Just got a call from "State Farm"

[Ron Obvious]

From someone called Haley or Ashley "about the claim on your car".

They left a message a week ago and i then called our local agent who confirmed there is no such claim. It did indeed say "State Farm" on the caller id, but there were a number of red flags, not least of which was the fact that she called me on a Sunday. Also the oddly non-specific language.

Anyone else get such a call lately? I'm not saying it's absolutely a scam, but I'd not give out any information just in case and call back instead.

ETA: Should've mentioned that we do indeed have car insurance with State Farm. I imagine that's something they can look up in a public database.

[Demobrat]

1. No, but I just got a text from CVS

saying they wanted to give me a $100 credit as a Customer Appreciation Giveaway. Happens to be my birthday today.

$100! YAY!

[Delmette2.0]

7. I get that about once a month.

I have never shopped there. I just keep deleting them.

[Lucinda]

2. knr

[Ron Obvious]

4. Kaalalit Nunaat Radio?

Korean National Railroad?

[lastlib]

13. "Kick & Recommend"

"Kicking" gets a post moved up the feed for visibility; "Recommend"--res ipsa loquitor.

[Ron Obvious]

14. I think I actually knew that..

Or should have....

[Xavier Breath]

3. If Jake calls don't ask what he's wearing. n/t

[NurseJackie]

27. Awww... Jake from State Farm is cute.

[MustLoveBeagles]

36. Yes he is

[Demovictory9]

37. very cute.

[Tracer]

39. Cute sure, but he is the second "Jake".

The first one was a shlumpy white guy wearing "khakis".

[Demovictory9]

42. Yep..Jake #1 did get to be one one commercial with jake #2

[634-5789]

5. No, but CVS wanted to 'update our records'....

[dchill]

22. It's not CVS. It's a scam.

[634-5789]

32. We're well aware it's a scam.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Best thing would be to call your agent. Or the local agency.

[Ron Obvious]

8. That's what we did.

When they left a message a week ago, but the agent didn't say anything about a known scam going around either.

Call me a cynic but even the name "Ashley" or "Haley" sounded wrong to me somehow. Too generic maybe.

I suspect that's why they called on a Sunday: so I couldn't call my agent back to confirm right away.

[70sEraVet]

9. I'm trying HARD to get in the habit of not paying attention to phone calls.

I was raised in a different era. We regarded a telephone call as an important thing, and we spoke politely.
It is literally hard for me to ignore a phone call, and I find it difficult to be suspicious when I do answer.
However, your post gave me a thought; if you do choose to answer, and you are asked to provide ANY information, just reply that you do not give any information over the phone, and would they please send you a letter about the issue they wish to discuss.

[Ron Obvious]

12. Yeah, same here.

We're too nice for this era.

Good advice.

[lastlib]

15. Wish I could train my mother (age 93) to ignore calls.....

It would save me a HELLUVA lot of trouble fending off scams & spam.

[treestar]

38. Exactly

I ask my mother what are answering machines for? She rushes to get the phone and for her landline, it is now mostly just scams and solicitations and a few doctor offices confirming appointments.

[alphafemale]

44. And never reply "Yes" if an unknown caller asks if you are"Your Name."

They can put any recording in front of that and make it seem as if you agreed.

train yourself to say "Why do you ask?" Or something like that.

I simply do not answer an unknown number Not ever.

If it is something legitimate and important they can leave a message

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. It sounds like somebody trying to get your personal info from a spoofed number.

[marie999]

11. I figure 10% of the calls I receive are legit and 5% of the texts.

I find that if you ask them a question like what state are they in and they just keep asking you the same question over and over you can be sure it's a scam.

[hlthe2b]

16. Your phone record if you hit on your calls should let you identify the actual number called.

Which you could either google or call yourself to see if it actually is State Farm or not. There is software that allows such caller id spoofing (I'm told).

At least on I-phones you can identify the number in many/most cases.

[Ron Obvious]

18. This was on our "landline"

Really a Vonage line, but it's the one State Farm has for us. The number was 1-855-341-8184, and googling that got me reports saying both that it was legit, and others that it wasn't so that doesn't resolve it.

[hlthe2b]

20. What happens when you call it? (maybe use your cell)

[Ron Obvious]

25. State Farm answered

Saying they have a record for a claim matching our phone number. Could be legit, but it then wanted me to put in the claim number to verify and I don't have one so I didn't bother.

[hlthe2b]

26. Then, I agree with others. Let your agent deal with it.

[ret5hd]

17. "What are you wearing...Ashley from State Farm???"

[sarcasmo]

19. Had a text last night from Pizza Hut, saying my pizza was on the way.

I never ordered a pizza.

[nocoincidences]

21. I consider spam/scam calls the perfect opportunity

to vent my anxiety and frustration at the state of the world.

If it is a (real) female person, I will be abrupt and sometimes mildly rude.

If it is a male caller, I am abrupt and depending on their reaction to that, I just hang up....or I spew a stream of venomous curses at the top of my lungs ending in repeated FU! FU! FU! .

It feels terrific!

[Silent3]

23. We finally dropped our land lines a few months ago...

…because they became nothing other than a source of scam calls and possibly legit but still annoying calls.

We were a little reluctant to give them up because they weren’t that expensive, a lot of people knew those phone numbers, and sometimes our cell signal is weak, especially if we’re in the basement.

I’ve got my cell phone so heavily filtered that I sometimes miss calls I want to get. Only known callers from known numbers get straight through, everything else is either rejected or sent to voicemail.

It pisses me off that scammers and telemarketers have ruined phone service like this.

[Ron Obvious]

24. We had that number for over 30 years

It rings several times a day and we don't answer it, but this one said "State Farm".

I'm having a hard time justifying our continued use of this number but we're strangely reluctant to let it go all the same.

[tblue37]

30. I have a landline with a piggy-backed number that rings twice. I give that number to

friends and family. I check the calling number on single ring calls, but don't answer if there is no ID and I don't recognize the number.

[Wounded Bear]

41. I maintained a landline for several years once because the pizza parlor wouldn't...

accept my cell phone as a contact. That was many years ago, of course.

[Midnight Writer]

28. I got a call this week that my car warranty was about to expire.

Luckily, they were able to reach me on the very last day.

I was able to renew for only three hundred dollars. If it had been just one day later, my warranty would have expired and it would have cost me twice that to reinstate it.

I guess they couldn't process my first credit card number I gave them. I had to give them another one to make sure it would go through alright.

[Ron Obvious]

29. I hope you were being sarcastic

Classic scam. There are times when I'm glad my parents are long dead. They would probably have fallen for calls like that.

[Midnight Writer]

31. My parents have been dead for over 30 years, and I still get mail for them about their car warranty.

So, yes, I am familiar with the scam.

[FakeNoose]

33. I get fake emails from "Amazon" telling me they're closing my account

[Hekate]

34. We're getting similar calls quite regularly. I hang up just as regularly. nt

[hatrack]

35. I had to get a new cell phone last week, and switched providers when I did . . .

One cool new feature is that the calls from New York, Virginia and North Carolina (where I know no one) now show up as 'Likely Scam" in my call history and "Likely Scam" makes up about two-thirds of my call history.

[BSdetect]

40. I had a call from Door Dash NY We are in CA Obvious scam

[Xolodno]

43. I switched our land line to Ooma (internet phone) ages ago.

Its about $5 a month. I also turned all the ringers off. I use the number for rewards, timeshare inspired giveaways, etc. If they leave a message, I get an alert on my cell and can access it from there.

Every once in awhile its legit. But most of the time...

Car Warranty
Solar deal that's about to expire.
"Police Department"
Debt collector for my deadbeat sister or my father who has been dead for over 10 years (answered one once for my dad and told to get lost...had the nerve to ask for a copy of the death certificate, told them to fuck off and they can pay for that themselves).
etc.

The odd one I get on my cell via text is "At&T wants to thank me for being a loyal customer and follow this link". My wife and I share a facebook account so the name is a bit weird. While back our account got hacked, no big deal, just changed the password. But its fairly obvious the ATT is a scam because they use the facebook name.