The numbers they called from are spoofed, so nothing to report there, but it was probably the most “unique” scamspam call I got last week. The buddhu said he was from Spectrum, and could upgrade my TV service and save me $60/month on my bill. Well hot damn.
At one point, he said “I’m going to send three beeps, and upgrade your equipment.” I think he pressed the # key three times, then said “Did you hear the beeps?” I said yes, and eventually he got around to asking me to send a check for $650 to a post office box in Harrison, NJ. I’m somewhat amazed that anyone would be dumb enough to run a scam like that using a p.o. box, but more so that they’d be dumb enough to think I’m dumb enough to send them a check.
Before the call ended, I told him I was going to send three beeps, and pressed the # key three times. Then the conversation went something like this:
Me (as the Grupy Old Man): “Did you hear the beeps?”
Scammer (somewhat confused): “Yes?”
Me; “Do you know who Kitboga is?”
Scammer (more confused): “Yyyes?”
Me: “Do you know who Pierogi is?”
Scammer: “Yyyes?”
Me: “Okay. Well, those three beeps mean that one of them is now in your phone system, and if you call my number again, your computer will catch on fire.”
That was all for that call. I went to the Postal Inspection Service website and reported it, but I imagine they have bigger fish to fry, and I’m not gonna lose any money to this malarkey.
But somebody (could have been the same buddhu) did call back, from a different spoofed number. The first call shows as a Wireless number in Maine, the next one as being in the 848 [Toms River/Jersey coast] area.