I received this type of call several times in the last couple of weeks. They are telling me that I've won several hundred thousand dollars in some sort of sweepstakes, but I have to send them $160.00 to cover shipping and handeling. This person was very, very hard to understand. Probably was calling from India, although area code 282 is Illinois.
Like I said I've received several of these types of calls, so I thought I'd have some fun with them. First of all the caller (which was very hard to understand) told me I would have to get the money to New York by 5:00 pm today. I asked him if he knew where I lived. He read off my address to me. I then asked him what state I lived in and he replied MT. I asked him what MT stood for and he replied Michagan. (count one for me!!)
He said that I could use Western Union to get the money to his office. I then told him that my wife had the horse in town and it would be several hours before she would be home, (two for me) and I would have to feed the horse and let it rest before I could make the trip back to town. (three for me) The horse was really old and didn't know if it was upto doing two trips to town and back on the same day. (make that 4 for me)
He finally extended the time until 5:00 pm tomorrow if that would help me. I assured him that that would probably work. He gave me a "code #" and said if anyone called back that they would have to give me that # and if they didn't to hang up on them. The code number he gave me was 19540.
He called me back about an hour later to make sure that I hadn't talked to anyone else, and repeated the code # and made sure I hadn't talked to anyone else that might have called me about the same winnings. I told him that my wife hadn't gotten back with the horse yet!!!! (five for me!!!)
It was sure fun to see how long I could keep him on the phone. I got him to stay on the line about 19 minutes. What a riot!!!
I received this type of call several times in the last couple of weeks. They are telling me that I've won several hundred thousand dollars in some sort of sweepstakes, but I have to send them $160.00 to cover shipping and handeling. This person was very, very hard to understand. Probably was calling from India, although area code 282 is Illinois.
Like I said I've received several of these types of calls, so I thought I'd have some fun with them. First of all the caller (which was very hard to understand) told me I would have to get the money to New York by 5:00 pm today. I asked him if he knew where I lived. He read off my address to me. I then asked him what state I lived in and he replied MT. I asked him what MT stood for and he replied Michagan. (count one for me!!)
He said that I could use Western Union to get the money to his office. I then told him that my wife had the horse in town and it would be several hours before she would be home, (two for me) and I would have to feed the horse and let it rest before I could make the trip back to town. (three for me) The horse was really old and didn't know if it was upto doing two trips to town and back on the same day. (make that 4 for me)
He finally extended the time until 5:00 pm tomorrow if that would help me. I assured him that that would probably work. He gave me a "code #" and said if anyone called back that they would have to give me that # and if they didn't to hang up on them. The code number he gave me was 19540.
He called me back about an hour later to make sure that I hadn't talked to anyone else, and repeated the code # and made sure I hadn't talked to anyone else that might have called me about the same winnings. I told him that my wife hadn't gotten back with the horse yet!!!! (five for me!!!)
It was sure fun to see how long I could keep him on the phone. I got him to stay on the line about 19 minutes. What a riot!!!
Caller type: Scammer
Caller: ID 19540
Company: sweepstakes award company
Number: 282-726-2524
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