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I got a call from this number and it said "AT&T" on Caller ID. However... I have never done business with AT&T, either for wireless, land line, or Directv. I answered the phone anyway. Some dude with a thick Indian accent and poor English says he is "ayy-tee-tee mobile" and told me that I was behind on payments. Red flags and alarms immediately go off in my head - Foreign caller? (check!) Talking nonsense shyt about an account that I have never ever had? (check!) Thus a likely phishing scam? (check!) The scammer immediately becomes evasive when I ask for details about what payments and how much I am delinquent? (check!) He obviously contrives a fake amount and says something like "$487.12" Then he asked for my Visa card number *and* for my (non-existent) AT&T online account login information. I purposely gave him a fake Visa number and it took him 30 seconds to reply back that the card number was invalid, probably only after trying to immediately charge an amount to my card. (checkmate!) If someone calls you about a delinquent account, they should already have all your account information displayed on their screen. And no one ever should ask you for your online login credentials (or SSN)! Since he disturbed me on my nice Saturday morning, 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. Moral of my story: If you are an AT&T 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 AT&T 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.

Say they’re calling about your bill.

Payment reminder

Claims att

Allow

Payment reminder

Pay 11/12

Happy to receive

scumbag india goat herder stealing your money

AT&T Account reminder call

Reminder Call

AT&T

Maybe this is a valid call if you are an AT&T customer, but scammers can easily spoof Caller ID numbers to pretend to be anyone these days. I have never been an AT&T customer, not for phone or DirecTV, and these scammers have started calling me numerous times this week saying that they are AT&T and I owe them money. And I have had my phone number for 25+ years so it is not like some previous user of my phone number was an AT&T customer. Some Indian dude in a very noisy boiler room says my payment is late for $347.95 (lol!) and immediately asks for my credit card number. Hmm, I wonder if I told the scammer that my phone is Verizon and not AT&T, would he quickly switch and say, "Oh, I am not AT&T, I am with Verizon and you owe us money"? lol When I google this number, it looks like 800-947-5096 is tagged as a scam more than twice as often as those saying the call is valid. And this is not a call from Russia credit services as previously posted by the "Pros n Cons" user who is likely the Indian scammer himself who posted a fake comment to redirect the blame of phone scams to Russia, when the foreign accents of most phone scams are very obviously Indian and not Russian, with some Philippines scammers sometimes. If you watch enough news or movies with Russians and Indians talking, you know that their accents differ considerably. In fact, I have never heard a single Russian-accent phone scammer. Russia and China government and individual thieves aim for much bigger fish by hacking into business and government websites and email phishing, and the Indians also email you viruses. There are various RoboKiller comments saying that a call is legit that look like obvious disinformation campaigns posted by the scammers themselves. So just like there are fake customer reviews on Amazon and fake movie reviews on IMDb, you also have to watch out for fake RoboKiller comments saying that a call is valid lol!

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AT&T

Wanted To Confirm Phone Number To Proceed With Call

My Cell Phone company

It’s strange because according to the Internet a lot of people get calls from this number. The number is listed on my AT&T app but is not a number that I call for help with my account.

ATT

This is a fake credit services scam call by criminals phoning from Russia, trying to steal your credit card number, Social Security number, and personal information. There are hundreds of these Russian scams where they offer to lower the interest rates on a fake student loan that you do not have, consolidate all your debts at "0% interest", or give you an unsecured $100,000 line of credit. This call begins with a pre-recorded robotic speaker who pretends to be a credit and loan service. The robotic English message is generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of this Russian scam. If you respond to the call, then you get transferred to the West Russian scammer who tells you that because of your good credit history, he can offer you lower interest rates... he just needs your credit card number and SSN "for verification purposes". More than 95% of all North America phone scams originate from crowded phone rooms in Russia that run numerous fraud, extortion, and money laundering scams every day such as pretending to be a fake pharmacy, posing as fake Social Security or IRS officers collecting on "unpaid back taxes" or fake bill collectors threatening you for fake unpaid debts, pretending to offer fake health insurance, car warranty, and debt, student loan forgiveness, credit card consolidation services, posing as Amazon to falsely say that an unauthorized purchase was made to your account or that your Prime membership was auto-debited from your credit card or bank account, posing as Microsoft or HP to say that your software needs renewal or they detected a problem with your computer, pretending to be DHL, UPS, FedEx or a bank, falsely stating that they installed ransomware virus on your computer and you need to pay them money, etc, and the scammers try to steal your credit card, bank account and routing number, or Social Security number and personal information. Some Russian scammers try to gain your trust by looking up the name associated with your phone number and asking for you by name when they call. Many Russian scammers now phone you with an initial pre-recorded robotic person speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of their Russia phone room, but then you speak to the West Russian scammer when you take the bait and respond to the pre-recorded message. Russian scammers often either use disposable VoIP phone numbers or they spoof fake Caller ID phone numbers. Anyone can use telecom software or a third-party service to phone using fake names and phone numbers that show up on Caller ID. Russian scammers often spoof fake toll-free Caller ID numbers. Russian scammers do not care about the U.S. National Do-Not-Call Registry and asking scammers to stop calling has no effect. Never give an unknown caller your credit card number or Social Security number. Companies who already have your information may ask for the last four digits of your Social Security number for verification. Some Russian scammers ask for your bank account and routing number or ask you to wire transfer them a payment, giving a fake explanation that they cannot accept a credit card or personal check. This is an instant scammer alert because scammers can withdraw money if they know your bank account and routing number (e.g. counterfeit cashed checks) and illegal wire transfers are far less traceable than unauthorized credit card charges. Russian scammers may threaten to have you arrested, but the IRS, Social Security Administration, and debt collectors cannot threaten to arrest or sue you on the phone; they are required to send you paper notices by registered mail. If the scam sounds very authentic, ask the scammer for their verifiable company name, street address, and a callback number, which all real businesses will provide. Every Russian scammer will immediately fail this test since they all use spoofed fake Caller ID numbers or Non-Fixed VoIP numbers (e.g. Skype or Google Voice) that they quickly dispose of. Never trust any unsolicited call because they are mostly scammers, usually with a slight or strong West Russian accent, and most scam calls originate from Russia.

AT&T Wireless

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Scammer

This my phone company

At&t

AT&T

Block ALL UNSOLICITED calls & texts!

AT&T my phone carrier

Legitimate call

AT&T automated message

AT&T fake

AT&T Billing Department - automated message from a legitimate phone number, notifying of a past-due bill.

Att cellphone

AT&T wireless

I constantly get calls from this number and they claim I need to pay my at&t wireless bill. Problem is, I don't have at&t or Cingular. I let the calls just go to voicemail.

Trying to access my att account

Scam Been getting calls since January of 2019 (at least) and have blocked them. Some have been harassed by this bot going on two years...

AT&T

Not a scam but accounts for AT&T, extremely annoying multiple calls if your bill is even a day or so late.

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Scam

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No recording

AT&T phone bill

AT&T

Glad to know RoboKiller app is working again.

ATT message on call back ... not in service.

AT&T

Law suite from Us government Its a recording.it is a scam

Art

If you saw the block list and how big it grew you would understand why I’ve placed call blocking as a primary way of protecting the phones from routing and a helper for surveillance countermeasures. #timesarechanging #norobocallsbefore2015 #nospambefore2015 #nodebtcollectorsbefore2015 #justadumblogger

ATT PAYMENT REMINDER

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Alleged Apple iCloud breech.

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AT&T

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