You’ve gotta be scared when you hear “the federal government is going to sue you”!
You wonder how anybody could fall for such an obvious scam. Really! The whole federal government? Gunnin’ for l’il ol’ me?
But there must be an awful lot of dangerously credulous people out there, or we wouldn’t get phone calls like this. And there wouldn’t be so many of them if we didn’t have such an immoral culture.
All known as phishing, trying to get information by frightening the respondents with some stupid threat.
The fact that these scam calls continue year after year is proof that they work. As they say, “You can’t fix stupid.”