I was in a car accident. :(
@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
Perth, Australia
March 6, 2019 2:59am CST
I am sitting in the lounge room with my dad and the phone rang. It was some dude telling me that I was in a recent car accident. 
And I was badly injured. I can't believe this is happening to me! 
How stupid are these calls though! They almost always say "Hi ma'am I'm calling you in regards to the car accident you had recently. Were you in a car accident?"
So....you're telling me I was in one but asking me if I was? 
They never tell me my name either lol Always "Ma'am." A name is something they kinda need to know to get hold of the poor injured soul.
Sometimes I play along with them and tell them how upsetting it was and how much pain I am in and then when the time is right I tell them to shove their scamming ways up their butt. ( comments may vary )
These scammers are unbelievable. 
Do you ever get these phone calls where they try to make you pay "insurance money" for the "car accident" you were in?
And I was badly injured. I can't believe this is happening to me!
How stupid are these calls though! They almost always say "Hi ma'am I'm calling you in regards to the car accident you had recently. Were you in a car accident?"
So....you're telling me I was in one but asking me if I was?
They never tell me my name either lol Always "Ma'am." A name is something they kinda need to know to get hold of the poor injured soul.
Sometimes I play along with them and tell them how upsetting it was and how much pain I am in and then when the time is right I tell them to shove their scamming ways up their butt. ( comments may vary )
These scammers are unbelievable. Do you ever get these phone calls where they try to make you pay "insurance money" for the "car accident" you were in?32 people like this
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
6 Mar 19
@LadyDuck oh I agree! 
I am glad you don't get them! They are a pain to deal with sometimes!
I am glad you don't get them! They are a pain to deal with sometimes!2 people like this
@LadyDuck (471508)
• Switzerland
6 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 You get all kind of annoying phone calls, it's horrible.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@LadyDuck Totally agree! We get them often. It's usually that scam where people tell me I have a virus on my computer. A couple days ago we got one. I put them on loud speaker so my dad could hear. And I whispered to my dad "I can get him to hang up."
The guy on the phone rambled about how they are getting reports that my computer has a virus blah blah all that bull crap. I said "Oh....I don't have a computer." And he hangs up haha 
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
6 Mar 19
@srisahara I wasn't really in a car accident. It's a joke about a scam call I got today.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@playertwo I love messing with them. Every minute people waste their time, is time they are not scamming others.
@WorDazza (15830)
• Manchester, England
9 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 I may have had a number of blows to the head but I'm still not that daft!
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@WorDazza haha! That MUST be the reason. And the people on the phone are just "helping us." Maybe if we paid them money we would remember. 
Not bloody likely!
Not bloody likely!1 person likes this
@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
6 Mar 19
so what did they say was the reason you're going to jail? and what did you tell them?
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@lovebuglena (44537)
• Staten Island, New York
6 Mar 19
And why were you going to jail? 
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@Ladanger (14578)
• United States
7 Mar 19
@lovebuglena it said i owed thousands of dollars lol
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@marguicha (223020)
• Chile
9 Mar 19
I even had a call telling me that one of my daughters had been kidnapped. I was supposed to send them money.
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@marguicha (223020)
• Chile
10 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 My youngest daughter would not believe it and they did the same to her the same day. She took out the phone and hid it. I don´t know if she is still paying for it. But she only uses her cellphone.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
10 Mar 19
@marguicha That is absolutely horrible! I've never heard of that happening before for a scam! That is disgusting and I'm sorry you went through that!
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Mar 19
They have not got that far yet here but they try things on like you owe the Electric company a huge bill and they need to collect it and how do you want to pay it.
I just put the phone down on them always now.
You can bet if you were to do the same thing to them they would not like it at all.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
10 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13
I think its dreadful that they are allowed to get away with it I really do.
What goes around comes around someone might just do the same thing back if they so wish to.
They are not going to like it at all.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
10 Mar 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 I agree with you! How these things don't get shut down amazes me! And I sure do hope they get everything karma owes them!
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
10 Mar 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 I have thought the same thing. I'm sure they would get all angry and feeling insulted that people would try to scam them even though they are low enough to be trying it themselves!
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@rebelann (112878)
• El Paso, Texas
9 Mar 19
Some have but the ones that are simply recordings when you answer never do @VivaLaDani13 they drive me nuts sometimes.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@rebelann I get calls on my mobile too! It's ridiculous! Did they leave you alone when you asked them to stop calling?
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
10 Mar 19
@rebelann oh yeah those ones! Hey do you ever get these weird ones where you pick up the phone, hear nothing for a bout a few seconds, a beep goes off and a woman says "Good bye." Do you ever get those?
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@moffittjc (121586)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 Mar 19
Oh wow, I haven't had a scam like that happen to me yet, but I'll be on the lookout for it if they ever do try to call me.
Weirdly, I have been getting a lot of scam phone calls where the voice at the other end (or the voicemail message if I don't answer) is speaking to me in Chinese. Like how the hell are you supposed to scam me if I can't even understand what you are saying to me? That one baffles me.
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@moffittjc (121586)
• Gainesville, Florida
12 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 If the Indians are speaking English, I can make out what they say most of the time. But if they are talking fast, it is sometimes hard to keep up with them.
Don't you talk to DJ on the phone? Can you understand her? From watching her YouTube videos, she speaks good English.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
12 Mar 19
@moffittjc Yeah I am the same. Sometimes I can't understand either if they go to fast. Kinda like Scottish people. There are some I can understand but others speak so fast with a thick accent that I can't understand a thing.
I can. At first I had a little bit of trouble but over time it became easier. But we haven't spoken that much at all really. I've sent her a lot of videos via Facebook and I don't believe she struggles to understand me at all. She's only sent me a few and there's probably only been 2 sentences I couldn't make out but that's also because she has a very soft voice. It's so cute! I wanna hug her voice!
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
11 Mar 19
@moffittjc Yeah I don't understand those either. I haven't had Chinese but I've had a few Indians speaking something to me and I have no idea what's going on.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@andriaperry That is an awesome trick! But....not sure if it would work for me. I've had some who randomly tell me how cute my voice is and they ask me if I'm married and ask for my Facebook or Whatsapp details.
That is an awesome trick! But....not sure if it would work for me. I've had some who randomly tell me how cute my voice is and they ask me if I'm married and ask for my Facebook or Whatsapp details. 1 person likes this
@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@andriaperry I hope you never get that call in the future. They are just annoying at times.
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
6 Mar 19
You lost your memory in the accident and that is why you don't remember you were in one. 
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
9 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 Yeah! *nods seriously*
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@Nevena83 It sure is terrible. It's because they are pretending to work for Car Insurance. They try to get people to pay them money. Just scammers trying to take money away from innocent people.
It's because they are pretending to work for Car Insurance. They try to get people to pay them money. Just scammers trying to take money away from innocent people.1 person likes this
@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
7 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 I never had such a call ... and I do not complain
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@LowRiderX lol you are very lucky!
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@LowRiderX I wish I was lucky like that! lol I'm sick of these calls.
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@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
9 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 For this, you can call it that
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@snowy22315 (180708)
• United States
6 Mar 19
I get one all the time offering to underwrite my medical brace..I have none of course! 
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@snowy22315 lol wow! I've never heard that one before!
@Marty1 haha! My goodness. I've never heard of these ones before. I can't believe how many scams there are!
@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
11 Mar 19
@Marty1 I like that too. The more people who know about this, the better.
@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
9 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 I hope people don't fall for this one either. Scams are just awful. I don't like any of it.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@dodo19 It is a weird one. But I hope people don't fall for it. I hate any type of scam. Disgusting people they are.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
6 Mar 19
Lol, you play along that is the funny part when you play with the scammers because you know they are scammers. I hate them they drive me nuts and the tried this one on my husband grandfather once. Calling saying my husband was arreset and in jail and he needs money to get out. He was like wait would his wife take care of this or she would call. So he told the guy that he would call him back later and to leave his info so he did. Then he called my husband but he was at work and told him to text him what was the matters
My husband told him no he is at work not in a different state arrested nor hurt so not to give that person a call nor money.
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
10 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 there has probably been a few
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@ShyBear88 That is awful! I've not heard of that one before. I wonder how many people have fallen for that one.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
10 Mar 19
@wanghui It doesn't cost me anything for them calling me. I'm not sure how much it costs them but I hope it's quite a bit of money so they lose money too! They don't deserve any money for their dishonesty.
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@lovebuglena (44537)
• Staten Island, New York
6 Mar 19
I used to get the IRS scam calls but now I get spam calls where the voicemail left is always the same and in Chinese. Never had any other calls... I never pick up unknown numbers anyway, so maybe I did get calls like that but they just never bothered to leave a voicemail.
These people are idiots... the least they can do is say your real name... And if they are saying you were in a car accident they shouldn't ask if you were in one after saying that...
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@lovebuglena (44537)
• Staten Island, New York
11 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 If it's like therapy that's good.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@lovebuglena I agree with you. Idiots indeed! And that's the thing that is so dumb is that they never say my name. They never request to speak to anyone in particular. If it was real they would ask for the person who in was in the accident just like you said. Some times it makes me laugh and other times it annoys me to the point I yell at them for being so dumb and insensitive. Sometimes they make a good outlet for me to vent any anger I may have inside lol
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@dgobucks226 (35608)
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6 Mar 19
I've never heard of that one before? I think someone would know if they were in an accident. I guess they figure if they make enough calls they will eventually hit upon somebody who was in a recent crash.
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@VivaLaDani13 (60794)
• Perth, Australia
9 Mar 19
@dgobucks226 That's the thing. It's like a lucky dip for these tossers. They make so many calls a day over a very very long time. Eventually they will find people who were unlucky enough to be in a crash.
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@dgobucks226 (35608)
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9 Mar 19
@VivaLaDani13 Yes, right... Like a company soliciting business except their preying on unsuspecting, honest people.
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