they cut my aunt's cable service because he said they'd be traveling.....so my aunt saw her tv wasnt working and he called her telling her that her payments hadn't been going through.
He gave her his phone number and also the name he used was Victor Gonzalez. He described her house to her and told her HER last four of her social AND her Comcast account number. So he definitely has inside information from Comcast and they need to so some kind of investigatino from their end either from a current or disgruntled former employee who is stealing customer personal information.