Spectrum

Not my account, didn’t ask for reminders.

Placed order

Wanted payment

Keep the number

Reminder to pay bill

Payment reminder

Cable

Cable

Spectrum Cable

Cable

They’re relentlessly annoying

Spectrum

Cable and Internet

Fake Spectrum scam by madarchod criminals phoning from India This may be a valid call from Spectrum, but India scammers have been spoofing the Caller ID name and number of thousands of businesses and banks to impersonate them, trying to steal your credit card, Social Security number, and personal identity information! The scam versions of these calls spoof the Caller ID numbers for Spectrum, AT&T DirecTV, Dish Network, or Comcast. The India scammer pretends to be from Spectrum, AT&T, Dish Network, or Comcast and either tells you that your television or Internet service will be suspended due to unpaid fees, or that they are offering special sales promotions, or they are offering a service upgrade for a small fee. The fake promotion usually offers a special low rate for a two-year subscription, but you have to pre-pay $200 to $500 for the first two to six months in advance, and then the scammer asks for your credit card number. 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. More than 95% of North America phone scams come from India scammers who operate hundreds of fraud, extortion, and 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; 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 or your Prime membership was auto-debited from your bank; 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 and work-from-home scams; posing as an electric utility or Verizon-AT&T-Comcast to say your service is suspended; fake solar panel and home purchase offers; fake fundraisers asking for donations; fake phone surveys; and the scammers try to steal your credit card, bank account/routing number, Social Security number, and personal information. A India call center may rotate through a fake Social Security, computer subscription auto-renewal, pharmacy, and credit card offer scam during one week. Scammers use disposable VoIP phone numbers (e.g. MagicJack devices) or they spoof fake names and numbers on Caller ID. Anyone can use telecom software or a third-party service to phone with a fake CID that displays a fake name and number. India scammers spoof thousands of fake 8xx toll-free numbers. The CID is useless with scam calls unless the scam asks you to phone them back and CID area codes are almost never the origin of scam calls. You waste your time researching CID since scams use spoofed CID numbers from across the US and Canada, numbers belonging to unsuspecting people, invalid area codes, and also fake foreign country CID numbers; e.g. fake women crying "help me" emergency scams from India spoof Mexico and Middle East CID numbers. India scammers also spoof the actual phone numbers of businesses such as Apple, Verizon, and 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 Social Security number; offers a free gift or reward; threatens you with arrest/lawsuit or says you need to reply back soon (pressure tactic); asks you to access a website, download a file, wire transfer money or buy gift cards; claims suspicious activity on your account; says your subscription is being refunded or auto-renewed/auto-debited; and all pre-recorded messages. Recordings are far more likely to be malicious scams and not just telemarketer spam. All unsolicited callers with foreign accents, usually Indian, should immediately be suspected as scams. Many scams falsely say that you inquired about a job, insurance, social security benefits, or that you previously contacted them or visited their website. A common India phone scam uses a fake Amazon recording about a purchase of an iPhone, but Amazon never robo-dials and Amazon account updates are notified in emails. Many banks use automated fraud alert phone calls to confirm a suspicious purchase, but always verify the number that the recording tells you to phone or just call the number printed on your credit card. A common India scam tactic asks for your credit card for purchase of their fake product or service. The scammer calls you back one day later to say their credit card machine is broken, so you must wire transfer the payment to them. After you have wired the money to them, they still overcharge your credit card after they change phone numbers, so they rob you twice before disappearing. Wire transfers laundered through foreign bank accounts are untraceable. Scammers try to gain your trust by saying your name when they call, but their autodialer automatically displays your name or says your name in a recording when your number is dialed using phone databases that list millions of names and addresses. Scammers often call using an initial recording speaking English, Spanish, or Chinese that is easily generated using text-to-speech translation software to disguise the origin of their India phone room. Some speech synthesis software sound robotic, but others sound natural. To hide their foreign accents, some India scammers use non-Indians in their phone room. India scammers often use interactive voice response (IVR) robotic software that combines voice recognition with artificial intelligence, speaks English with American voices, and responds based on your replies. IVR calls begin with: "Hi, this is fake_name, I am a fake_job_title on a recorded line, can you hear me okay?"; or "Hi, this is fake_name, how are you doing today?"; or "Hello? (pause) 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. IVR robots understand basic replies and yes/no answers. To test for IVR, ask "How is the weather over there?" since IVR cannot answer complex questions and it keeps talking if you interrupt it in mid-sentence. IVR usually transfers you to the scammer, but some scams entirely use IVR with the robot asking for your credit card or SSN. A common myth is that IVR calls record you saying "yes" so scammers can authorize purchases just using your "yes" voice, but scammers need more than just a recorded "yes" from you - credit cards and 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 0 to 2 calls per day. If you provide your personal and financial data to a phone scammer, lured by fake 80%-discounted drugs or scared by fake IRS officers, you receive far more phone scams and identity theft can take years to repair. Most unsolicited calls are scams, often with an Indian accent. No other country is infested with pandemics of phone room sweatshops filled with criminals who belong to the lowest India caste and many are thieves and rapists who were serving jail time but released early due to prison overcrowding. India scammers shout profanities at you. Just laugh at their abusive language. Google "Hindi swear words" and memorize some favorites, e.g. call him "Rundi Ka Bacha" (son of whore) or call her "Rundi Ki Bachi" (daughter of whore). Scammers ignore the National Do-Not-Call Registry; asking scammers to stop calling is useless. You do these scammers a favor by quickly hanging up. But you ruin their scams when you slowly drag them along on the phone call, always give them fake personal and credit card 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.

Spectrum

Spectrum cable

Calls incessantly until you pay the bill.

S

Spectrum Cable

Cable

Changes to my cable bill announcement

Cable Company

Spectrum

Spectrum

Charter/Spectrum

Cable

Update account

Internet service

cable

Needed utility, Spectrum

cable

Cable

Claimed to be Amazon and tried to debit $300 from my account for an order I didn’t place.

Telemarketing

Spectrum

Spectrum

Its a Legit number that is MENT for spectrum customers, however for whatever reason they kept getting wrong numbers and can sometime get some very unpleasant yelling, just state that you are on the wrong number or at the VERY least request the Do not call list.

wants $$$$$

Unknown

Internet

Kaiser Hospital

My Spectrum

Spectrum cable

It is a scam. The person I spoke with said that I had a cash loan. Big scam because they don’t even do payday loans in my state she hung up real quick.

Phone number to call back fake

Spectrum Cable

Spectrum

Good number

Is legit

j.fur 49

This is NOT a scam!!! This is for cable/internet service...

spectrum

It's legit. It's an account call. But if you didn't get a follow up text, call back with a different number directed to customer service to protect yourself. The proper call back number is noted on you bill.

Call regarding the account of __________ ____________. If this is _________'s phone number, please press 1 if they're available to come to the phone. Press 2 if they can't come to the phone right now. Press 3 if we've reached the wrong number........ Sure sounds like either an advertisement or something similar. I called the number back and it is in fact Spectrum. I simply hung up when they asked for the phone number I'm calling about.

Don’t answer!

Spectrum scam

internet company

How do I cancel this subscription

Spectrum

Unknown scam

Not Scam

Scam

Spectrum

calling for Amanda gross

Spectrum Advertising

Spectrum

Spectrum

Start doing a better job stopping scam calls stop s******g off

From spectrum sales

Spectrum

Spectrum cable due

The credit card on my Spectrum account had expired. I needed to update it. This was actually a decent robocall. One of out a million isn't too bad!

No message left. Have called several times

Roofing salesman

if not a scam it called 6 times in 30 seconds which is wrong and irritating to think they can force people to answer by tying up the phone even if youre on phone with someone else

Cable scam

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.

This is my wifi provider , it’s an automated message , but important. Thank you

Internet Service

It was Spectrum

Scan

They say they are spectrum but they are not

They called claiming to be Verizon and said my account was suspended for non payment. First of all, if it was Verizon, it would say it through caller ID. Secondly, Verizon happily deducts my money automatically from my account every month. Definitely not legit.

Spectrum changes in service - real call

SOMEONE NEEDS TO STOP THIS SHIT ! ! ! I’m waiting for calls from doctors and never know what calls to answer and not answer ....

[deleted]

Won't stop calling, Asking for wrong person

Spectrum

Cable company

Spectrum

Lower your interest rates on you non-existent credit card debt.

Spectrum

Spectrum Scam

This is Spectrum’s legitimate number

Spectrum

It's just Spectrum cable. They have various numbers that they call me from. They're just letting me know that I am past due and in danger of disconnection if I don't pay. I am always late, so I get these calls once a month. You can either pay through that call, or you can call them back and make payment arrangements, but it does not let you talk to a person from that call. To talk to a person you have to call that same number back. When you call the number back, it is the the same voice and speech you get when you call the main number. You can speak to someone, but the automated voice already knows how much I owe and my name, before I even say anything so I know it's real. You get the exact same message from calling back this number as you do when you call the known number that you know about. They don't always use the same number, but multiple numbers.

To call back reg my Edison bill because it subject to get disconnected due to none payment

a*****e

Automated call that claims to be spectrum with an important notice about your account and you have to call in 24 hours. That isn’t a spectrum number.

fingerhut collections

Didn't pick up so didn't know who it was. My phone is on Do Not Disturb and somehow the call got through so my phone vibrated. They called 3 times consecutively. Didn't pick up any of them.

Trying to hawk unwanted services under the guise of it being an "important message" - just more spam from the worst company in the world. Spectrum truly are the Donald Trump of companies.

Spectrum

Caller ID says "spam?" And calls like that I don't answer. They called this morning and at 8 o'clock at night just now

Per other comments here this number calls me six times today never leaves a message

TOTAL SPAM AHOLES!!!!!!

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