Fraud

[OLDMDDEM]

I just received a recorded phone call from "Amanda" at the Social Security Administration saying my social security number has been used for fraudulent activity in south Texas. Obviously I hung up. I always report these phone numbers to the Do Not Call List. My issue is, why isn't anything being done about these issues. I can't tell you how many times I have been called about a back brace available thru Medicare. I also reported those numbers. I have even gotten calls from "U.S. Courts." When I answered, the young man said "Hi grandpa." My first questions is "who is this?" It's your grandson, grandpa. My response is always "when is your birthday?" Then, crickets and they hang up.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. "We need your last four digits..."

Bastards should be found, exposed, prosecuted and jailed.

[OLDMDDEM]

2. As Dumpy's lawyer would say

Taken out at dawn and shot.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Dumpy already has the order all ready.

Firing squads, poison gas, electrocution: DOJ rule change gives feds execution options beyond lethal injection

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/27/federal-death-sentences-could-use-firing-squads-new-rule-says/6442676002/

[Roland99]

4. reporting the phone number is likely absolutely useless

phone numbers are often spoofed nowadays to resemble a number (area code and exchange) the same as your own to make you think it's someone you know (family, friend, co-worker) to get you to actually answer the call.

I get these calls in spurts. Sometimes I'll play along for 5-10 minutes just to mess with them (can be fun)

[OLDMDDEM]

6. I can see where that would be fun

I report the call because I feel better doing it. I just wish the results would be known and harsh.

[Roland99]

8. OMG! I just got a call. It was the horribly accented computer voice

I pressed 1 and someone with a heavy Indian accent came on the line and asked how he could help me

I told him that HE called ME.

He goes, no sir. You received a voicemail and pressed 1.

I said, well, YOU called ME. What's up?

*click*

[OLDMDDEM]

9. These calls are totally out of control

Congress needs to do SOMETHING to fix this.

[Roland99]

10. and another. Like I said...they come in batches

[jcgoldie]

5. They are calling from outside the country

And they bounce from one number to the next. Very hard to police it. Just have to inform people that noone from a government agency will call them asking for personal info. For me its always a computer generated voice from the IRS and its urgent I should call them back immediately or go to jail or something... oh well been getting the call for years never returned it still walking free... guess the IRS will get me soon as they finish with trump’s tax returns.

[MineralMan]

7. It's difficult to prosecute such things.

In the first place, phone numbers are spoofed, or the cell phones used by the callers are cheap burner phones that can't be traced to an individual.

Sadly, many people, particularly elders, are fooled by such calls. The results can be devastating.

My current cell phone carrier lets me send all calls not from numbers on my contact list directly to voice mail without ringing the phone. Oddly enough, none of those calls seem to generate any actual voice mail. I check my voice mail a couple of times a day.