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- Litchfield, OH, USA

received two calls on cell phone 8/17/16 requesting me to call immediately as there was something on my tax documents showing I was trying to fraud the government.

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Received a call this morning saying that I am the winner of 2 million dollars and a car.

The girl said she is calling from the Publishers clearing house.

The call came from Jamaica, 1-876-527-3610

T will not hold my breath waiting for the clearing house to come to my door with the money,

Just thought you would like to know. Thankyou....

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This past Monday morning, August 15, 2016, someone with a "private number" telephoned my parents, who are 83 and 76 years old and live in zip code 35811, and pretended to be a grandson. Shortly into the casual conversation, there was a staged arrest. Someone calling himself Captain John Rockford was apparently very intimidating, and he insisted my parents go to Best Buy (University Parkway) and purchase $4,000 worth of iTunes gift cards, in $500 increments to keep the grandson out of jail or something to that effect.

My parents went to Best Buy, purchased the cards on their Discover credit card, went home and called "Capt. Rockford" back at 866-536-2913 and read the iTunes card numbers to him. It wasn't until later in the day that they realized the grandson had not been arrested and that they had been scammed.

My wife and I began immediately on Monday afternoon (same day) calling Best Buy, Discover, Apple, and Mediacom to try to stop the transactions at some point in the process. The local Best Buy takes no responsibility for selling an 83-year-old $4,000 in iTunes cards (I'm sure they were glad to get the sales boost for the day), although we have filed a fraud report with their corporate Best Buy office. So far, Discover has refused to stop payment or take any responsibility, although I thought most credit card companies had algorithms to flag unusual purchases of large amounts. (We don't use Discover, but we've had American Express as well as our credit union call us about attempted fraudulent transactions.) Apple tried to be helpful, but after our spending 1.5 hours on the phone with them they said the eight $500 iTunes cards had already been spent and there was nothing else they could do. Mediacom says they have no way of identifying the phone number the initial call originated from.

Sometime today, my parents are supposed to have a law enforcement person from Madison County come to their house to get a police report filed. Apple or Best Buy one also suggested filing a report with the FBI, but we aren't sure about how to do that. Perhaps the police officer can make that determination.

In doing our research following this incident, we found that my parents are not alone in being victims of this scam. Here is a similar report out of a TV station in Charlotte, NC:

http://www.wfmynews2.com/money/consumer/scammers-turn-to-itunes-cards/298338635

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same recorded message as I received a week ago from a different number, claiming the IRS was taking action against whoever happened to answer the phone.

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From:

Subject: [ Welcome to MS-A selection's ]

Date: August 14, 2016 at 12:41:22 PM CDT

To: [email protected]

Reply-To:

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Dear candidate,

We have a job in your area and we would like you to participate

and complete the assignment.

Job Description :

1. You will receive funds for the task.

2. You will receive instructions for the task you via email in

the location and details of the task.

3. You must complete the task as quickly as possible and quietly.

Once you sign up you will access to training materials and

consederation.

The assignment will give you $300 per job of 2 assignment a week.

Provide the following information below if you interested:

1. First Name:

2. Last Name:

3. Email:

4. Street:

5. Citys-States-Countrys:

6. ZIP Code:

7. Phone:

8. Gender:

Thank you for participation. Your response would be greatly

appreciated.

Best Regards,

Kenny Miller

Official Recruitment

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I've been contacted many time with different telephone numbers saying the same thing that I won $1,500, 000 plus a car. The last caller wanted $9 on every dollar but would call back with more details for processing the fee for the winnings.

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- Spring, TX, USA

person identifing herself with the irs threatening lawsuit against me and wanting me to call 12137056806

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have received a seemingly legit email from the following address as follows. also i remember long ago there was a bbb email you could forward these things to. what is that email? thanks

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Billing access Add to contacts

To:

[email protected]

Suspicious Transaction.

Your account just make suspicious transaction, We've temporary limited your account due to this suspicious activity until the issue is resolved.

If You didn't authorize this transaction, please dispute transaction soon.

I Didn't Authorize This Purchase (this was a link to here - http://bit.ly/2b2t1X6 )

Here is transaction detail :

To : Ralf Lenferding

To email : [email protected]

Transaction date : Aug 02, 2016

Transaction ammount : $84.7 USD

Transaction ID : 1BR2DC175442PS5426323S

Note : Ship to Ahlener Str. 82, 59073 Hamm, Deutschland

Phone : 023819979376

Please login to your account and provide the requested information to dispute this transaction before Aug 05, 2016.

If we don't receive the requested information soon, We can't refund your money and your account may be closed without any notification.

Sincerely,

PayPal

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email end

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- Truth Or Consequences, NM, USA

robocall about time shares. did not give name of company.

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Att came up on caller id. He said because of our good credit, we would get $10,200 free and clear. No taxes, etc. then he wanted personal information. He stated that once I gave him the information, he would transfer me to the finance department, who would then cut my check. When I asked for a legitimate number that I could call a verify, he said, I first had to give my info.

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Mechanical maybe computer generated voice, called and left a voice mail that I was being sued and to call 510-455-4353.

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- Los Angeles, CA, USA

I was called several times and left a message that I was being sought by the IRS. I called the number back and a man with an Asian Indian accent answered the phone, "Internal Revenue Service".

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I keep receiving phone calls saying tat there is a law suite against me from the IRS. Call 314-225-1604.

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This phone number some how has my contact information and they keep sending my texts (and I think phone calls from an "unknown" phone number about how my loans qualify for forgiveness through the department of education. As someone who works for a federal student loan servicer, this type of offer is a scam. There is no immediate forgiveness options through the department of education, but there are programs available where federal student loan borrowers can apply and work towards forgiveness. All of these options are free through the department of education but this company is presenting itself as one where they can "get you this great deal" if I make payments to them for a few months. In my work experience these companies have borrowers pay hundreds of dollars to have the company fill out paperwork for them. I have refused to contact this company back out of fear of them continuing to contact me or gaining more of my personal information.

Copy of text messages I have received -

from text number 417-82:

"Your student loans qualify for forgiveness through the Department of Education. For more information immediately call 1-888-588-7534"

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- Fairfax, VA, USA

caller identified himself as IRS representative. Stated I needed to consolidate a bill for $6,000.00 or they would freeze all my accounts. They did have a lot of my information.

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Auto call indicated that I had won a cruise and that I needed to complete a phone survey at which point I hung up.

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Robocall talking about special deals on a medical alert system for seniors. Did not give the name of the company. Onvoy VOIP

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They said that I had recently used my debit card with a company they were affiliated with. They said if I gave them $1.95 then I would I receive a $250 voucher for utilies. So I gave them my debit card, and several days later someone tried to take out $90 of cosmetics. I think my bank said it was from the UK. Then they also took out another $19.95. My bank contacted me.

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Received two voice mails on home telephone. Person calling was named Steve and said we would be arrested if we did not contact them at 202-558-6685. They said they were with the IRS and we were in big trouble. Just letting you know the phone number the call came from. I tried to call back but the recording said they were too busy to answer the phone.

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Someone claiming to be from Dominion Power threatened to disconnect power if payment was not made

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