Massive and widespread DirecTV impersonation scam by madarchod criminals phoning from India using thousands of spoofed Caller ID numbers! This is a FAKE DirecTV, Comcast, Spectrum, Optimum, or Dish Network scam by madarchod criminals robo-dialing from India, stealing your credit card, Social Security number, and personal identity information. The scam may begin with a pre-recorded message speaking English that is generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of this overseas scam. The India scammer pretends to be from DirecTV, Comcast, Spectrum, Optimum, or Dish Network and tells you either that your television or Internet service will be suspended due to unpaid fees, or that DirecTV/Comcast/Spectrum/Dish is offering special sales promotions, or that they are offering a service upgrade for a small fee, or that they are in the returns department and you owe them money for equipment that you have not returned back to them. The fake promotion usually offers a special low rate for a 2-year or 3-year subscription, but you have to prepay $200 to $600 for the first 2 to 8 months in advance, and then the scammer asks for your credit card number or asks you to pay with prepaid eBay, Amazon, Google, Best Buy gift cards, falsely either saying that these companies sponsored the discounts or that paying him with prepaid cards is safer than using credit cards. Prepaid cards are less traceable than credit card transactions so they are actually safer for the scammer. Some scammers ask for your Social Security number "for verification purposes". If the scammer thinks you are really gullible, he may bait you even more by telling you that he will send a fake ACH "rebate" payment to your bank as a way to steal your bank account/routing number before telling you to buy prepaid debit/gift cards. Or the scammer says your DirecTV service is going to be suspended for some fake unpaid amount and again asks for your credit card number. This same scammer also impersonates tax, debt and loan financing companies everyday, fake fundraisers collecting donations for various fake charities that the fraudsters keep for themselves, pretends to offer fake Medicare, health insurance, auto insurance, and car warranties, and they impersonate banks and tv/internet services. About 62% of North America scam calls come from India, 23% from Philippines, 9% from China/Myanmar. Foreign scammers run thousands of fraud, extortion, money laundering scams every day such as posing as a fake pharmacy, fake Social Security officer saying your benefits are suspended, IRS officer collecting on fake unpaid back taxes, debt collector threatening you for fake unpaid bills, fake bank/financial/FedEx/UPS/DHL scams, posing as utility/phone/internet companies, pretending to offer fake health insurance, car warranty, student loan forgiveness, credit card and debt consolidation services, posing as Amazon to falsely say an unauthorized purchase was made to your credit card, posing as Microsoft/Dell/HP/Apple to say your account has been hacked or they detected a virus on your computer, fake "we are refunding your money" or "your account has been auto-debited" scams, fake Google/Alexa listing scams, fake solar and home purchase offers, fake fundraisers asking for donations, fake phone surveys, and the scammers try to phish your financial and personal data. Indian scammers often rotate through fake tech support, fake auto-renewals/charges, fake pharmacy, many loan and tax/debt relief scams, and fake charity donation scams on the same day. Filipino scammers run many Social Security and Medicare identity theft, and auto/home/health/life insurance scams. Scammers use disposable VoIP phone numbers (e.g. MagicJack) and telecom software to spoof fake names and numbers on Caller ID. Scammers spoof thousands of fake 8xx toll-free numbers. CID is useless with scam calls unless the scam asks you to phone them back. CID area codes are never the origin of scam calls since scams use spoofed CID numbers from across the US/Canada, numbers belonging to unsuspecting people, invalid area codes, and fake foreign country CID numbers; e.g. fake women crying "help me" emergency scams spoof Mexico and Middle East CID numbers. Scammers often spoof the actual name and number of businesses such as banks to trick you into thinking the call is valid. How can you avoid being scammed by phone calls? NEVER trust any unsolicited caller who: sells something (most unsolicited calls are scams so your odds of saving money are very poor); asks for your Medicare or Social Security number; offers debt relief, loan services, Medicare assistance (people who are old or desperate in debt often fall for scams); offers a free gift/reward; threatens you with arrest/lawsuit; asks you to access a website, download a file, wire transfer money or buy prepaid debit/gift cards; claims your account is frozen or has suspicious activity; says a subscription is refunded or auto-renewed/auto-debited; and all recorded messages. Recordings are far more likely to be malicious scams and not just telemarketer spam. All unsolicited callers with foreign accents, usually Indian or Filipino, are mostly scams. No other countries are infested with phone room sweatshops filled with criminals. Most Filipino scammers speak better English than Indian scammers. Filipinos speak English with a subtle accent that may sound Hispanic. To hide their foreign origin, some India scammers use non-Indians in their phone room. Scams often falsely say that you previously contacted them or visited their website. Indian scammers play fake Amazon recordings. Amazon account updates are emailed, not robo-dialed. Many banks use automated fraud alert calls to confirm a suspicious purchase, but always call the number printed on your credit card to verify if the fraud alert is real or fake. Scammers impersonate phone/cable/internet companies, offering fake discounts or service upgrades. Indians impersonate the IRS and Social Security Administration. The IRS/SSA never make unsolicited calls and never threaten to arrest you; they initiate contact via postal mail. Real lawsuits are not phoned in, especially not using recorded threats lacking details; legal notices are mailed/couriered. The police, FBI, DEA never phone to threaten arrest; they show up in person with a warrant. Scammers try to gain your trust by saying your name when they call; your name, address, birthday are public data. Many scammers, especially female Filipinas, use "romance scam" tactics of sounding really friendly as if they are your best friend or lover to try to gain your affection and trust, hoping that you let your guard down so they can easily steal your identity and money. Scammers often play recordings speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech AI translation software to disguise the origin of their overseas phone room. Some speech synthesis sound robotic, but most AI speech sound very realistic. Scammers often use interactive voice response (IVR) AI/NLP software that combines voice recognition with artificial intelligence, speaks English with American voices, and responds based on your replies. IVR calls begin with: "This is fake_name, I am a fake_job_title on a recorded line, can you hear me okay?"; or "Hi, how are you doing today?"; or "Hello? Are you there?"; or "Hi, may I speak to your_name?" IVR quickly asks you a short question to elicit a yes/no reply so it hangs up if it encounters voicemail. One myth is that saying "yes" to IVR lets scammers use your voice sample for other scams. IVR understands basic replies and yes/no answers. To test for IVR, ask "Is the willy fuzzy box open?" since IVR cannot answer complex/odd questions. IVR usually transfers you to the scammer, but some scams entirely use IVR with the robot asking for your credit card or SSN. Phone/email scams share two common traits: the CID name/number and the "From:" header on emails are easily faked, and the intent of scam calls is malicious just as file attachments and website links on scam emails are harmful. Scams snowball for many victims. If your personal/financial data are stolen, either by being scammed, visiting a malicious website, or by a previous data breach of a business server that stores your data, then your data gets sold by scammers on the dark web who will see you as fresh meat and prey on you even more. This is why some receive 40+ scam calls everyday while others get only 0 to 2 calls per week. If you provide your personal data to a phone scammer, lured by 80%-discounted fake drugs or fake loan and debt services, you receive even more phone scams and identity theft can take years to repair. Scammers often shout profanities at you. Google "Hindi swear words" and memorize some favorites; call him "Rundi Ka Beta" (son of whore) or call her "Rundi Key Betty" (daughter of whore). Scammers ignore the National Do-Not-Call Registry. Asking scammers to stop calling is useless. Scam recordings often tell you to press a keypad number to be placed on their Do-Not-Call list, opt out, or unsubscribe from their scam texts/emails, but those keypad commands are fake and they say that just to sound legit. Scammers often provide a toll-free callback number to look like a real business, but they regularly shed old callback numbers so you can never reach the scammers once you have realized that you were scammed. Scammers tell you their callback number just to gain your trust long enough to steal your identity and money and then they frequently switch to using new callback numbers. You do these scammers a favor by quickly hanging up. YOU SHOULD SCAMBAIT ALL SCAMMERS - slowly drag scammers along on the phone call, provide fake personal and financial data (16 random digits starting with 4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard), ask them to speak louder and repeat what they said to waste their time and energy.

August 27, 2026

Black ape who tried to rape me irl and rape

March 11, 2026

Safe caller

June 25, 2025

Block

December 12, 2024

bogus

December 1, 2024

Hi

July 14, 2023

I know my bills do you don’t have to tell me

July 13, 2023

Bill collector

April 9, 2023

unblock

March 14, 2023

We have called AT&T and have learned that our bill is current.

February 28, 2023

Don’t know which segment but it’s either Cell, Internet, or Direct TV

January 11, 2023

Not spam

November 17, 2022

scam call

April 29, 2022

Block and ignore forever!

April 26, 2022

??!!

March 28, 2022

BLOCK

March 24, 2022

This line is crud

March 22, 2022

C**t

March 4, 2022

C**p

March 2, 2022

Scam

February 15, 2022

Unwanted content

January 30, 2022

Someone keeps calling my phone telling me my wireless phone bill is ready well my phone company does not call for anything like that so it’s a person scamming people just to call him probably get our number and give us somehow somehow

January 25, 2022

Good

January 18, 2022

i am handling

January 15, 2022

Okay

January 3, 2022

Phone

August 5, 2021

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.

July 17, 2021

Say they’re calling about your bill.

June 27, 2021

Payment reminder

May 12, 2021

Claims att

March 27, 2021

Allow

January 19, 2021

Payment reminder

November 30, 2020

Pay 11/12

November 7, 2020

Happy to receive

October 19, 2020

scumbag india goat herder stealing your money

September 23, 2020

AT&T Account reminder call

August 12, 2020

Reminder Call

August 6, 2020

AT&T

August 6, 2020

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!

July 31, 2020

AT&T

July 22, 2020

AT&T

June 29, 2020

Wanted To Confirm Phone Number To Proceed With Call

May 5, 2020

My Cell Phone company

April 6, 2020

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.

April 4, 2020

ATT

March 23, 2020

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.

February 22, 2020

AT&T Wireless

February 21, 2020

ATT

February 18, 2020

[deleted]

January 29, 2020

Scammer

December 28, 2019

This my phone company

December 19, 2019

At&t

December 7, 2019

AT&T

November 26, 2019

Block ALL UNSOLICITED calls & texts!

November 16, 2019

AT&T my phone carrier

November 15, 2019

Legitimate call

November 9, 2019

AT&T automated message

September 26, 2019

AT&T fake

September 2, 2019

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

August 11, 2019

Att cellphone

August 1, 2019

AT&T wireless

July 25, 2019

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.

July 9, 2019

Trying to access my att account

June 26, 2019

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...

June 25, 2019

AT&T

June 13, 2019

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

June 7, 2019

ATT

May 9, 2019

AT&T

May 3, 2019

Att

April 29, 2019

Scam

April 28, 2019

AT&T

April 22, 2019

AT&T

April 12, 2019

No recording

April 12, 2019

AT&T phone bill

April 9, 2019

AT&T

April 6, 2019

Glad to know RoboKiller app is working again.

April 4, 2019

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

April 1, 2019

AT&T

March 29, 2019

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

March 19, 2019

Art

March 14, 2019

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

February 13, 2019

ATT PAYMENT REMINDER

January 17, 2019

AT&T

January 10, 2019

Alleged Apple iCloud breech.

January 8, 2019

ATT billing

January 5, 2019

AT&T

December 12, 2018

AT&T

December 12, 2018

AT&T

December 6, 2018

AT&T

November 15, 2018