Elderly father receiving calls from scammers from this phone number about a sweepstakes of $500,000 he had won (never entered sweepstakes) asked alot of personal questions of him (phish). Asked for cashier check to pay the IRS taxes on the winnings. He then hung up on the caller. Ph# 856-677-8030
This man call me looking for my elderly mother I told him that it wasn't her number he Lethem asked me to give him her number and when I said no he hung up on me.
My Grandmother received a call from a man who called himself James Drew, an attorney working with Silverman and Associates located in Morristown, NJ. He told her she was the 3rd place winner in the Publishing Clearance House Sweepstakes and that she won $500,000. He said 'they' would be arriving on Monday, March 16th, between 9 -11am but said that they needed to verify her name, address and phone number first. Despite my Grandmother be skeptical, he kept assuring her this was not a scam, she would pay nothing for her winnings but never gave her his contact phone number. After a day of talking it over with us family members, we decided to google the phone number which appeared on the caller ID - and THIS is what we found! Thank you to whoever initially posted this warning about this scam - we gotta play the LOTTO! :)
Looks like you have been trying to protect Grandma - the following list might help in that task:
Things to believe:
• There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
• If it sounds (or looks) too good to be true, it probably is.
• You have not won big bucks from a benign benefactor, a pot of pesos from PCH, dinero from a doctor, a car from a caller, or a grant from a gracious government ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄- ◄-
• The tooth fairy really does not exist
• Everything you read on the internet is not necessarily true.
• It is illegal to ask for money for a loan or prize, before awarding the loan or prize!
• "Free Trips" are loaded with mandatory & costly extras, and you usually must give them your card number after listening to a loooong spiel at a hotel.
• Microsoft or a different famous software company, or one of their agents did NOT cold call you to fix your computer.
• The moon is not made of green cheese.
• The IRS will snailmail you, rather than phone you, if there is a problem.
• Jackalope milk is not an aphrodisiac.
• If you "green dot", MoneyGram or Western Union money to a scammer, the money is gone.
• You should beware of Geeks bearing gifts, specially if the gift is a wooden horse with termites, or a statement that your computer is infected.
• 876 is NOT your lucky number, and it will cost you money to call that area code!
• The number you see on your Caller ID may not be the number of the person who called you!
More information on those scams (and others) may be found at
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html
Remember to return here, to 800notes.com, after you look at any of the information at that site, either to post more information, or to let us know you avoided the scam.