Oct 10, 2013
Caller was male with Mexican sounding accent (and sort of slurred sounding) claiming to be with the "Drug Enforcement Administration".
Stated that (named person in household) was subject of ongoing investigation and if this person did not call back that a "warrant would be issued for their arrest".
Couple of problems:
1) called it the drug enforcement "administration" (correct, but most people would say "agency".
2) cannot imagine that a matter this serious (already threatening with arrest) would be dealt with via answering machine message. I mean, this is the first we've heard about a matter involving the DEA and jail time (warrant for arrest, anyway) is mentioned as consequence for not returning phone call.
3) truly not involved with any illegal drug activity, prescription or otherwise, so scare tactic fails to scare, and 4) guy did not exactly have mastery of spoken English language, a skill you'd think an actual DEA agent would possess. Sounded Mexican with some alcohol, which by itself sends no red flag, but DEA in the middle of the day...should prolly be sober, just sayin'.
This has all the hallmarks of a solicitee fishing scam, which I learned about today from this site (thank you!), which involves trickery in their getting around the "do not call registry" resrtictions. By getting you (me) to CALL THEM, which gives them your (MY) number (via caller ID), and changes the status of any follow up calls to "solicited" (you called them, after all), effectively removing your number from the DNC registry. Your number is then assembled with others onto a list and sold to telemarketers, who apparently are desperate for human contact, which by default cannot be satisfied by their co-workers.