Attention California DUers and all
We are legacy owners of Marriott timeshare in Newport Beach, CA. Someone called a couple of days ago and said Real Estate taxes were past due. Husband was napping when his phone rang. When I noticed what was happening he was heading he was getting his CC out of his wallet. He had left his cell phone on an end table so I disconnected call. Later called Orange County and nothing was past due. Once again went over hard and fast rule to never give CC number over the phone. Tax assessment notice came in mail a few days later. Timing is interesting. Also reminded husband government agencies don't call they send letters.
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I immediately report them on SpyDialer online. I file a report on that number there so others can see if it was reported before. Then I IMMEDIATELY block that number on my cell phone.
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU GET A CALL FROM AN INKNOWN NUMBER:
1.- Never speak. Say NOTHING for 3 seconds.
2.- When they say "Hello?" or ask for you by name, you answer: "Who's calling please?"
3. If they give you a name of any kind, you ask: "And what is this regarding?" That's all!
4.- Say "Thank you very much. I'LL CALL YOU BACK ON THE OFFICIAL LINE I HAVE FOR THAT."
That's it. The calls have been less and less since I started following this.
Our Federal law enforcement has been told to stand down. Our foreign intelligence agencies have been redirected. The focus has been redirected from historically criminally inclined Countries all at the behest of Directors such as Patel, Bondi, Gabbard, etc. And then when the Rapist/Felon doesn't get the results he wants, he just replaces them. They are focused on finding election fraud that has been proven to be nonexistent. When criminals that have been tried and convicted, the Rapist/Felon Pardons them for what is suspected as monetary reasons.
Then we have Musk and his DOGE criminal enterprise accessing and copying our most confidential information for what purposes?
Bill Pulte is another accessing information from financial loan applications to find "criminal activity".
Everything can be directly traced back to the President of the United States whom has been given immunity by our criminally inclined Supreme Court.
My phone is on semi-permanent do not disturb except to people I know. I don't answer the door anymore because anybody that knows me, knows to call first including neighbors. I have a sign warning solicitors away and I have a history of threatening particularly aggressive sales people off my property.
Here's the kicker, I was a Realtor for many years so I had to make cold calls and knock on doors. But I knew most people were not interested in what I had to say but I didn't blame them and I was very apologetic for disturbing their tranquility.
When trying to sell me something or get information from me, I understand and tolerate them not taking no for an answer, once. Just, once. After that.....
My wife on the otherhand is a lamb to the wolves. Most recently via phone to somebody that gave her enough personal information about her credit that she believed they were a credit fraud dept. investigating suspicious activity. All while I was 30 minutes into driving us to a 1 week out of town getaway. From the conversation that my mostly deaf ears could hear I cautioned her profusely not to confirm or deny any information nor say the word "yes" to anything. Once this 40 minute conversation in which she confirmed and denied information, was done, oh, and the word yes was uttered a few times she agreed to them calling her back once they stated they would pursue this investigation further.
At this point, I now had whiplash from the vigorous shaking of my head back and forth. After the call I spoke with her calmly and asked her to make some quick calls to verify the veracity of the previous caller which confirmed it was all a con. She spent the next 3 days of our getaway ignoring their "follow-up" calls.
She based her confidence in the original call on the fact her phone showed a major credit card phone I.D. on the initial contact.
BTW, this happened last month.
All sitting ducks from scammers. Always tell them to give you their phone number for a call back and hang up. Then look up the OFFICIAL contact info. Such a simple verify but many folks are defenseless to outside influences. Look at how many poors voted for the fat orange imbecile. Look at how "rich" he made all of them. 