Psycho Bunny said:
Rapier108 said:
txags92 said:
fullback44 said:
Rapier108 said:
Probably fake, but I'd bet the note demands payment in Bitcoin since that is what most scammers want nowadays.
Some scammer tried to get me one time and they said I had to pay with bit coin - I laughed at them and hung up but it sounded real enough that I listened to them for 15 minutes or so - they said I had a warrant and needed to pay $3000 to have the warrant removed - it was some made up BS about taxes or something -don't remember all the details
My brother almost got fooled by a scam involving a very realistic ai audio clip of his son's voice calling him from the jail in his college town. Was a very sophisticated setup with people playing the part of the prosecutor and the clerk at the jail on separate calls claiming his son was driving drunk and hit a pregnant woman. Wasn't until they wanted him to bail him out in bitcoin that it triggered him to call his son's cell hone and he answered from his desk at work.
That is why one should never answer calls from an unknown number. It can be a scammer just trying to get a voice recording so they can then fake it and try to scam a family member.
I've had scammers call me, using a number I did recognized, dude was trying to cosplay as a police officer, telling me if I didn't send 1500 dollars I would be arrested and spend the next 5 years in prison. That was about 10 minutes of entertainment. This is why my wife and I have a code word, in the invent her or I get a phone call and its the "other person voice" demanding money or information. Scammers have gotten very sophisticated with their scams.
This one was not somebody random calling initially from an unknown #. It was a call IDed as coming from the jail in his son's college town and an AI version of his son's voice, sniffing from crying and claiming he was using his one call from the jail. It answered some basic questions and interrupted him if he tried to get too much detail by telling him the call was time limited. He gave a phone number that was supposedly for the prosecutor or cop in charge of his case (can't remember which). My brother called that and a guy claiming to be the cop reinforced all the same details and gave him a number for the "clerk at the jail" to arrange to get him bailed out. The clerk gave him the same info, gave him a relatively modest bail amount, and then made up some story about their normal payment system being down and needing to send bitcoin. Up until that point, my brother was just in shock that his son had driven drunk (not like him) and that he might have hurt a pregnant lady. That request for bitcoin was when my brother finally woke up from the shock, got suspicious, and called his son's cell.
Without the first call with his son's voice, it would have been easily IDed and blown off as a scam. But with that call it made the rest of the scam much more believable, right up until they asked for payment with bitcoin.