Attempted Scam

wsuffa said:
The local CVS folks deny that it's possible. Even the head pharmacist shrugs his shoulders when I complain. And since my health plan requires using their mail order pharma (NOT Caremark, which is the CVS version) after 2-3 fills, I never want it auto-filled. For this one, I specifically told them not to auto fill. And after refusing the pickup, I started getting calls this weekend that it's due for refill. *plonk*, I've put them on my block list.
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Well, they're either lying or incompetent. I went through that with CVS in Michigan, got the same story as they're giving you. But as I said, the CVS people here in VT did it, so it must be possible.

But in any case, it sounds as if you really shouldn't be using CVS at all except for the first fill. Why not ask your doctors to send that first script to CVS with zero refills, then follow up with a separate script to the mail order pharma? Might be easier than arguing with incompetent CVS denizens.
 
azure said:
Well, they're either lying or incompetent. I went through that with CVS in Michigan, got the same story as they're giving you. But as I said, the CVS people here in VT did it, so it must be possible.

But in any case, it sounds as if you really shouldn't be using CVS at all except for the first fill. Why not ask your doctors to send that first script to CVS with zero refills, then follow up with a separate script to the mail order pharma? Might be easier than arguing with incompetent CVS denizens.
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I'll probably go elsewhere.

I'm guessing they're not competent or the KPI targets are set to encourage this.

Having zero refills is not the answer - they have been known to call and get refill auth from the doc without involving me.

I'll find a solution - just venting a bit.
 
Zeldman said:
One time when I got a robo call that started like that, and then the voice said can you hear me Ok? I answered back, I can't hear you, I am having trouble with my headset.....and the caller hung up....

Sometimes when I feel like messing with a spam call, I use my very deep and authoritive sounding voice and answer, "Police Department". Then the person will start talking, and I'll interrupt. "Ma'am/sir you have called the police department, is there someone specific you are wanting to speak with?" So far everytime the caller hangs up.
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They're trying to get a recording of you saying "Yes". . .
 
Zeldman said:
Funny, I don't get any calls when my phone is in the O.F.F. mode....
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Many people are unable to determine how to use the O.N./O.F.F. discriminator function on their phones.
 
kyleb said:
Someone tried to scam my 80 something Father today. He didn't feel quite right about what he was asked to do, so touched base with me first and saved himself a good amount of $$$.

The perp called Dad's cell phone pretending to be my cousin(who lives 2,000 miles from here and we don't hear from often), who was in jail and needed $9k in cash to get out of jail. Either the perp had my cousin's name or social engineered the name from my Dad, then told Dad a story about a wreck (therefore the not-quite-right voice), jail, and $9k in bail/bond.

Obviously, none of it was true, but Dad didn't immediately dismiss it. However, he did call me and talk through it, which put an end to it.

The question I had was how someone got Dad's information and made a connection to my cousin in California, since Dad isn't on social media and my cousin hasn't left a e-trail that leads to my Dad. The other possibility is that the person social engineered a cousin's name from Dad. "Hey Mr. XYZ, it's muuuumble, your nephew, how are you doing?" "Mmmumble? Is this Mike??" "Yeah, it's your nephew Mike and..."
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That same **** happened to my grandma fortunately she called me to ask about it.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
Many people are unable to determine how to use the O.N./O.F.F. discriminator function on their phones.
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This is true.

But I do need/want the calls thing because there are a number of automated systems that will TEXT me when crap breaks at work. The interruption for those is probably okay since we’re likely out of business if one of us doesn’t fix it.

Doesn’t happen often but here’s the funny part... you can’t get anyone under the age of 40 to CALL the people who they need to fix things anymore. They’ll text or use the company chat when the entire company is down/offline before they’ll ever “bother someone with a phone call”.

It’s a very different world than 15 years ago. Man everyone’s phone would ring and the bosses would want any person available to sit on a conference call for hours while the troubleshooting took place.

Nowadays all I will get via text message now when the entire company is off line and nobody is working is “Hey if you aren’t busy, can you call me? X might be down.” Where X is just a tiny subsystem of the larger outage.

Youngsters don’t get the whole “call me if it’s an emergency” thing. Not at all.
 
And a new wrinkle. A few minutes ago my cell phone rang, with my own number showing on the caller I.D. Now I do admit to talking to myself on occasion, but I don't need the phone to do it. So I declined the call. :confused:

Not thirty seconds later my wife's phone rang, with her own number on the caller I.D. Some mass-calling machine is working overtime.

Also, the "neighbor spoofing" ploy is evolving a bit. It used to be that the spoofed numbers were always the first six digits (area code and prefix) of the victim's own number. But realizing that a lot of folks are wise to this ruse now, the crooks are spoofing only the first five numbers, so it's not so obvious.

Fortunately our cell phones have numbers with area codes from a distant state, and there's nobody in that state we care to talk to now anyway. So all those spoofed calls are declined or blocked.
 
Everskyward said:
Late last year I got a string of phone calls from the Denver jail. I never answered, and only knew it was the Denver jail because I did a search on the number. I was getting multiple calls per hour so I blocked the number. My guess is it was someone spoofing the number of the Denver jail. I don't know anyone who would call me from there, not to mention that I hadn't lived in Colorado for almost six months at the time. They never left a message.
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It was Nate!
 
Pilawt said:
Also, the "neighbor spoofing" ploy is evolving a bit. It used to be that the spoofed numbers were always the first six digits (area code and prefix) of the victim's own number. But realizing that a lot of folks are wise to this ruse now, the crooks are spoofing only the first five numbers, so it's not so obvious.
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I got one of those for the first time the other day, too. Usually it's the first six numbers that are the same, but this time it was the first five. I still didn't answer.

I don't answer any phone calls anymore unless it's somebody, or a company, that's in my contact list, and even then, sometimes I don't answer. If it's important, they'll leave a voicemail. If it's a family member or an emergency, they'll probably text me.

I've always hated the phone anyway. My Mom grew up in an age where you always answered the phone. I guess it used to be viewed as impolite if you were home and didn't answer it when it rung. I remember we'd all be sitting down to dinner and the phone would ring. 95% of the time it was some damn telemarketer or charity. On about the third ring, Mom would have to jump up and answer it even though we knew it was a bogus call. Or, she'd be in another room and tell me to go answer the phone.

Once I moved away and in my own place, I pretty much stopped answering the phone altogether, and just let it go to an answering machine. If I never heard another ringing phone again, that would be fine with me.
 
I got a call over the weekend that I hit "reject" after one ring. About 10 seconds later, those dirty, low down SOBs somehow activated a Reminder on my iPhone to call that number. Bat Rastards!
 
Leaving on a little overnight getaway my cell beeps for incoming text, "what's it say" I ask my wife?

"Hi I am Nikky (23) live in your street looking for a sex partner in the neighborhood......"

As my wife starts giving me where'd they get your number crap her cell beeps for incoming text........
 
I think I will start answering my phone with..."Thank you for calling the Bijou Theater. Todays movie is a double feature. It Came From Mars By The Way of Uranus, and The Monster That Ate Muleshoe, Texas. Movie times are 1pm, 4:15 and 7:30."

My mom doesn't call anymore, she just uses text....
 
kyleb said:
Someone tried to scam my 80 something Father today. He didn't feel quite right about what he was asked to do, so touched base with me first and saved himself a good amount of $$$.

The perp called Dad's cell phone pretending to be my cousin(who lives 2,000 miles from here and we don't hear from often), who was in jail and needed $9k in cash to get out of jail. Either the perp had my cousin's name or social engineered the name from my Dad, then told Dad a story about a wreck (therefore the not-quite-right voice), jail, and $9k in bail/bond.

Obviously, none of it was true, but Dad didn't immediately dismiss it. However, he did call me and talk through it, which put an end to it.

The question I had was how someone got Dad's information and made a connection to my cousin in California, since Dad isn't on social media and my cousin hasn't left a e-trail that leads to my Dad. The other possibility is that the person social engineered a cousin's name from Dad. "Hey Mr. XYZ, it's muuuumble, your nephew, how are you doing?" "Mmmumble? Is this Mike??" "Yeah, it's your nephew Mike and..."
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Someone called my brother, who is a retired FBI special agent, and told him that my son (who lives in California) was in jail in North Carolina for transporting a car full of marijuana and needed $2000 to get bailed out. He almost fell for it, but just in case called my daughter-in-law to confirm that my son had gone to work at his construction job that morning. I was surprised that my brother let it go that far.

Bob
 
Pilawt said:
Also, the "neighbor spoofing" ploy is evolving a bit. It used to be that the spoofed numbers were always the first six digits (area code and prefix) of the victim's own number. But realizing that a lot of folks are wise to this ruse now, the crooks are spoofing only the first five numbers, so it's not so obvious.
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In fact, they're preferentially spoofing even other area codes within the same state as your area code. I get far more spams from area codes 313, 248, 734, and 231 (all Michigan) than most other random area codes across the country. Last week I even got a text message from someone claiming to be at my former employer who wanted me to "call the office". Trouble is, he gave me the "office" number, and it was clearly not anywhere on that campus, which uses a Centrex system with a common prefix.

Or maybe that's lucky, since otherwise I might have thought it was legitimate. I suppose there is still a chance it is, since there are a handful of isolated offices with numbers outside the Centrex system. And it does seem strange that he would know I was once affiliated with that particular uni... though he didn't explicitly say that he did, so it could have just been coincidence, and cover to seem more "respectable".
 
I got a really cute scam attempt the other day. Email, but still. Straight from a Black Mirror episode. Made me laugh

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My elderly parents who speak little English got scammed on a much smaller level, but to them it's a lot of money. I was not able to go that weekend, so I sent them to MetroPCS, a cell phone company. One lost their cell and the other wanted to get a new phone. MetroPCS has official company stores and "authorized retailers" who sell their phones but are privately owned. They didn't want to wait at the big stores, so they ignored my advice and went to one of the authorized retailers. They came out of it with 2 crappy $150 phones (with crappy cases and crappy headphones--both of which they didn't request) and a $599.xx charge. And the guy didn't give them any kind of itemized receipt, except the credit card charge slip. I'm thinking the prick pocketed about $200. I have been to this store 4 times since but the little weasel somehow has avoided me. I'm not sure if I want to run into him because I may do something stupid and have to deal with police. And then the FAA. It's just not sitting well with me and I don't want to let it go but I probably should.
 
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The new thing around here is robocalls in Chinese. The only Chinese I know is "nihow" so I have no clue what they are saying.

If you live in a part of the country that has a large Chinese immigrant population, you may have recently received a robocall in Mandarin — or even several of them. The calls seem to be blanketing certain phone exchanges without regard to the national origin of the recipients. Presumably, this is how the New York Police Department ended up on the call list.
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https://www.npr.org/2018/05/10/6091...e-u-s-are-part-of-an-international-phone-scam
 
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