Two phone scams in 15 minutes

[OldHippieChick]

8. I get approximately 5-6 calls daily and

if they are not Quicken Loans, they are a tax scam. I no longer answer any number I don't know. If it's legit, they will leave a number. Funny thing is that some of the non-legit ones leave messages and they crack me up. They claim I owe taxes and that the "local cops" will be coming to arrest me. In other words, English is not their native language and they do not understand how our tax system works. The ones who have left messages I have forwarded to the IRS scam list.

An interesting thing for us elder and easier-to-hoodwink-they-think is that these scammers can somehow acquire phone numbers that appear to be similar to our own and we might be more likely to answer. Again, I do not. Am hoping the robots will quit soon or that once tax season is over it will subside.