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the Musigician
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Originally Posted by gma2rjc
I got at least 3 calls from them last week. "Hello! This is Rachel from Card Services....".
With technology changing so fast, maybe someday there will be a way to reach our hands through the phone lines and choke the morons making these calls.  |
You mean Rachael isn't a real person? But... but... she said if I gave her my information that her and I could go out tonight and celebrate! You mean she's not going to show up? After I took a BATH and EVERYthing??????
....dammit....
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07-01-2012, 01:41 PM
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Location: West Michigan
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Originally Posted by creeper
A high pitched whistle may make them regret dialing you.
I was giving the microsoft guy a hard time so he threatened to shut my computer down. When I laughed at him he just hung up and I haven't heard from them again since
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Good idea! I think I have a good whistle around here somewhere. I'm going to try it.
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Originally Posted by DangerMouse
You mean Rachael isn't a real person? But... but... she said if I gave her my information that her and I could go out tonight and celebrate! You mean she's not going to show up? After I took a BATH and EVERYthing??????
....dammit....
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Whoa! Wait a minute! Is it even legal for a telemarketer to lie like that? You should report her. 
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07-03-2012, 10:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim F
It goes something like this: You have been selected by the National Scholarship Bureau to receive a $7000.00 scholarship". The caller has a foreign accent and they try to trick college students into wiring them several hundred dollars via Western Union. They have been in operation for several years and have used the same few phone numbers and same phony names. Apparently they are outside of U.S. Jutice Dept's jurisdiction. If you have kids in college beware!
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Ooh I know. I got a similar call once. The guy sounded like indian or something like that but he asked me to transfer money via Money Gram. Never ever send money with WU or Money gram. that's the first sign of a scam
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07-15-2012, 08:49 AM
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the Musigician
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thank you for starting a forum like this. We all need to know about scammers.
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You mean scammers like YOU, right?
*bye now!*
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09-17-2012, 05:49 PM
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A little over a week ago I placed an ad on Craigslist for a vehicle I have for sale. I had no response until yesterday when I received an e-mail asking if the vehicle was still available, I responded simply with “yes it is” today I received another e-mail from the same person I attached below.
I have no doubt this is a scam but has anyone seen this one before, do people really fall for this crap?
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09-17-2012, 06:15 PM
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Location: West Michigan
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They're scum.
The only nice thing about those idiots is that they have poor grammar skills, which makes it obvious that they're thieves.
I'm still getting calls from "Rachel at Card Services". I wish the FCC could do something about 'her'.
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09-17-2012, 06:21 PM
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the Musigician
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I'm still getting calls from "Rachel at Card Services". I wish the FCC could do something about 'her'.
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Yeah.... that ***** never DID show up for our date. I hope they find her and do mean things to her.....
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09-18-2012, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by DangerMouse
Yeah.... that ***** never DID show up for our date. I hope they find her and do mean things to her.....
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maybe she didn't show up for your date cause she showed up for mine 
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09-19-2012, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by DangerMouse
Yeah.... that ***** never DID show up for our date. I hope they find her and do mean things to her.....
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Yeah! Like, I hope they call her every time she is walking out the door so that she has to run back inside to answer the phone and every time she just steps into the shower or sits down on the commode or is in the middle of changing a messy diaper or......
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10-02-2012, 12:01 PM
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probably just my area but-Paint any 3 rooms $99 or paint any house for $700 this only gets them in the door then come the add ons. Prep work, washing, patching, ect, ect.
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10-13-2012, 01:01 AM
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Location: Australia, QLD
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Scam warnings!
If it's too good to be true, then it's definitely a scam. Nothing is too good these days, it's either too good but so expensive, or too good but not true at all.
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10-15-2012, 06:01 PM
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Scam warnings!
The best one is the heavily accented individual who calls and says they are calling about your computer and they know you are getting error messages, then they want you to get into your computer and give them access to your system for them to review your "error messages"...right....I had one nut who kept calling me back all night when I told him I know this is a scam and he argued with me! LOL 
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04-11-2013, 12:10 AM
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man ! i guess this post saved me from getting scammed ! scary stories
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04-16-2013, 01:16 PM
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The funnest way to deal with the phone and door to door scammers is to let them ask how your doing. They asked right?
Well, not to good. You see my son just got arrested for dealing cocaine and heroine in the White House and now he's gonna lose his internship with Obama all over the fact that he was doing it for his lesbian girlfriend that is really dating my grand daughter who just got pregnant when she was gang raped at the blue oyster bar by a bunch of AIDS infected transexuals. Now my wife has left me for my borther who was killed in a skiing accident in Hawaii, seems he fell into a volcano and the rescue services wants me to pay this huge bill for pulling his pieces out of the volcano and I was going to have him shipped home but I got scammed by the funeral home and now theyir holding his ashes and pieces until I can come up with a way to start paying them off. That is why I recently started dealing drugs, but it's getting harder and harder because the cops have bugged my phones and now everytime I call my doctor for a prescription for this nasty infection from my ingrown toenail they raid his office thinking he's my supplier but really it's my daughter's lesbian girlfriends husbands gay partner's dad who is the supplier but I guess I shouldn't tell you that. Recently I found out my mom has the gout and now I have to bathe her twice a day but she weighs 450 lbs, by the way can you help me lift her out of the tub?
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04-16-2013, 01:29 PM
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