Yet another scam

**momcat** · 08-11-2014, 08:55 PM

Hi PT friends -
We all know that scams are running rampant these days so I'm giving all of you a heads up and I hope a laugh with this one.

I got a phone call this afternoon, the caller had a very heavy foreign accent. He told me he was from the federal government and said I was selected to receive a $9,000 federal grant because I pay my bills on time and I don't have a criminal record. That's not something the feds would do so I terminated the call right there. A little while later I went to the call list on my cell phone, found the phone number and tried to call back just for grins. A message came on saying this number doesn't accept incoming calls. That may be so but this didn't feel right at all.

Even though Mike and I laughed over it, my fear is for those who will fall for it.

**Karen** · 08-11-2014, 09:15 PM

Boy, you'd sure have to be gullible for that! Hopefully no one will fall for it!

**Grace** · 08-11-2014, 10:42 PM

We have a Panasonic phone that we can program to block up to 250 phone numbers. It has been a God-send. Whenever one of those calls come through, I just program it to be blocked - because you know they won't take one "no" for an answer. We can also block all calls from "private", "out of area", or "unavailable".

When one of those numbers call, we hear one ring - and then nothing. The calling party just gets disconnected.