SCAM alert! I just got a call from 978-376-7327. They asked if I have parents, and that they have a male and a female that were in a car accident. They asked for the color of my parents car and my parents names to "verify". I asked them "where" and they said "dupage". I only gave them my parents first name, and I said I don't know my parent's car color. I googled the number - There's one other incident on facebook involving the same phone number. Apparently they are trying to pull information to try to get to your parents and fake a kidnapping to extort money. I'm not sure where they found my number
Received the call in CO Springs, CO this morning at around 8am. Didn't answer at first but they called right back. I answered the second time; caller said Thank you for answering the call. He said a family member was in an accident and he was given my number to call. I didn't respond (was trying to get out the door to take my step-daughter to school and get to work). He continued on saying there was an accident this morning in CO Springs involving a black SUV and a blue 4-door car and asked if any of my family members drove either of those types of vehicles. I told him no but my husband does drive a blue 4-door so I started to get worried but the way he kept saying ma'am and was very calm made me doubt him some. He went on to say the accident happened around 25 minutes ago in CO Springs (my husband would have already been at work for an hour and he works in a town 45 mins away so I started to realize this was some kind of scam). I told him I haven't heard anything about an accident and asked him who was involved in the accident. At that point the connection dropped. Don't know if it was my cell phone dropping the call or if he disconnected. He never called back.
My husband was in an accident just over a year ago on his way to work and someone from his work called me to let me know because he was taken to the hospital (He was fine but they had to check him out) so I was a little freaked out by this call. I dropped my step-daughter at school and then called my husband because I didn't want to worry her unnecessarily. He was safe at work. Took me 2 hours to stop shaking after this! I called my local police station and they told me to go to www.ic3.gov and report it there.
Just got my wife, same story about accident, family member, etc. Smart enough to do it on Presidents day so the bank can't stop the funds. IC3 seems to be more involved with internet crimes than phone crimes, and they want too much info.
I recieved the same call this morning, my parents had been in an accident and they hit his brother who had a gun and that i needed to help or the situation would turn ugly. When i asked what my parents names where he couldn't tell me and when i said I was going to call them to check on them he told me i didn't want to do that. When i asked what his name was again he said i already told you that. I hung up, called my parents, who were both fine, then filed a report. Im in Colorado.