Receiving a call from a telephone number belonging to a late Madera resident may not be as spooky as it sounds, but it can be no less menacing to confront, a Tribune reader discovered.<\/p>\n
An alleged scammer appears to be faking his caller identification to mimic longtime Madera numbers, according to Cecelia Bock of Madera. She answered a seemingly local call that notified her that her \u201cwellness package\u201d was ready to be picked up. When she told the caller she was on the national Do Not Call list, he reacted angrily and with foul speech.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what, I don\u2019t care … Tomorrow you\u2019ll pick up your phone and we\u2019ll be having the same conversation,\u201d she recalled him telling her. \u201cI felt very threatened and that is why I called the police. I have no idea if he\u2019s local or if he\u2019s calling from another state, but there was nothing civil or nice about his response.\u201d<\/p>\n
When she spoke with an AT&T representative afterwards, the woman told her the number had not been in use for years. An online search by the representative revealed it to have once been the telephone number of the now defunct Gino\u2019s Nursery.<\/p>\n
\u201cGino Toschi had a nursery for decades until he passed away, but he\u2019s been dead for several years,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a 674 number, and those have been Madera numbers for many years. That is why I picked it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bock shared her story so that others might be forewarned about the new scammer approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, there was beautiful Mozart music playing in the background\u201d when on hold, she said. \u201cIt sounded very professional, but believe me the man was in no way professional. And we know it is a scam because the man was using a defunct number.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Receiving a call from a telephone number belonging to a late Madera resident may not be as spooky as it sounds, but it can be no less menacing to confront, a Tribune reader discovered. An alleged scammer appears to be faking his caller identification to mimic longtime Madera numbers, according to Cecelia Bock of Madera. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43,52],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-law","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}