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  When I get a call where they start off immediately (with a thick Indian accent) how much tax liability is dangerous and failure to reply is punishable by law, then ask me to confirm my name... Just say "well, you called me, therefore you know my name and liability, please tell me who I am?" and they just hang up. So rude, was in the mood to have fun.
context: “Hello this is the IRS calling. The Police are on the way to arrest you, please give me your SSN and wire us $10,000 to avoid going to jail” >
  
  No it’s gift cards. The irs demands iTunes gift cards. >
  
  My IRS guy wanted steam gift cards, must be a regional thing >
  
  Really? Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard of the IRS wanting Steamed giftcards. >
  
  Steamed gift cards are more of an Albany currency. >
  
  My brain prompted, "it's a regional dependency." >
  
  The world telephone network is hoplessly outdated. It should not be possible to spoof phone numbers. >
  
  Fixing that would fix so many scam related problems. >
  
  The people being scammed are usually elderly. The phone call could literally be labelled "SCAM", and they would still answer, wondering who it is. >
  
  It is so cruel how they attack the elderly. They called my grandfather saying I was in jail and he needed to bail me out. This man was a genius and self made businessman in his youth but we all lose mental fortitude with age. He was so scared I was in jail and was only stopped when his son came and said I'm fine and to call me. I was in class so I didn't answer for a while so despite my mom's assurances I was fine he wouldn't stop panicking till he heard my voice. They are cruel and attack the emotions of the vulnerable. >
  
  They called my grandma years ago (local scam not in the US) and she was like, what did he do, and they guy said attempted robbery and she was like, 'ok leave him there, he needs to learn a lesson' >
  
  They told my grandma I was arrested with a trunk full of drugs and needed bail that night. I hope that guy gets anal warts. >
  
  The worst part is when you call these assholes out their reaction is just “fuck you, you’re and American you’re rich, you don’t need your money and you deserve it anyways.” >
  
  Ugh, this shit is the worst. I got called by someone claiming to be "from Internal Revenue Service" and was bored so I let the call go to a person. The first thing I say is 'Just to confirm, you are claiming to be a representative of the Internal Revenue Service' and I am just met with a curt "Fuck You" and the call ending. Like it's my fault they are shitty >
  
  I got one who was going to “remove my credit card debt.” I took him for a ride as I went to “search for my wallet” and get it out of my other pair of pants (totally, for real), and revealed that I “only” had $4,000 in credit card debt (not sure what number is normal to these folks), and he eventually figured out that I was yanking his chain. Dude kept going “fuck you, sir! Fuck you, sir! Hang up, sir! Fuck you, sir!” As I laughed hysterically going, “awwww, does baby hate it when he gets cawwed on his widdle scams? Is baby sad he couldn’t steal my cweddit cawd? Poor baby, oooo!”
  My other favorite is to just say “your parents lie about you when friends ask how you’re doing. That’s how disgusted they are with you.” Buddy of mine is Hindi and has assured me that that cuts pretty deep in Indian culture. >
  
  I had one threaten to rape me at my home address. I pretended to be a homosexual who would be thrilled by such an encounter. Not that there's anything wrong with being a homosexual. >
  
  Unfortunately it also happens at businesses.
  I work for a state college IT and we did a fake scam phishing email to the whole college, after everyone completed mandatory training on phishing. We do this every year. The email we send out is as obviously scammy as possible, including spelling errors and not being related to anything about the college itself.
  We still had over 100 faculty/staff members open the email, follow the fake scam link, and put in their credit card information on the page that popped up.
  It's a big problem and an even bigger liability. Wish we could just outright fire everyone who fell for that scam, because those folks are those who follow links that get their entire computer randomware'd. We have a room in the college with all the hard drives we have had to pull because they were locked down with ransomware. >
  
  100 COLLEGE faculty and staff fell for it!? Damn >
  
  Yea that isn't good sign for our education system that professors and the like are that gullible >
  
  From my experience they think they are so much more brilliant than everyone else that it’s inconceivable they could get scammed. >
  
  I don’t understand how anyone thinks an email asking for them to go type credit card information in somewhere is legit. Would you give that to someone who knocked on the door or stopped you on the sidewalk because they say they are the government or some shit? No. Then why are you doing it for an email?
  It's inconceivable. Especially the farther along in time we get and how people in their 40s and 50s now have been using computers their entire lives. This isn't like 2002 where most people over like age 40 had extremely poor tech literacy because they didn't use it growing up. 
  Then again I'm always blown away that someone in their 30s or 40s now doesn't know how to copy and paste text. It's like not knowing how to use a telephone in 1980. >
  
  It’s amazing. The ex girlfriend of my friend bill who had recently passed away sent $10k in gift cards to India. She was like 65 and of sound mind. She told me about it a few days later. I was like, Kate you know that I work in fraud and AML! Why didn’t you call me!