CHL Phone Scam?

[CountryGent]

My parents where here this last week and my mother was telling me about a new phone scam in which the method to your info is calling about your CCW/CHL license. A quick google search indicates it is a real thing.

Out of curiosity, has anyone received one of these? I received an endless parade of scam BS calls on various phones, but not one of these.

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[Stomper]

Nope, but my county sheriff is renewing CHL's via "postage only" for this renewal cycle..... wussies.

 

[CountryGent]

I renewed my CHL via the mail last year. Meh, it beat driving to the county seat, waiting in line, doing the renewal, and driving back.

 

[GrayGoose]

Out of curiosity, has anyone received one of these?

Possibly. I get unknown calls often but if I don't recognize the number I don't answer, and if they don't leave a VM then they're most likely a scammer.

 

[Member 5605]

anonymous call rejection, since mid June/July last year my scammers have reduced to near zero.

I'd love to get those scammers, all I get now are automated messages.

 

[Dinglenutz]

Possibly. I get unknown calls often but if I don't recognize the number I don't answer, and if they don't leave a VM then they're most likely a scammer.

That. There is an App called Hiya that helps automate this procedure.

 

[P7M13]

I receive unknown phone calls all the time because of my work. Answer. Never say "hello" or "yes". If there is a pause, it's a robot looking for a keyword like Hello. Maybe 60:40 bot to real call ratio.
There's one that the person on the other end *sounds* real and says, "hello? Can you hear me?" The natural inclination for the answering person is to say yes. I just wait. It clicks off. Then block phone.
I have hundreds of phone numbers on my blocked list.
I *wish* the warranty on my 300K, 27 year old car was just about to expire...

 

[Stomper]

Possibly. I get unknown calls often but if I don't recognize the number I don't answer, and if they don't leave a VM then they're most likely a scammer.

I do the same, if you're not in my contacts then I let it go to VM.


Just like Joe Walsh sang in a song, "just leave a message maybe I'll call."


Then block that number forever.

 

[Capn Jack]

I love the gal with, "The voice of DOOM", that tells me about all of the mysterious charges on my Amazon account.

Or, the ESL that tells me the Windows program on my computer is about to expire. When I ask him which of my five computers he's talking about, he hangs up.

 

[Idaho44]

Got a call just moments ago from a 'legitimate' local business (hospital) with the correct phone number and Officer *** was advising me my social security number was used for fraudulence activity! The only solution is to WAIT for the message to be recorded on your answering machine or let it go to voice mail! If you don't have a machine or voice mail, GET IT! The scammers are using very sophisticated techniques and YOU are the target! Blocking numbers is a constant activity.
NOTE: I found it interesting the "phone number" was for 'mental health services'!

 

[Capn Jack]

Not a scam. My wife was playing Cribbage on MS Games with a live person and found out it was someone, "Behind Bars" back east some where.
Of course he was innocent.

 

[cigars]

I do the same, if you're not in my contacts then I let it go to VM.


Just like Joe Walsh sang in a song, "just leave a message maybe I'll call."


Then block that number forever.

Believe it or not Cigars isn't at home....

 

[Stomper]

I love the gal with, "The voice of DOOM", that tells me about all of the mysterious charges on my Amazon account.

Or, the ESL that tells me the Windows program on my computer is about to expire. When I ask him which of my five computers he's talking about, he hangs up.

...with a slight India—Cambridge accent, based in New Delhi India.


I got one from the "Social Security Department" that I needed to stop working immediately until I called them.


Yeah, let me get right on that Rikki-Tikki-Tavi....

 

[Caveman Jim]

Caveman says "HUH". He CHS...

 

[TNThomas]

I have not had this happen. I have an odd benefit of keeping an old out of state phone number. I live in WA, but kept my Idaho cell phone number. I only talk to 5 people in Idaho, and if I get a call from an unidentified 208 number, I don't even pick up, guaranteed to be a scammer. I just did the math, and the odds of getting somebody of Indian descent (Indian accent) from Idaho, are at best 1 in 2,000. So insanely unlikely they are actually legit. If you can choose your cell number, using Idaho, Alaska, Montana, or even better, Wyoming, would all be good states to quickly identify the Indian scammers.

 

[TTSX]

It always comes down to if there's something important .gov wants to tell you, you will get it in writing. That and if I did talk to a person, I'd be setting up an appointment with them right then and there since I'm within walking distance from the sheriff's office. No need to continue the call sir, see you in 10

 

[Provincial]

Scammers fake the caller ID numbers. I've received scam calls that used the number of the local nursing home. The phone companies are complicit by using a system that allows this to happen.

In my estimation, the phone companies should have to pay us subscribers for the scam calls we receive. We should have a *XX number to call after a scam call that flags it and credit us with a dollar! These payments could not be expensed for taxes and could not be used to justify rate increases for consumers. If they try to put a charge on the victim (real owner )of a faked caller ID, they would get charged with criminal fraud and punitive damages because they are the one responsible for the fake.

The phone companies make money on delivering these scams. They charge both ends of the call. They know what is happening, and they do nothing to stop it. Neither do the "regulatory" agencies.

End rant.

 

[Mark W.]

None of the F ers will extend the warranty on my 48 Willys.

 

[TNThomas]

Hahaha! Awesome. For a year this was my only car, I had a giggle when they wanted extend my 1999 Ford Escort warrenty....