I got a call today from a Canada–US border agent, claiming I had committed a flatulent act.
I've been working from home since March 2020 because of the pandemic. Jeez, if you can't commit a flatulent act in your own home where can you?
Joe
I got a call today from a Canada–US border agent, claiming I had committed a flatulent act.
The Windy City?
Your mistake was being near the border. You thereby contravened the Farting Localised Adjacent To the United States (FLATUS) Act.
I’m now imagining that scammer’s boss bawling him out and saying “You just ring that guy back tomorrow and this time, you better get the fraudulent act bit right, ok!”I just got that call again but this time I apparently committed a fraudulent act at the Canada–US border. Although not explicitly stated, an intercepted shipment of illicit drugs sent using Canada Post was implied.
Accused me of being drug lord and gassy. Well, I never!
Joe
I had a weird one on my mobile yesterday. It rang and on the other end was an irate woman demanding to know who I was, as she'd had a call from my number from someone pretending to be calling from a Government department (or something), and so she was threatening to call the police. So I told her that it was a private number and I most definitely had not called her, and to go ahead and contact the police if she wants as I didn't want my number to be linked with a dodgy phone scam. So I guess scammers can use some sort of software to manipulate the display of the number on the receiving line, in order to disguise their actual number. I did notice that the number of the angry woman was only 2 digits different from my own number.
Anyway, I hope it doesn't happen again.
Here they come in waves. Often a couple of weeks pass without this one, or any of a whole host of scam scenarios and then one or two a day for a while. It was one from "Amazon" yesterday and another "Amazon" today with a different story.Has any one had a phone call threatening to terminate their internet connection. I had one of these today , but I didnt wait for the ransom amount & hung up