Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy Old Geeks, I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

Stay tuned at the end of this podcast for my sit down with Rob Reed, author of the upcoming novel

After On. We talk about a lot of interesting tech, including Brian's favorite topic, AI.

How about a little follow up?

Uh, I am dealing with a fishing scam this week, Jason. What?

I thought we'd talk about this a little bit. Now this is not something that I'm dealing with

digitally, because I don't click on links and I'm rather savvy at this stuff. But I am getting

regular phone calls, same time every single day, all week from three different numbers,

all of them saying they're either Robo calls, obviously, because there's no real people. So it's

recorded voices of police officers and FBI agents that are after me because of my case with

the Department of Tax Crime Investigation. And there's a word out under my arrest. So I please need

to call this number immediately so I can provide credit card information to pay off my debts.

Wow. Have you contacted anybody about this?

No, because all I had to do was Google the number and it comes up as fishing scam from the

tax and it basically lists off everything that they're saying. And it says it's a complete

nutter scam. They don't provide a badge number. The IRS does not call you and then ask you to call

back at a number. They actually have people call you if they're dealing with this sort of stuff.

It's complete and total fishing scam. So in case anybody else starts getting these calls,

because I've never had them before. This is pretty new. Now you know.

Yeah, this seems something like, you know, the FBI should be dealing with though.

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