Have you ever had a scammer call with info you wrote about on this Forum?

Well, I have been on the forum here for many years. Thus have written quite a lot of stuff [oh my gosh, I need a life!]. Not once has any of the robo calls felt like they were related to anything I had written. And I think I am pretty good when it comes to research/detective work.

Thus, I wouldn't worry. It's all coincidental. Now I need to call back on that student loan I don't have, after I order that back and knee brace I don't need, after I get new window for the house, once I clear up my social security number, only when I lower my interest rate on my credit card, but first must hide because the IRS has a warrant for my arrest.

Microsoft called my husband about some software problem. The person on the phone told hubby to go to the Start menu and type in a command, then asked hubby if this window popped up, yes it did. Ok, type this in the window, ok, this went on for about 10 minutes typing this and that. Guy on the phone said did this window pop up? Hubby said no, ? I won’t repeat what he said to the guy. Guy didn’t find it funny that my husband wasted his time and was outside the entire time with the dog.

I wish there was a live person whenever I get a call regarding my cloud. My cloud? We can own clouds? Rain cloud or fluffy cloud? I heard one can own a star.

Years ago, when it was live people instead of robocalls, I had a client whose daughter was a chatterbox. Mom made a deal with her daughter that when they got unknown calls, she would put her daughter on the line to chat with the caller. The child got $1 a minute to keep the call going. She was really good at stalling, "Oh, just one more thing before I give the phone to my mom" to keep them on the line to waste their time.

The record was 15 minutes and the mom said it was some of the happiest money she spent!

No, but I do think it is dangerous for anyone to use their real name plus say what city and state they are from. When I try to warn people about this, some get mad. So I stopped warning people.

Wow that seems like a lot of sleuthing work to do for someone clueless enough to assume you would still be paying on student loans and fall for their scam!

That call and your post here are totally unrelated. No one saw your post and then decided to scam call you. Those calls are robocalls. Think about it—this site doesn’t have your phone number to give out. I get those same calls all the time and it isn’t because I’ve posted here!

Just as an option..... get a couple of new & fresh gmail addresses to use for forums like AC. With Gmail it’s pretty limitless for doing new accounts. This was it’s not the email you use for biz, banking, online payment stuff.

also if you have concerns on AC giving out info, do contact the administrators. The site does get monitored by them. I’ve found them to be responsive.

My boss will pick up on a live telemarketing person call. The person is usually selling something to help someone make their business grow faster. My boss will tell them "apparently you didn't do your homework before calling me, I've been in business for over 50 years, do you think I really need your help, fuhgeddaboudit."

GrannieAnnie, it's just a robo caller. If the caller had asked for Grannie Annie, then one would know that that caller had been roaming around the Internet. Please note that all our questions/answers can be found floating around the World Wide Web. Otherwise EVERYONE gets those calls, even kids who aren't old enough to even have a student loan but their cellphones scam bombed :P

At work yesterday when I answered the phone, a recording went into a spiel about how my social security number had been compromised... the recording didn't ask for anyone in the company.

Also, there are robo callers that when one answers, the robo will ask if "______ is available" and when I said "yes, one moment", the software heard "yes" and went into its spiel before I could transfer the call to da boss. Here I thought it was a breathing person on the other end of the phone.

Even at home I found less robo calls when I answer using the company name as the robo calls were expecting me to just say "hello". It confused the software :)