May 3, 2017
They just called back and left a message this time. It's obviously a criminal scam. The pre-recorded message used a text-to-voice reader to parse a script written in very bad English threatening that, if I did not respond "in the next 24 thousand hours" (which is how I assume the computer interpreted 24:00 hours), I would be "taken into custody by the local [coats?] as there are for serious allegations pressed on your name." I couldn't make out the very beginning but it sounded like they were claiming it was a tax problem. They did tell me to call them back at the very number on the caller ID, so I have generously shared all this information with the government.