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irisblue

(32,829 posts)
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 04:40 PM Nov 2019

Scam Call Today #1-214-366-6900

And they can go whiz up a tree.
The call was from "Drug Enforcement" --- buying ibuprofen triggers a call?

A male Midwestern sounding recorded voice told me, "this was the last attempt to reach me, your Social Security number was going to be suspended."


Googling the # got me to pages saying this is a scam.

I was born on a Sunday night, more then 19,000 nights ago.











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Scam Call Today #1-214-366-6900 (Original Post) irisblue Nov 2019 OP
I get robo calls from the IRS scammers once a day. Farmer-Rick Nov 2019 #1
The year I bought my house, I got a letter from the IRS irisblue Nov 2019 #2
Yeah, we declared my daughter's social security as income Farmer-Rick Nov 2019 #3
They called me today. Chipper Chat Nov 2019 #4
My 3 IRS callers had Hispanic accents, yet gave me Irish names. CaptYossarian Nov 2019 #5
They're everywhere coolcat_riley Nov 2019 #6

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
1. I get robo calls from the IRS scammers once a day.
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 04:46 PM
Nov 2019

They leave a message on my voice mail. I guess I could block them but I'm curios how long they are going to do this. It's such a waste of their time.

I've been audited. The IRS does not call.

irisblue

(32,829 posts)
2. The year I bought my house, I got a letter from the IRS
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 04:57 PM
Nov 2019

I got dizzy when I saw the envelope. My accountant, b/c it was pre everybody has it on computer forms, had dropped a digit.

I survived.

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
3. Yeah, we declared my daughter's social security as income
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 05:02 PM
Nov 2019

That's the last time we called the IRS hotline or did our taxes ourself.

But we got a refund.

Chipper Chat

(9,635 posts)
4. They called me today.
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 05:30 PM
Nov 2019

Asked me to call them back so I did. The guy said he wanted my date of birth. I said I was calling from Iraq and I dont remember when my birthday. And besides I dont have a ssn. He hung up on me.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. My 3 IRS callers had Hispanic accents, yet gave me Irish names.
Fri Nov 22, 2019, 05:33 PM
Nov 2019

With the last one, I used my landline's 2 receivers as weapons.

Holding the one phone I had answered, I rushed to the 2nd receiver. Then I pressed the On button, put it on speaker, and the shrieking feedback made them disappear for good.

coolcat_riley

(29 posts)
6. They're everywhere
Sat Nov 23, 2019, 08:12 AM
Nov 2019

I've heard these Social security scams maybe since more than 3 years ago. I have just Googled about it and found some reports filed at https://www.whycall.me/210-503-9954.html about similar scams since few months ago. People should be quite familiar with how these scumbags work.

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