it will be a call from someone perpetrating the recent scam IRS "warning" call widely reported in the media. If the number is left on your voice mail, you might wish to call back and string them along for a while and then tell them that you know they are a scam outfit and you are just purposely wasting their time. I did just that and then called back to give them some more abuse, but they apparently have a way to block second calls from someone who is onto them.
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this is confusing!
If, the IRS contacts you, it will usually be by mail. If by phone, ask for an appointment to meet face to face at their office.
" I you get a call from thin"??
LOL! Yeah, waste your time and money to call scammers that couldn't care less if you are "on to them" or not! Plenty of other suckers out there. I don't know what it's about, but if it's offering to give them something, the gimmethats will be clamoring for them to call them on their obama phones, or the ones the government "loaned" them! LOL!
Here is what the IRS says about this scam:
I you get a call from thin number,1-509-315-2890,
Should either I or you get such a call, remember:
"1" is a thin number but "0", though its value is zero, is rotund. "5" is all over the place. Not to be trusted.
When numbers show up representing themselves as thin, it is a scam.
Hang up.
budsfarm posted:I you get a call from thin number,1-509-315-2890,
Should either I or you get such a call, remember:
"1" is a thin number but "0", though its value is zero, is rotund. "5" is all over the place. Not to be trusted.
When numbers show up representing themselves as thin, it is a scam.
Hang up.
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I also left the "f" out of "If." Too bad you did not hit on that one too, but you at least beat Best to my other typo, thus ruining her day, one would suppose, since she finds such cheap delight in calling attention to such minor errors.
" I you get a call from thin"??
What typo did I miss? " I you" and then "thin". Nope professor prig, I saw it and posted it. LOL!! Poor old sod beternnun.
Contendahh posted:budsfarm posted:I you get a call from thin number,1-509-315-2890,
Should either I or you get such a call, remember:
"1" is a thin number but "0", though its value is zero, is rotund. "5" is all over the place. Not to be trusted.
When numbers show up representing themselves as thin, it is a scam.
Hang up.
___
I also left the "f" out of "If." Too bad you did not hit on that one too, but you at least beat Best to my other typo, thus ruining her day, one would suppose, since she finds such cheap delight in calling attention to such minor errors.
Proofreading not being your forte, let me help you.
Second line of my rejoinder "Should either I or you get such a call, remember:"
Not too bad for me. Instead, 2 bads for you.
"Your" slipping.
budsfarm posted:Contendahh posted:budsfarm posted:I you get a call from thin number,1-509-315-2890,
Should either I or you get such a call, remember:
"1" is a thin number but "0", though its value is zero, is rotund. "5" is all over the place. Not to be trusted.
When numbers show up representing themselves as thin, it is a scam.
Hang up.
___
I also left the "f" out of "If." Too bad you did not hit on that one too, but you at least beat Best to my other typo, thus ruining her day, one would suppose, since she finds such cheap delight in calling attention to such minor errors.
Proofreading not being your forte, let me help you.
Second line of my rejoinder "Should either I or you get such a call, remember:"
Not too bad for me. Instead, 2 bads for you.
"Your" slipping.
He loves to dish it out, but hates to take it!
budsfarm posted:Contendahh posted:budsfarm posted:I you get a call from thin number,1-509-315-2890,
Should either I or you get such a call, remember:
"1" is a thin number but "0", though its value is zero, is rotund. "5" is all over the place. Not to be trusted.
When numbers show up representing themselves as thin, it is a scam.
Hang up.
___
I also left the "f" out of "If." Too bad you did not hit on that one too, but you at least beat Best to my other typo, thus ruining her day, one would suppose, since she finds such cheap delight in calling attention to such minor errors.
Proofreading not being your forte, let me help you.
Second line of my rejoinder "Should either I or you get such a call, remember:"
Not too bad for me. Instead, 2 bads for you.
"Your" slipping.
Sometimes "their" is "sum" funny stuff on "hear".
Prolly two manny martoonies n de closeit
I received the call on my cell number and realizing it was a scam called it back just to advise them I've forwarded their number to the Police to which they responded with "go ahead and do it *** ... and profanity. Something that a legitimate IRS person wouldn't say. It really makes you wish that someone who does this could be actually caught and prosecuted for you know they do take advantage of many innocent folks.
Others would say that someone dumb enough to be taken in by it deserves to lose their money but I feel differently. No one deserves to be taken by these thieves. I would say I wonder how they would feel if someone took advantage of their mother or father but then people like this are so morally corrupt that they most likely don't have a loving relationship with their family members.
As I hang up, delete and block their number - having done all I can do - I take vicarious satisfaction wishing I could launch a HARM missile down the path of their cell phone transmission.
Just a matter of time and North Korean tech.