Scammer frauds

[Steve67]

So last night my wife who as onset dementia got scammed by some Scammer basstardoo. Talk her out of her ss# and also one of bank accounts # Which I closed and filed fraud alert with the three credit bureau’s and put a freeze on credit . And explained the situation with our bank. Any other advice from the orange crew

 

[RCW]

Oh geez Steve, so sorry to hear that....

I honestly have no recommendations, but sincere hopes it all works out okay.

Afterthought, you should look at one of those services that does the credit check services on your behalf.

My only concern is that some of those are also a scam....can't trust anyone anymore....

 

[NCL4701]

If you have identity theft protection such as Lifelock or Identity Force, notify them and do what they tell you. If you don’t have something like that, get it. If you become aware of any fraudulent or attempted fraudulent activity file a police report. Police may not do anything about it, but you’ll probably need the report to fight the charges.

Unless you need to borrow money, I’d freeze credit for both of you and leave it that way. You just need a bit of lead time if you ever need to get a loan.

Edit: I do not suggest a simple credit monitoring service. All that does is tell you there’s a problem. Lifelock or IdentityForce will actually fix it for you if you have a problem. About $300/yr but worth 10x that if you have a problem.

 

[Steve67]

Thanks guys l do have credit monitor from Dave Ramsey and thru True Idenity. And my homeowners policy covers up to million for identity theft .Just praying it goes away but know it’s something that will always be in the back of mind

 

[ZTMAN]

I would also :

Contact the Social Security Fraud Hotline at (800) 269-0271. Let them know what happened to make sure they don't file bogus ss claims

Call the Internal Revenue Service at (800) 908-4490 to report what happened and help prevent someone from submitting a tax return in your name.


(above recommendations were from a website I was looking at a week ago)

 

[old and tired]

Get rid of the phone number or email account that the scammers contacted you through... they will try it again and again...

 

[je1279]

Very sorry to hear. I hope everything works out for you guys and the offending party is prosecuted to the full extent of state/federal law.

 

[OrangeKrush]

I’m sorry to hear this Steve, hopefully them B/\$terds get what’s coming to them sooner than later! Wish I could help!

 

[D2Cat]

Contact the folks at Zander Ins. they are the folks Ramsey uses. They will assign an agent to get all the information you have and guide you on what and how to do what is needed.

A couple of years ago someone scammed an account my wife had. She called them and they contacted her and followed through with everything that needed to be done.

 

[skeets]

Problem is they are in some 3rd world country and we cant touch them

 

[Lil Foot]

I'd like to touch them with a 168gr boatail match.

 

[85Hokie]

I'd like to touch them with a 168gr boatail match.

That's gonna be a long shot to make with the .308 - but I will help you hold the rifle steady!

Those @#$@#%%^#$ phone calls are driving me crazy - It is getting so bad that I DO ANSWER and then hit 1 - simply to allow me the 3 seconds of joy when tell the person on the other end where the #$@#@# they can go and what the @#$# they can do when they get there!!

 

[BAP]

Sorry to hear that you are going through all of this. Hard enough for you having to handle the dementia of your wife without someone scamming the both of you.

 

[William1]

Cows out of the barn but... for may dad, I gave him a card filled with bogus numbers and a note to have anyone contact me if help is needed. My dad would tell me from time to time that he got a call and they wanted information, he was glad I 'put it all in one place'. He made mention of some of the callers using foul langugae. I of course, never got follow up calls from any of these so=-called 'agents'.

 

[Steve67]

Thanks again for the replys I have taken all the steps you all have suggested,so now it’s wait and see if any damage happens in the future.. Scammers are the scum of the earth

 

[skeets]

I'd like to touch them with a 168gr boatail match.

Thats what I use to use in my old Winchester National Match, back before I lost it the boating accident

 

[random]

"Call the Internal Revenue Service"

Yep - my daughter ran into that "Tax identity theft". She gets a PIN from the IRS every year now that's required to file. Major pain.


BTW, don't answer those calls. It's like the email spammers, they compile lists when they get ANY response and sell them to other scammers.

 

[Magicman]

I got my call (again) last evening from "Amazon" thanking me for my recent $399 purchase. At least it is down from the previous $999 purchase. If I did not make this purchase I should immediately call..........