Big Bear Valley Phone SCAM CALLS
Big Bear Computer
Club
October 2014, Big Bear Lake Resident __ We cannot be too cautious
about answering our cell phones, as well as (land-lines) home phones. Many cell
phone owners aren’t answering them, if the in-coming phone number isn’t familiar.
Strange unfamiliar calls are going to voice-mail and there determined if it is
a wanted call. Instead, the tele-marketing phone calls are rampant, as well as
scam calls asking for private information.
It seems that a few people in Lucerne Valley have recently received phone calls from an automated service company. The caller said that their debit card had been 'locked'. The caller asked the cell phone owner to enter their personal information, in order to 'unlock' the card. .
This is a total scam that is not new. Folks should simply
hang up. If people have any questions regarding debit or credit cards, they
should call their bank directly.
2.
I personally received two phone calls this week claiming to be from Microsoft.
The caller said that she wanted to access my computer because they could see a
problem. The person had a heavy accent that I could hardly understand
her. When I tell the scam callers that I don't have a computer, they immediately
hang up on me.
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Second Big Bear Lake Resident reports:
I
received several calls that were recorded
on my answering machine, when I decided to take one of those from the same number. The caller
explained as he did on the recordings, that the warranty on my car was about to
expire and that it should be renewed as soon as possible. He continued that the
matter could be corrected by giving him my credit
card information and vehicle number on my car.
At that point, I asked ‘Okay, tell me
more, how to go about getting a new warranty. See, I knew that my car had been
paid off and I no longer had a warranty on it. Then, he asked ‘What kind of car
do you own?’ I quickly responded, that he had called me and should have that
information already. Would you believe that the conversation was abruptly
ended, when he hung up?! Neither did I receive those calls again!