Ask HN: Where to report fraud phone calls?

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by chrisBob • 12 years ago

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Today I got a robo call asking me to visit Verizon78.com to save $78 off of my next bill. The web page looks pretty good, but I am not a Verizon customer, so I am sure this was a fraud phone call. I can report it since I am not on the do not call registry, but I am not sure if that is the correct place to deal with this.

Can anyone with better web skills than me also pick apart their web page? All of the links look like they point to the regular verizon site, so it is a convincing fake page.

sp332• 12 years ago

http://whois.domaintools.com/verizon78.com Looks pretty fishy. Report the call here https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

chrisBob2• 12 years ago

When I first searched for the whois listing it was not found, and several registrars showed it as available. It was just registered today.

It also seems like I reported it to the correct place. The FTC complaint assistant pointed me towards where I reported this as part of the do-not-call registry when I worked through their process tree.

I am sure it is no accident that this was all setup and started on a weekend when most of the federal agencies will take at least 48 hours to get a report and act on it.

Baldy41• 12 years ago

I got the same call from 800.922.2222 south Carolina state government is what my caller ID said. But it was same message. Save 78 on next phone bill.

chrisBob2• 12 years ago

The page now at least comes with a warning from google when I try to enter. I think in the future I will report it there too as that might be one of the methods that will help others the fastest.

https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Ask HN: Where to report fraud phone calls?

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