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Type of a scam Government Agency Imposter
When I returned their call, they said they were with the DEA, and proceeded to tell me the serious charges against me, such as money laundering and theft by deception. They said the DEA raided a home in Texas, and that is where they identified these serious offenses, such as over $2 million transfer for money laundering in my name, and an abandoned rental car at the Texas border in my name.
They proceeded to tell me that the DEA is working with the Department of Treasury, and that if I complied with everything they instructed me to do, then they would be able to confirm this is identity theft, and that I was not involved, and the warrant would be canceled. They said they were giving me an opportunity to prove this was identify theft, due to my clean criminal record.
When I questioned the legitimacy of this, they also said there were scams out there that mirrored the legitimate process of the DEA for this, and that this was indeed legitimate, and the one I was talking to sent me his supposed DEA badge ID for my reference. When I still pushed back, they recommended I locate the phone number of my police department, and they would connect me with them, to verify the warrant details. I did provide them the phone number of my local police department, and they supposedly connected me to an Officer, who verified those exact warrant details against me, and confirmed that this is a legitimate practice of the DEA to work with victims of identity theft with a clean record to be able to cancel the warrant.
They then asked me how much I had in checking and savings, and instructed me to go to my bank, and withdraw a certain amount of money from each in cash right away. They said they needed me to stay on the line with them to make sure I was safe.
Once I withdrew the money, they had me put that cash on gift cards in certain dollar amounts. Once I did that, they said they needed me to read off the card # and access codes to them, so they could take that back to the Department of Treasury, and once they confirmed it, they would provide a receipt. They said they needed to do it in this way, in order to protect my accounts, and put a 2-factor authentication on them for my protection.
They had me repeat this procedure on credit cards, as well, as they said some of my credit cards were red flagged, and someone had tried to use them, so they needed to go through this procedure to be able to validate the cards were mine, and that this was part of the identify theft.
Once that was complete, they provided a receipt, supposedly from the Dept. of Treasury. Then they said they set an appointment with the closest Social Security Administration (they had the correct address of the nearest one to me, as I verified this), and I needed to take my receipts with me, as they would need to cancel my Social Security number, and set me up with a new one, given the identity theft. I would also get all of the money back during that appointment that I had put on the gift cards.
They also required I take a photo of me holding my driver's license and send it to them, as this would be proof of my identity with the Social Security Administration process.
At the end of all of this, they had the money I had put on the gift cards, there was no appointment set at the Social Security Administration office (as I called to verify), and I never heard from them again.
Country United States
Victim Location TX 79707, USA
Type of a scam Identity Theft
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location MI 48178, USA
Type of a scam Identity Theft
Although I didn't transcribe this one, I also get similar messages about a warrent being out for my arrest and that local police will come to my home if I don't call back with my personal information.
Country United States
Victim Location AL 35007, USA
Type of a scam Other
Country United States
Victim Location SC 29078, USA
Type of a scam Phishing
I called the number back, after ringing several times it went to a voice mail stating he was Special Agent Gary Thompson with the DEA to leave a message for a return call. I do not have any further information as far as what he wanted or type of questions he had for me.
I called the DEA Office in Columbia, SC they have verified that this is a scam and he is using several different numbers similiar to this one.