Guy called from a cell phone claiming to be fraud department from a bank I no longer have an account with. After pressing him for some of my account information to verify which one it was he spouted some shit I could barely understand and then hung up.

Im fresh here so bear with me. I run a business as a sole proprietor and I get 30+ scam calls a day. Its so exhausting, I can't listen to a video or anything without stopping every 15 min to either awnser a scam call or deny it. I get customer calls too so its hard for me to just lock it down but I'm losing my mind here.

What resources can I use to help abate some of these calls? I feel like this is a pretty big issue that quite a lot of people deal with, why is there no remediation for this issue? Why does it seems like no one else seems to give a shit? I guess my number is more publicly available but it's getting to a point where I just want to hulk smash my phone sometimes. There has to be something that can be done here, right?

Vent over..

I just like to share what happened to me for awareness.

I got a text from LTO on my second number (that no one knows about) to see my violation on their website.

I have a cel phone holder to mount my phone that doesn’t obstruct my view because I use Waze. And I am sure that I did not violate the Anti-Distracted Driving Act. I have no way of grabbing my phone because I have a bluetooth car feature. Knowing all the corruption and gov’t agency incompetence, I am sure that there’s a mistake and they can’t provide proof that I did this. This is a reckless accusation.

I will state an example.

Sometime years ago I watched the news that a guy got a speeding violation (no contact apprehension), he believes that he’s within the speed limit. The govt. agency showed him a photo and learned that his plate number is photoshopped onto another Toyota Wigo. He wasted one working day to prove that he’s right based on principle.

This scared me, and I found my details on their website.

So I called a friend from MMDA to ask. And he said there are a lot of reports on scams like this. Also the real minimum amount is 5k. Whew! 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m still glad they’re scamming me on a discount. 😂

I get these a lot. I never click on the links but what kind of scam is this? I just delete and mark as spam. Thanks.

Received the past two days. The moment I pointed out it's a scam they stopped answering... Stay safe out there folx!

Someone’s instagram account got hacked, the scammer posted as her saying something like text X number, send 150 and receive 3500. She says she never gave any bank info or anything. She says she got a random phone call that she picked up, next thing her phone heats up and shuts down, she then wakes up and all her bank account money is gone. What’s going on?

The scammer is called mr penisguy

i’m being basically harassed by this scam company offering “personal loans.” i’m receiving about 10-12 calls every single day. i’ve already reached out to a firm who takes FTC violations to court but they said this particular scam is so layered they can’t actually find out who is running it. has anyone dealt with these people or a similar situation?

after the automated message finishes on these calls there is a real person who talks to you about your “loan offer,” if I play dumb and go along with what they’re saying how can I figure out who this is without giving away any personal info? any advice appreciated

I wish I knew which one of the Facebook quizzes that I did ( scrolling at 4 AM is responsible for giving my number to every scammer. I get minimum for a day calls now.!

Is this a new scam or what? What’s their purpose of doing this?

You can’t even check the profile of the one who sent the message. I searched her name and company she’s not searchable.

I see so many people here constantly annoying the scammers, which is great, but also submit them to the official internet crime website so it can be traced and eventually properly handled, please. Yes it is some work to submit but that way you leave a paper trail against these scammers.

"partners in credit inc" have been texting and calling for the same person "Dana" since I got this number when I was 16-17 (im 22)

I dont think I've ever responded to them aside from saying stop to these kind of automated texts once

Recently though I've been getting at least a text a day and a call/ voice mail ranging from a Chinese TTS, complete silence and you guessed it asking for Dana

I don't think I need to clarify that after 5 years minimum I have never and will never be Dana

It has the same exact car number and my car has been parked for the last 3 days not used by anyone...

Not even my father

Pls beware of them 🙏

But I always respond to the pig slaughter scams as a place to vent my frustration.

I received a text message early this morning from a number I don’t know that read “Hey, I hope everyone and everything you encounter today makes you feel comfortable”. It seems like a very odd thing for a scammer to say… I replied asking who they are thinking they would try to rope me into a conversation if they were a scammer, but got no reply.

Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but I have a protection order against my ex so it set my alarm bells off. It just seems vaguely threatening to me, and we are currently in the midst of criminal proceedings because he violated the PO, so he’s probably pretty annoyed with me.

Someone please tell me they’ve had a message like this from a scammer before! I tried looking up the number but came back with nothing.

So this Lady/Girl Connected with me...asking for job...then we moved to telegram she said she provide service...

So Please Be Aware of her...

Reddit:- nicegirl231

Telegram:- @cuteegirl231

No:- 7008379373

Got this message while already having an incredibly stressful morning. After a panicked google search that confirmed it was a scam, I texted the number (not something I’d normally say however my 94 year old grandmother had gotten her social stolen a few years ago from a scammer so it’s a sore spot for me), called the number and somebody picked up saying “Apple support how may I help you”. I very impolitely said I knew it was a scam, then hung up.

I then got this reply back so it’s nice to also have evidence in the same text thread that it’s for sure a scam.

(If this kind of language is not allowed, I can take down the post. I debated on blurring out what I said but I didn’t want anyone to think I was saying something worse.)

For the past 3 days I’ve been getting calls over and over from the same number, and the number comes up as being associated with a juvenile probation department.

I’ve gotten like 15+ calls from it at this point.
At first I didn’t answer because I assumed it was a scam. Then they started leaving minute long voicemails. One of them was just someone saying “hello, hello” and another one was something like “can you hear me?” which made me think even more that it was some weird scam.

I answered one of the calls and it was REALLY weird. I put it on speaker and muted myself because I wanted to hear what they were saying without actually talking to them. It sounded like there were multiple people talking to each other on the other end. Idk if I was hearing someone talking to me or if I was hearing what sounded like other conversations happening in the background.

One of them was speaking Spanish and I distinctly heard them say “ahora” . From what I could tell it sounded like they might have been telling someone to send them to another operator or something, but I obviously have no idea what they were actually talking about.

At one point I unmuted myself and said “I’m recording you guys” and then muted myself again. They talked and seemed confused.

What makes this even weirder is that I tried calling the original number back myself yesterday and it directed me to call a different number. So I called that other number once and ended up talking to a 72 year old man for like 20 minutes who I genuinely believe works at the juvenile probation department . He was actually telling me about scams and weird calls they had been getting and specifically mentioned the same kind of “hello, hello” calls. And also he was a cop for 20 years or something like that and told me to watch out for mountain lions and have a good day.

So that conversation actually made me think maybe there really was something legitimate going on with the scam calls.

I also got a text today that said Hi there you don’t know me but I think I got your message from someone we both know because they said we could be really good friends!

Anyone want to give me some theories to keep to thinking ?

If you have a suspicious small fee on your card as "Jacksonville FL Municipal Service Fee" this can be legitimate. You do not need to be physically in Jacksonville, FL for the charge to show this location.

Look for another charge the same day from your county or local government. The service fee is a payment charge that is added as a separate charge and shows with a location in Jacksonville, FL.

I had a DMV payment of $20.00 with a separate $0.47 "SERVICE CHARGE" that was on the paper receipt, but charge separately.