FAKE Cox Communications, AT&T DirecTV, Comcast, or Dish Network impersonation scam by madarchod criminals phoning from India. This is a fake Cox Communications (or AT&T DirecTV, Comcast, or Dish Network) scam by criminals robo-dialing from India, stealing your credit card, Social Security number, and personal identity information. The scam either begins with a pre-recorded message speaking English that is generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of this India scam or you immediately talk to the India scammer who often asks for you by your name in order to sound like a personal phone call to gain your trust, but they are auto-dialing everyone. Scammers use huge phone database listings of millions of names with phone numbers and addresses to have the autodialer display the name that is currently dialed. The India scammer pretends to be from Cox Communications, AT&T, Comcast, or Dish Network and either tells you that your television or Internet service will be suspended due to unpaid fees, or that Cox/AT&T/Comcast/Dish is offering special sales promotions, or that they are offering a service upgrade for a small fee. The fake promotion usually offers a special low rate for a 2-year or 3-year subscription, but you have to prepay $200 to $500 for the first 2 to 6 months in advance, and then the scammer asks for your credit card number or asks you to pay with prepaid gift cards or debit cards. Some scammers also ask for your SSN "for verification purposes". Or the scammer says your service is going to be suspended for some fake unpaid amount and again asks for your credit card number. About 50% of North America scam calls come from India and 45% come from the Philippines. 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 panel and home purchase offers, fake fundraisers asking for donations, fake phone surveys, and the scammers try to steal your financial and personal data. Indian scammers often rotate through fake tech support, subscription auto-renewal, and fake pharmacy scams on the same day. Filipino scammers run many loan and tax/debt relief, Social Security and Medicare identity theft, auto/home/health/life insurance, and fake charity donation 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 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 "How is the weather there?" since IVR cannot answer complex 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 fake 80%-discounted 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, e.g. call him "Randi Ka Beta" (son of whore) or call her "Randi Ka 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 or to 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 19, 2025

Allow this caller.

February 3, 2023

Internet

January 6, 2023

Payment Reminder

September 21, 2022

Saying is cox with number (844)472-8791 This is SCAMMERS😩

August 20, 2022

August 20, 2022

Fake Debt Collection

June 8, 2022

Called me and we don’t use the company.

April 15, 2022

Spam

March 5, 2022

Paid w/my new credit card in full, closing my acc.

December 5, 2021

This caller is blocked, but was still able to leave a recorded voice mail, & it sounded like she was talking to someone, over the recording!

November 11, 2021

C*x provider

November 5, 2021

spam, unknown number, scam

October 22, 2021

C*x cable payment reminder

July 29, 2021

Block

June 23, 2021

Customer service

May 16, 2021

Bill reminder

April 14, 2021

Calls about my account.

January 15, 2021

Real C*x help

December 24, 2020

Payment remember

October 9, 2020

no

September 25, 2020

my internet

September 22, 2020

Informing me my payment is late

September 17, 2020

C*x

August 19, 2020

C*x cable

August 14, 2020

Cable bill

August 11, 2020

Wrong number

July 18, 2020

Collections

July 10, 2020

July 10, 2020

C*x scam

July 1, 2020

Cox calling with a reminder to pay your bill.

June 23, 2020

Internet provider

June 22, 2020

Cable and WiFi for Brickshire

June 8, 2020

C*x customer service

May 27, 2020

robo call, asking to call service center

May 20, 2020

It says you blocked this but I keep getting the call

May 18, 2020

Extrange call, they won’t identify who the are.

May 13, 2020

Pay bill

May 4, 2020

I listed this as a Scam but it could be a Debt Collector trying to get information on an ex-wife again. They left no message, call from (844) 472-8791 came in at 10:28 AM. 1 hour later, at 11:28, I got a second call, this time from (888) 985-8379 listing the same "800 Service." Since 1 Apr, I've gotten 11 calls from this "800 Service" all from different numbers. Some will have a legit Area Code from my area or another state. They never leave a message, though on the second call today, the answering system picked up and I could here a message being played during the system message. But I couldn't make out what it was saying. That message was over before answering service message and the system didn't record that part and hung up. That is the main reason for listing this as a scam. There message started as soon as the answering system picked up the call without a delay. Since the system didn't record that part I couldn't tell if there was a foreign accent or what company they where calling for. I was in another room when it came in. The problems I run into with these "800 Service" numbers, is that most time when I call them back I get a message that this number is Not In Service or it is Disconnected. On a very few occasions I've gotten a message telling me to holed for the next available person. Since they do not identify who they are I hang up as the one time I got someone that were asking for money for some charity and I never give over the phone anymore, as the telemarketer keeps most of the money or they are a scam. Like I've stated before, I've gotten several calls from collection companies looking for information on an ex-wife. They always Google her information and of course my information comes up as ex-spouse or Spouse. That information never lists that we have been divorced for nearly 30 years now. But they usually leave a message after calling for a month or two asking for her and give a contact number.

May 3, 2020

this is C*x with some sort of an interruption

May 1, 2020

Unknown but asked for me by name.

April 29, 2020

Called as though they were Cox cable services. Number first came up as Vietnam ... then they called back with the 1-844 number. This is so sad.

April 26, 2020