IamSundog
Not insane
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- Oct 11, 2002
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Last Wednesday I got a scam call that my social security number had been tied to criminal activity and was going to be suspended. I get 2-3 robo-calls per week like this but this time there was a live person calling, with a distinctly south-asian accent and awkward grammar. I had not much to do so played along for a while, gave him a fake name and address in another state, feigned shock and surprise, protested my innocence. I was curious as to how it would play out. After a while the original guy from Social Security patched me through to the DEA agent in charge of my case. Apparently car theft, drug running and possible murder in El Paso, Texas were involved and unless I cooperated I would face criminal charges. They gradually became convinced that it was a case of identity theft and that I was innocent...then they put me on hold for some reason and I got ANOTHER call from “Atlanta Police” (they apparently deduced this from the zip code I gave them). The “detective” (with similar English language skills) informed me that officers were en route to arrest me and I would be extradited to Texas. I hysterically pleaded with him to call the DEA agent and clear this all up. I actually can’t remember all that went on, it got quite convoluted, but in the end I was back with the Social Security guy who informed me that they had to suspend my SSN and issue me a new one, in order to prevent further identity theft activity, and that the FBI would be involved somehow (?). I began to demand that he explain how that would work, and what would happen to my 40+ years of social security benefits, etc. I told him that I was now very confused because I was looking at the Social Security Administration’s web page where it said there was no such thing as suspending a SSN...he got agitated and told me that I needed to cooperate with the authorities and “stop Googling”. Anyway after about 1-1/2 hours of fooling around with them I told him to go fuck himself and his mama too and hung up. It was entertaining for a while but I didn’t have any more time. I was hoping to get to the part where they start demanding payment of money.