Victim Location 06033
Total money lost $240
Type of a scam Utility
I received a call from what I believed was a representative of AT&T/DirecTV with a 50% discount offer on my Directv service. The representative offered 6 months of free service with a one time purchase of $239.99 with an EBay card and 18 months of service with added premium channels fir $39.99 a month.
The phone numbers provided are 866-941-0479 855-422-4794 and 737-234-0694.
The names provided are Jane Alter and Shaw Donson.
Victim Location 28105
Type of a scam Phishing
have received call fr #747-255-1242 sayig they are fr ATT/DIRECTV & ca lower ur mothly service chg just give them ur c/c# the you’ll have a 30% credit ew ifo cocerig Acct with ATT/DIRECTV which made him soud legit ma with dia/Pakisto accet thought this should have iformatio set to u
Victim Location 29536
Type of a scam Other
At 5:34 pm tonight, eastern standard time, I received a phone call on my cell phone from a person claiming to work for ATT/DIRECTV. This man stated that I qualify for a reduced bill for the next (2) years, have all the premium channels along with the NFL Sunday ticket for the next (2) years at no additional cost. He also said I will get all of this for (2) years while my bill will be discounted from approximately $197.00 a month to only $149.00 a month. And I qualify for this promotion due to being a long time subscriber/customer. But, I will first have to go to a Walgreens, Target or some other store and purchase a EBAY card and load $300.00 dollars onto the card and call them back at this number: 888-588-2434 extension 1. That number and extension was sent to my cell phone by this other number: 310-347-0487. They also said I would receive a $100.00 visa card to use wherever I wanted. I could not get any of this promotion if I did not load the $300.00 dollars on the EBAY card and send it to them first and foremost. After trying to get all the information from them that I could, I called DIRECTV myself and asked about this promotion. They said it was a scam just as I thought it was. Directv has a promotion similar to this promotion but it is for first time subscribers, not the long time subscriber such as myself. I really feel these people are scamming many people into having that $300.00 dollars sent to them and they just loose their hard earned money and get nothing in return. Please look into this if at all possible. Again, they used (3) different phone numbers, they are as follows:
The number they called me with was: 1-800-288-2020. After I hung up, they called me back twice.
The number they text me to call after putting money on the EBAY card to send to them was: 888-588-2434 extension 1.
That text came from the following number: 310-347-0487.
Thank you very much. I hope this is useful and I hope you can do something to stop this scam.