I got a call from this number and it said "Quicken Loans" on Caller ID. However... I have never done business with Quicken, although I last used Turbo Tax 6 years ago and they only email Turbo Tax ads and never emailed about Quicken (and Intuit/Quicken has never ever robo-dialed me). I answered the phone anyway. Some dude with a thick Indian accent and poor English says he is Quicken Loans calling about my account. Red flags and alarms immediately go off in my head - Foreign caller? (check!) Talking nonsense shyt about an account that I do not have and a service that I do not use? (check!) The scammer immediately becomes evasive when I ask for details about which account, since I purposely falsely told him I had several accounts with Quicken? (check!) Since he disturbed me on my nice sunny Friday, I decided to toy with him for another 15 minutes before he shouted profanities at me and I laughed and told him rude stuff about his mother. After he hung up, I called Quicken Loans and they said this 800-508-0944 is NOT a number used by Quicken Loans!!!!!!!!!!!! Moral of my story: If you are a Quicken Loans customer, this may be a valid call, or your call could still be this same Indian scammer spoofing the fake Caller ID number. If you are not a Quicken Loans customer and wondered why you got a call, welp, that is why they call it "phishing" - scammers robo-dial thousands of numbers and they hope to phish for gullible targets. And always remember this: scammers can spoof a fake Caller ID name and number faster than you can change your underwear. I am still amazed at the number of people who claim that a scam call is valid just because the Caller ID display looks legitimate, or if the scammer says your name. Marketing databases with millions of phone numbers associated with names and addresses are easily available for both legitimate businesses and scammers to use. Just because a caller knows your name, address, or names of relatives means absolutely nothing since scammers easily obtain that information to make the call sound legit.

March 19, 2021

Mortgage company

July 3, 2019

Quicken Loans

April 22, 2019