Feb 10, 2011
Got a call from this number today, and thank God for caller ID. I hardly ever answer the phone anymore, seems like phone-scams are on the rise, and interestingly this is the second one in weeks I've heard about coming from New York (the other being from Buffalo, where phone-scammers are threatening people over the phone with imprisonment if they don't divulge their bank account information).
The state attorney general offices SAY they can help prosecute fake scammers like this, but they can't do anything without a business' address. A surefire way of telling whether something is a scam? Ask the jerks for their physical mailing address, they will NEVER give it to you. (in other words: if they demand money from you through an account number over the phone, and you turn it around on them by asking them to give you a mailing address so you can mail them a money order, and suddenly they refuse to give any such information... bingo, it's a scam)
If you ARE lucky enough to get an address, report it to the BBB and FTC first. But NEVER give away your money unless you are 100% sure where it's going!