CallitasIseeit
Um, I think the Gazette removed your comments. I certainly didn't hit remove. Maybe it is your foul language that was the culprit?
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Thats what i thought all mouth eh CallitasIseeit .

foul language what foul language point it out .

Um, I think the Gazette removed your comments. I certainly didn't hit remove. Maybe it is your foul language that was the culprit?

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callit , nothis is the swear word for illegitmate children , and i can believe with all the swearing just in this blog she s not banned

I was surprised you would be posting today Hannah after your 60 post barrage of nonsense yesterday. I credit your persistence but have to think there are better uses of your time.

Have a good weekend!

Is that pig latin? I have never understood that. C'mon, my post was about the article, isn't that what you want? It was much more relevant than your original chase story.

Opps, I mean CallitasIseeit, sorry!!

justamom - You are my new hero, too funny!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Callit - I was wondering who did that. I saw some crazy lady running down the road, with a glass of wine in one hand and bowl of french onion soup in the other, chasing this balloon. I wish she would have caught it for you.

Yep, I got the same call last week. Just hung up and called the bank. The problem is it only takes a very small percentage of folks giving their info to make it profitable.

I got this same call on my cell phone a week ago - it's interesting that they seem to be only calling cell phones. Anywho - I knew it was a scam but pressed 1 to see what would happen. Everytime they asked for a number I typed the # key and it would say (since I hadn't entered any numbers) "the number you entered is -- silence -- if number is correct press 1" so I did and the last question (asked in very poor English with a hard to understand accent) was for my PIN number! Again I just pressed the # key and it said "thank you your card has been reactivated." Obvious scam.

I got a call a while back instructing me to take my ATM card and attach the pin number to it with a paper clip. Then I was instructed to buy an $80 Longaberger basket and an orange helium balloon, attach the helium balloon to the basket and go release it to the winds on Highway 26. It said if I did this a stranger would call me and give me true meaning of life. I followed the instructions explicitly but nothing ever came of it. I guess no one ever caught the basket.

I got a call about a week ago telling me my atm card was deactivated and it listed a couple of odd reasons, from a bank I don't even bank at. There was no number for caller ID.

hannah, maybe there was nothing in the basket and you were just wasting your time.

The daily gazette is .75. It went up a long time ago. I even forgot what this article was about after reading some posts, oh yeah about that phone call.....Can we say "Caller ID"?

Cost to pick up the Janeville Gazette newspaper Monday through Friday - .50 cents
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Reading hannahs' posts and laughing out loud - PRICELESS

I can't believe that in todays day and age, with all of the hype and supposedly heightened awareness about scams, that people are still falling for them.
Phone / internet / mail scammers prey on people that are greedy, elderly people that may not understand because they grew up in a time when people trusted each other, and mentally challenged people that simply can not fully understand the ways of the world we now live in.
If you have elderly parent(s), sit them down an explain things if you think they may not understand modern scam tactics. Do the same for anyone you think may be mildly retarded. (No, not disrespecting the elderly or the handicapped)

I'm just shaking my head - these forums are more tedious and simultaneously amusing each day.

hannah - you got the freak part right. I couldn't understand the rest of your post so I won't comment on that.

freeradical - I completely agree with you, trying to read her posts is physically and mentally painful. not only are they extremely hard to read but the majority of the time have little or no relevance to the story.

Happened to me on my cell phone last week. I didn't give any information out of course. Then I read article in the paper advising to call your local bank, so I did. My local bank transfered me around and finally was sent to a call center somewhere. They did not seem at all worried or concerned and said since I didn't have the number that the call originated from they couldn't help me. Well duh, that number isn't going to show on my cell phone so it can be traced. Was very disappointed with the lack of concern I received from my bank.

Even banks cannot be trusted, my husband went to our bank on Friday he forgot his check book at home he needed cash, went to our bank and had a check from Wal-Mart (they give them back) he used it to get some cash. He was not asked for identification they just gave him the cash. He asked the teller why he did not ask for ID my husband was told they do not need to ask for ID. Lesson here is if you lose a check be careful anyone can use it.

I have a credit card that I wrote on the back ask for ID I have used this card and have never been asked to show ID, when I question it I was told well it must be you or you would not have questioned me.

We are looking into changing banks.

If you are stupid enough to give personal information to scammers you deserve to have everything you have taken away. Talk to your grandparents. Find out about how to protct yourselves and stop being stupid. My grandmother has never been robbed over the telephone. Scammers are here for stupid people. If your parents are the ones getting scammed then you need to put them in a home and take over thier estate. Just plain stupid people.

freeradical were you born a jerk or did you major in jerk ?

I live in Orfordville and I got called on my cell phone over the week end and I just shut the cell phone off.

Why would a bank deactivate your account, just to call you to have you reactivate? Sometimes they even make you get a different,new card if this were to happen. A little common sense goes a long way. Call the bank or go to an ATM. With all the scams over the phone, you ought to get taken if you're naive enough to just spill your info out at the drop of a hat like this. Natural selection still exists, but now so does electronic selection. =p

I had a voicemail the other day when I got home from work. The only part that got caught on the voicemail was the press "1" for assistance, and then it stopped. I was wondering what it was from, I guess it could have been this scam. I live in Janesville too, so beware.

Though we've heard a million different ways of doing it, these scams work the same way every time. . .you give out personal information over the phone or via internet with no knowledge of who is on the other end. Or wait. . .you've been told you've won a prize but you have to PAY MONEY to claim it?. . ., AGAIN, by giving out your personal information not knowing or checking out who you are giving the information to. Hello?. . .the consequences of providing a stranger with your personal information isn't exactly rocket science. What is mindblowing is why in the hell, (in this day and age) do so many people CONTINUE to fall victim to this over and over and over again?? I don't understand.