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Victim Location 80550
Type of a scam Tax Collection

Leaves me voicemails several times a day. Calls himself Mason S*** (or S***?) and threatens me. Says he's coming to my home and work to serve me papers- and that I'm going to jail if I don't call him back. He says in the voicemails that I will face legal repercussions and he will call my local PD to have me arrested if I don't answer my door when he or his agents come to my home. He says he'll be there within 48 hours. He has no regional accent, he is a middle age or older white guy, and there is no noise in the background on the voicemails. I block the calls, so he just fills up my voicemail box with messages.

Victim Location 48466
Type of a scam Government Grant

Someone created another account posing as my uncle, messaged me saying he was looking for ways to spend his grant $, which is believable because my uncle is a county commissioner. We then called my uncle to see if it was him, and it wasn’t. I was being directed to follow a link to a “recruiter’s” messenger to help me “apply for the grant too”

The message with the link was:

This is the online agent who helped me get mine, her name is Sarah Kecy. Click on the link, it will direct you to her messenger page. Add her and send a message that you want to apply for a grant

https://m.me/Sarahkecyfed.gov

Victim Location 97539
Type of a scam Phishing

I got a call answering with my name since I am a realtor. They asked, "is this *name*? And I said yeah. Then they hung up... I remembered hearing about the yes scam and now I'm worried... Not sure if yeah works... There was talking noise in the back ground like they were in a call center.

Victim Location 48309
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations

Possible scam alert from 313-406-7662 robo-call "can you hear me clearly/" I answered yes before I realized it was an automated call. Be careful on this one. This phone number should be shut-down Not scammed yet but I am alerting my bank not to accept any unusual charges. I believe I am on the do not call list.

Victim Location 80504
Total money lost $750
Type of a scam Tech Support

This number continuously calls saying that my computer has a virus and that my information is being used in *** and this could jeopardize my life in the **, I fell for this and paid them the money to protect me. They now never stop calling me. When I did fall for this as soon as I paid them I heard cheering in the background and heard someone say "Stupid Americans"

Victim Location 28584
Type of a scam Phishing

it was a robot call from an un named co. scam. read news articles. did not say yes to it. it was calling from wilmington, Lumberton for example.

Victim Location 53719
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations

Picked up a call around noon CST. The caller started to say I was eligible for a free vacation because I had stayed at one of their resorts previously. I had not given my information or stayed at a resort recently and this seems a "to good to be true" kind of scenario, so at this point I had hung up immediately at this point which is why I do not have much else to offer up.

Original number was 405-503-8893. Other numbers are calls I have received and not picked up because my phone said Oklahoma (where I have no friends or family) and none of the numbers have left a message so far.

Potentially useful - I am a Project Fi subscriber, so the scammers could be exploiting my number from Google, T-Mobile (as I have experienced before), US Cellular, or Sprint.

Seems related to: http://kfor.com/2017/01/30/can-you-hear-me-okay-scam-hits-oklahoma/

Victim Location 65536
Type of a scam Phishing

Scammer refused to identify themselves but had crucial information for which to verify my identity, which I refused to do. I asked several times who they were but they would not answer my question about their identity. My phone # is on the National Do Not Call Registry. I explained that they should not have any identifying information about me and respectively hung up.

Crystal

Victim Location 82001
Type of a scam Charity

The person on the other line or recording, asked "if this was(my name)", and what out thinking I said, "yes". There was no response or reply.

Victim Location 92620
Type of a scam Credit Cards

They keep calling to talk about credit scores etc.

Victim Location 62702
Type of a scam Identity Theft

it is a recorded message that tells me someone in the state of Alabama has my SS# and is trying to use it to file a tax return. got a second call from Texas for the same thing which has already been reported per the internet.

Victim Location 34471
Total money lost $373,060
Type of a scam Fake Invoice/Supplier Bill

WE RECEIVED FAKE EMAILS FROM THIS COMPANY REQUESTING MONEY. 4 CHECKS WERE SENT TO THEM ON 10/26/17, 11/20/17, 12/11/17 TOTALING $ 373,060.00. ANOTHER FAKE EMAIL WAS RECEIVED LAST WEEK REQUESTING $ 600K. WE HAVE CONTACTED THE FBI, THE OCALA POLICE, THE AVON POLICE, THE FLORIDA ATTY GENERAL AND THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. SUBPOENAS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. A PRIVATE CONTRACTOR EXAMINED THE EMAILS AND DETERMINED THEM TO BE PHISHING OR SPOOFING AT A PROFESSION LEVEL. PLEASE WARN OTHERS. WE NEED TO GET OUR MONEY BACK.

Victim Location 32258
Type of a scam Phishing

received a call asking if I was "name"

I instinctively answered "yes" at which point the caller hung-up.

Suspect this to be a phishing call just to obtain a "yes" response.

Victim Location 63021
Type of a scam Phishing

I received a call from this phone number. The person said my name and they sounded a bit strange. I replied with "What" and they person on the phone said may name, I replied "yes" and they hung up. I'm guessing they are trying to use my "Yes" reply for some use like opening up a credit card. It was early in the morning so I wasn't thinking 100%, I know better than to say "yes" just be careful everyone and just ask "who is this calling and what is it in regards to".

I tried to call the number back and it appears to be a bogus phone line. Hence the reason I think this person is going to try to use it against me in a scam or to open a credit card.

Victim Location 30236
Type of a scam Travel/Vacations

01-29-2018

I received a call from 404-334-4159 around 11:20 AM this morning. Did not recognize the number so I did not answer the call. Caller did not leave voice mail. I "googled" the number; result stated that it was some kind of "travel scam" that someone had reported on 01-03-2018. I am reporting it to BBB.

Thank you for your assistance in stopping this scam.

Victim Location 64110
Type of a scam Phishing

"Yes" scam. Asked me if I could hear them. I answered "yes" and they hung up. The telephone number they called from was 1-816-708-3127. I have received several calls from this number before and ignored it. Decided to finally answer since no one would leave a message.

Victim Location 65674
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order

Do not call this number back. It is a scam offering a check in the amount of $765,500.00 dollars. It is under the giese of the UN Settlement Program.

Victim Location 44212
Type of a scam Tech Support

Received a text message stating the following. "Dear User, Your credit card is charged with 499.99 for 1 year PC Tech Support. If you did not authorize this transaction, please call 18664179500 immediately." I did not call the number but wanted to report this information to you. I verified with my banks and accounts that nothing was charged. I just wanted to make you aware of this phishing scam.

Victim Location 91326
Type of a scam Credit Cards

Machine sounds female. "I'm calling long distance, can you hear me?" I said yes. I've never heard of this scam. My wife heard me respond, nudged me with her elbow and said to hang up it's a scam. Machine asked if still used visa or MasterCard. Even had a slight stutter to simulate human error or tendencies.

Victim Location 26372
Type of a scam Phishing

On 25 January 2018, I received a series of phone call on my cell phone from Florida Area Code 954. There has been repeated phone calls from all the scammer phone number reported above with no voice mail messages left on my phone. I decided to respond to the last one 954-709-3673. The man that spoke on the phone told me if I was the person involved in a car accident in Fort Lauderdale. I rapidly told him that I do not live in FL at this time since I live in West Virginia. I told him that his information was incorrect and he said well it is in your records with the DMV and you need to call them. I asked him to provide me more details on the nature of his call and he basically hang off the call. I tried to call back and the voice machine does not provide a name beside asking me to leave a message under the phone number. I was worried that they might have been something on my past record with DMV as I have a small beach house on *** ***, FL on the gulf coast. I called the DMV and they told me that there was nothing / nor any issues on my record. I tried to call the other numbers and I am getting the same email answering machine just repeating the number that I am calling. I left a message to say that I was going to report them to the BBB as trying to fraud people.