Or a copycat

The Spanish Prisoner is a confidence trick originating in the late 16th century. In its original form, the confidence trickster tells his victim (the mark) that he is (or is in correspondence with) a wealthy person of high estate who has been imprisoned in Spain under a false identity. Some versions had the imprisoned person being an unknown or remote relative of the mark.

It seems to have calmed down lately.

never ever believe them. It's like phishing on email. Unless it's a letter and a phone call from you calling into their 800 number, tell them to respectfully go to hell.

until people just learn to automatically hang up on people they don't know. 9.5 out of 10 times it's a scam. If people would just hang up it would put them out of business.

the ones that called me. I told eat s***, bark at the moon and die MF...he was blustering as I hung up laughing in his ear. THAT was fun.

You want to call Social Security's 800 number and Trump contracts it out to Indian call centers that have access to your personal information--Social Security # and other identifying info.

ID theft will skyrocket!

Best nickname yet. I love it!

The tax official impersonation fraud got action on this case.

I've challenged supervisors at some of the Indian firms operating similar smaller-scale scams about the illegality of their many fraudulent calls to us. The reaction? - "Heh heh. Sir, this is a different world." Yeah, but not quite the wild west, it would seem.

Great, keep hacking away at the bottom of the totem pole.

One call center is shut down, two more open, and the bosses keep raking in the money.

It's good show-biz.

....the criminal act they are doing and tell them they ought to be ashamed.

Hey, somewhere on this planet there still has to be a culture where that has an effect.

I used to get calls from these vampires. I recognized them as frauds, but not everyone does.

They leave messages threatening to arrest me, etc. At least I know enough that I know that the IRS doesn't make calls.