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Old 10-04-2016, 09:31 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, N.C.
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phone calls, e mails and now real snail mail. We all have to be very careful.

Warning: There's a new IRS scam coming to your mailbox | Clark Howard
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Old 10-04-2016, 10:13 AM
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My email account must be on the scam-of-the-month mailing list because I seem to get them ALL. Most of them are laughable in the extreme but if I'm in the mood I'll string them along and waste as MUCH of their time as possible. The IRS scam letter was just too obvious but sadly there was no pre-paid postage for an empty gift card so I trashed it...<sigh>
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Old 10-04-2016, 10:45 AM
 
Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I'm getting very tired of the phone call scam, 2-3 times a week. I have reported it to the various agencies but it continues.
There has been so much publicity that it's hard to imagine anyone dumb enough to fall for it, but if they were not getting some people to bite they would stop.
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Old 10-04-2016, 04:22 PM
 
Location: Ponte Vedra Beach FL
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I'm getting very tired of the phone call scam, 2-3 times a week. I have reported it to the various agencies but it continues.
There has been so much publicity that it's hard to imagine anyone dumb enough to fall for it, but if they were not getting some people to bite they would stop.
Get a new phone number. We did when we changed from AT&T to Xfinity and most scammers haven't found us yet . Robyn
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Old 10-04-2016, 04:27 PM
 
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I am sick of that robo call from a woman who says.........."We checked your credit cards and everything is ok, but you are paying too high of an interest rate. Press ...1..to get your rate lowered"


I don't have any credit cards but I press...1...to ask which credit cards they are talking about.


Then I laugh and laugh while some guy from Nigeria ? gets mad and calls me a "m,fer" over and over and over.
He ends it by saying............" go "f" yourself"
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Old 10-04-2016, 05:45 PM
 
Location: SoCal
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I don't pick up the phone for this reason.
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Old 10-06-2016, 11:23 AM
 
Location: prescott az
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If I don't recognize the number, it can ring until it snows in Phoenix.
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Old 10-06-2016, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Sugarmill Woods , FL
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Shut them down......Mr. number! http://mrnumber.com/
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Old 10-06-2016, 11:38 AM
 
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Our phone rings at all hours. My latest and greatest trick (when I get tired of the repeat calls) is to pick up the phone and hold the reciever in front of the TV. (You can hear them starting their speel - then they finally hang up) My favorite was when we were watching some show on Hitler on the History Channel and the phone rang. The guy they were interviewing on TV was speaking in German. I cranked up the sound and held the reciever up to the TV until they hung up.
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Old 10-06-2016, 08:05 PM
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I got a letter from the IRS. It was mailed in a cheap envelope and inside was a horrible, barely readable copy of form letter with some "fields" filled out.

Basically, it said thanks for the money, but you never filed a return.

Long story short.....it WAS from the IRS. But my wife looked at the letter and ALMOST threw it away since it looked like a scam letter. The IRS really needs to send more professional looking letters!!

That led to a adventure where the IRS lost THREE copies of my return!!
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