kane

For the last few months I have been getting calls about once a week from an 800 number. They always call early in the morning when I'm asleep and have my phone ringer turned off. They never leave a message and when I call back I get a recording telling me this cell number is no longer in service.

I looked the number up online. It is 1-800-707-4064. All the sites say it is a scammer trying to scare you into paying them.

So I am sitting here working and my phone rings. It is that number. I pick it up and I get a guy with a very heavy Indian accent telling me he is a federal investigator. He sounds like he is calling from a crowded phone room. He tells me that the FBI, Federal Marshals and State Attorney General are about to issue a warrant for my arrest for things like bank fraud, misappropriation of funds and a few other charges. He makes it sound like I am a straight up gangster.

I inform him that I haven't done any of these things and he gets very excited and starts telling me to let him finish, I am in big trouble and he can help me. Finally, I tell him that anyone who understands how the law works would know that if they were about to arrest me they would just do it, not hire a call center in India to pre-warn me about it. I tell him he should be ashamed for scamming people.

As I hang up in a very high pitched voice he yells,"Prepare to be arrested if you don't listen to me now!"

Their scam is that they scare you into thinking you are in trouble with the law then for a "fee" they can help all those problems go away.

It was an entertaining call.