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Ya'll won't have me to kick around anymore, no-sir-ree. I've hit it big, according to Barrister Ahhmat. It seems a heretofore unknown relative has expired in an auto accident, along with his 'entire family' (except me, apparently), in Togo, and fortuitously left behind US$9.5 million. You'd think I'd have heard of a relative with that kind of cabbage, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm off to send aforementioned Barrister my identification and banking information, and I'll be set. Au revoir.

That's categorically better than the calls I have been getting saying "you'd better answer this message if you want the hellish legal actions we have already taken against you to stop". I have a feeling these are calls from the people who bought the IOUs pertaining to the person who hijacked my identity a few years ago; I will, I guess, have to contact the credit rating people to see if hijacker is at it again. In their previous scams they never used my name; they used a male name they concocted by scrambling various parts of my name, including a middle name only used on govt or older employment docs; these days I only use the initial on those.

The "hellish legal action" people are going to have to prove this guy had a very convincing sex change transition if they're going to prove he's me.

ghostjmf wrote:That's categorically better than the calls I have been getting saying "you'd better answer this message if you want the hellish legal actions we have already taken against you to stop". I have a feeling these are calls from the people who bought the IOUs pertaining to the person who hijacked my identity a few years ago; I will, I guess, have to contact the credit rating people to see if hijacker is at it again. In their previous scams they never used my name; they used a male name they concocted by scrambling various parts of my name, including a middle name only used on govt or older employment docs; these days I only use the initial on those.

The "hellish legal action" people are going to have to prove this guy had a very convincing sex change transition if they're going to prove he's me.

Please submit a complaint to the CFPB: http://www.consumerfinance.gov/

I had some collection bureau threatening me with arrest at my workplace. I complained to them and they stopped that.

tlynn78 wrote:Ya'll won't have me to kick around anymore, no-sir-ree. I've hit it big, according to Barrister Ahhmat. It seems a heretofore unknown relative has expired in an auto accident, along with his 'entire family' (except me, apparently), in Togo, and fortuitously left behind US$9.5 million. You'd think I'd have heard of a relative with that kind of cabbage, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm off to send aforementioned Barrister my identification and banking information, and I'll be set. Au revoir.

Wow! That's enough to buy (or at least rent) a small government. Choose wisely! --Bob

BJ:

Thanks for the website. I will check it out. When this 1st happenned I had the PO stop delivering anything to my house that wasn't addressed to my name.

When these callers get me live, they ask for one of many goofy names & I say "no-one here by that name" & hang up. Its the recorded messages, when they don't get me live, that are really scary.

So far they only have my landline, not my cell. Both of which are in my name, not some made-up farce.

ghostjmf wrote:That's categorically better than the calls I have been getting saying "you'd better answer this message if you want the hellish legal actions we have already taken against you to stop". I have a feeling these are calls from the people who bought the IOUs pertaining to the person who hijacked my identity a few years ago; I will, I guess, have to contact the credit rating people to see if hijacker is at it again. In their previous scams they never used my name; they used a male name they concocted by scrambling various parts of my name, including a middle name only used on govt or older employment docs; these days I only use the initial on those.

The "hellish legal action" people are going to have to prove this guy had a very convincing sex change transition if they're going to prove he's me.

It could be that, or it could just be a scam caller.

I've been getting those calls off and on for about a month now, and I've never had my identity stolen nor borrowed any money.

I just ignore those calls.

Bob78164 wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:Ya'll won't have me to kick around anymore, no-sir-ree. I've hit it big, according to Barrister Ahhmat. It seems a heretofore unknown relative has expired in an auto accident, along with his 'entire family' (except me, apparently), in Togo, and fortuitously left behind US$9.5 million. You'd think I'd have heard of a relative with that kind of cabbage, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm off to send aforementioned Barrister my identification and banking information, and I'll be set. Au revoir.

Wow! That's enough to buy (or at least rent) a small government. Choose wisely! --Bob

Indeed!

tlynn78 wrote:Ya'll won't have me to kick around anymore, no-sir-ree. I've hit it big, according to Barrister Ahhmat. It seems a heretofore unknown relative has expired in an auto accident, along with his 'entire family' (except me, apparently), in Togo, and fortuitously left behind US$9.5 million. You'd think I'd have heard of a relative with that kind of cabbage, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm off to send aforementioned Barrister my identification and banking information, and I'll be set. Au revoir.

You're definitely buying dinner in June then. You guys have a Morton's in Billings?

jeemie, thanks for the info.

Maybe I'll hold off on going the rounds w/ the credit cos, one of which was not much fun to deal with. Proving that you're you when someone out there is impersonating at least your soc/sec#. Which now the co wants insecurely e-mailed to them. Because reciting it over the phone isn't good enough. Or you could mail them. That's so fast. Overnight mail, anyone?

Jeemie wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:That's categorically better than the calls I have been getting saying "you'd better answer this message if you want the hellish legal actions we have already taken against you to stop". I have a feeling these are calls from the people who bought the IOUs pertaining to the person who hijacked my identity a few years ago; I will, I guess, have to contact the credit rating people to see if hijacker is at it again. In their previous scams they never used my name; they used a male name they concocted by scrambling various parts of my name, including a middle name only used on govt or older employment docs; these days I only use the initial on those.

The "hellish legal action" people are going to have to prove this guy had a very convincing sex change transition if they're going to prove he's me.

It could be that, or it could just be a scam caller.

I've been getting those calls off and on for about a month now, and I've never had my identity stolen nor borrowed any money.

I just ignore those calls.

I've been getting those calls, too.

IANAL, but legal summons are not and will never been delivered by robocall.

My calls are delivered by live people. With accents & not-so-hot grammer.


The mail to fictitious names sent to my apt (1st scammer time around), before the PO stopped it, could have been real legal mail. Which is how legal stuff is delivered. I didn't open it, as it wasn't addressed to me. Just wrote "not at this address" & dropped it in the box. Probably should have kept it & given it to the police?

I've read & watched enough about the rackets where people buy collection notes, sometimes for actual real debts, with the real people attached, to suspect I'll never get these people off my back.

I got a horrible call a while back, a man with a gloom-and-doom voice asking if I understood that I was at risk for something, I forget what. I said No, which apparently was unexpected, because the voice said "Hm" before proceeding with another gloom-and-doom question, to which I also answered No. I hung up on Question 3 but had occasion to regret it. My dear friend Kathleen, the 86 year old who died recently, got the same call and was still sobbing when her daughter in law went by two hours later, but with her Swiss cheese short term memory, she couldn't remember the specifics of the call, just something about her family being in danger. So they changed her phone number, which she'd had since the 50s. I wish I'd listened all the way through so I could have reported the creeps. The caller ID said Unknown Name, Unknown Numbers.

BackInTex wrote:

tlynn78 wrote:Ya'll won't have me to kick around anymore, no-sir-ree. I've hit it big, according to Barrister Ahhmat. It seems a heretofore unknown relative has expired in an auto accident, along with his 'entire family' (except me, apparently), in Togo, and fortuitously left behind US$9.5 million. You'd think I'd have heard of a relative with that kind of cabbage, but I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. I'm off to send aforementioned Barrister my identification and banking information, and I'll be set. Au revoir.

You're definitely buying dinner in June then. You guys have a Morton's in Billings?

We do not, but there are some other fine dining establishments.

I'm your child.

Beebs52 wrote:I'm your child.

Who are you talking to? Moses?

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littlebeast13 wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:I'm your child.

Who are you talking to? Moses?

lb13

I only go back to Isaiah...impertinent whippersnapper!

Beebs52 wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

Beebs52 wrote:I'm your child.

Who are you talking to? Moses?

lb13

I only go back to Isaiah...impertinent whippersnapper!

LOL - Careful, Beastie, or you'll be out of the will.