sb wrote:
A guy in Florida was just arrested two weeks ago - said to be behind many of the scam calls doctored to appear local. The initial message would say it was from the Hilton, etc., but then would move you on to scammers in Mexico. My phone is from when I lived in Maine, so it was pretty funny to get phone calls from "The Hilton" that supposedly originated in Machias, Maine - a long, long, way from any Hilton...
Yes, they are clever, and they prey on the gullible.