The local news is always warning about the latest scam, and tells us to contact the authorities if the scammers contact you.
Ever do that? They can’t get you off the phone fast enough. My mom got called with the old scam that I’d been in a car accident, and they were holding me hostage until my mom sent them money for the repairs. She called me, and I told her I was fine, laying in bed.
The scammers had given my mom a phone number to call them when she had the money, so I figured that gave the cops a chance to close on on them. So I called the cops, but since I was in one county, they said I had to call my mom’s county, since they called her. So I called that county, and they claimed the crime was in my country, since I was the victim somehow.
Bottom line, both police department s were far more interested in making it the other guys problem, and it was perfectly clear that neither one was interested in following up, even though I had an actual lead they could follow.
In the past, it used to feel like if someone who called you was a scammer that you could maybe do something about it.
These days there seem to be no consequences for robocalls, scam calls, spam emails, scam ads, privacy invasion, even successful hacks.
The local news is always warning about the latest scam, and tells us to contact the authorities if the scammers contact you.
Ever do that? They can’t get you off the phone fast enough. My mom got called with the old scam that I’d been in a car accident, and they were holding me hostage until my mom sent them money for the repairs. She called me, and I told her I was fine, laying in bed.
The scammers had given my mom a phone number to call them when she had the money, so I figured that gave the cops a chance to close on on them. So I called the cops, but since I was in one county, they said I had to call my mom’s county, since they called her. So I called that county, and they claimed the crime was in my country, since I was the victim somehow.
Bottom line, both police department s were far more interested in making it the other guys problem, and it was perfectly clear that neither one was interested in following up, even though I had an actual lead they could follow.
ACAB