A Scam That Costs New Yorkers Tens of Thousands of Dollars Is Growing (credit, purchase)

[Mr. Ryu]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

How about: "Lower your interest charges to 0%...Just press ONE"...I get that almost daily.

I get one about my car-loan. about lowering my mortgage payment..

[Aeran]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

by the way, adding your number to the national do not call register actually does help cut down robo calls by a lot. Even if you added it a long time ago add it again because they've dropped numbers over the years for some reason

https://www.donotcall.gov/

I've done this numerous times and calls still get through. Annoying as all he**.
I know this is nothing new, but I didn't know people (particularly seniors) are still falling for it.
I'm glad random people (cashiers, bank tellers, even taxi drivers) are on alert and letting seniors know they're being scammed. I've since been alerting all the seniors I know of this scam...just in case.

[BlakeJones]

This is my favorite solution to nailing scammers:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...app-explainer/

When you get a scam call, the app generates a fake but trackable credit card number that you give to the con guy. When they try to run the card, their account gets traced and you can find them and even file a lawsuit against them

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by Cida

It's not new, though.

I heard a fun story, that the grandparent getting the scam call prudently said, "Honey, tell me your date of birth."

The scammer hurriedly hung up.

That is priceless.

[Kefir King]

How about the Con Ed "apology."

[city living]

Originally Posted by Mr. Ryu

I also get those robocalls. "rambling Chinese from time to time."

Over the past year those have grown tremendously.

My voicemail was full for months and I finally deleted them the other day. Most of them scam calls, probably 5-6 screaming at me in Chinese.

I also got a scam text which I called the number for just to see. It asked me for my CC number so I just started typing in all kinds of crap.

[RICANRICAN]

Originally Posted by Mr. Ryu

I also get those robocalls. "rambling Chinese from time to time."

That scam looking for mainland chinese there is video about it on youtube it says " your family member is in trouble with the government just pay us XXXX to get out of it" It's a yuge scam here in NYC and Cali!

[SeventhFloor]

It's not all elderly falling for this, only the ones that have lost their wits about them

[martinjsxx]

I used to get robocalls from ‘Microsoft’ that they were going out of business and they owed me a refund.

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

by the way, adding your number to the national do not call register actually does help cut down robo calls by a lot. Even if you added it a long time ago add it again because they've dropped numbers over the years for some reason

https://www.donotcall.gov/

I thought about adding my number, but then didn't as I don't get many of these calls. If it does become a problem for me, I'll add my number ASAP!