Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747
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So check this out, a 2018 passport says for the hotline to get immunization information for the CDC to dial (877) 347-8747. But that's a scam phone number. It is totally fake and goes to some sales line trying to collect your information for some prize. How does a US Passport get printed with fake phone numbers in it? This is crazy.
Discovered by @CCWTech
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Just checked my older passport and it has the same fake phone number in it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
Just checked my older passport and it has the same fake phone number in it.
Presumably it once was a good phone number and may have not gotten 'renewed'.
Although if it ever was valid, why doesn't it bring up any SEO results?
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@CCWTech It says it's for ADT security once you actually get a live person.
Oddly enough they refused to help with my questions about vaccinations required.
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@CCWTech said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@CCWTech It says it's for ADT security once you actually get a live person.
Oddly enough they refused to help with my questions about vaccinations required.
Did you tell them that it is listed in your passport?
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@scottalanmiller Yeah, he wasn't helpful at all. Wanted to know if I wanted to buy a home security system.
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Now I need to go home and check our passports.
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@Agonnazar said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
Now I need to go home and check our passports.
Ditto.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
So check this out, a 2018 passport says for the hotline to get immunization information for the CDC to dial (877) 347-8747. But that's a scam phone number. It is totally fake and goes to some sales line trying to collect your information for some prize. How does a US Passport get printed with fake phone numbers in it? This is crazy.
And this is what you get for buying a "passport" for $10 from the guy on the corner with the beady eyes and a skullet...
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@scottalanmiller a changed phone number is not a scam. Bad government control of resources? Certainly.
Passports are valid for 10 years (adult), so the government should plan a 10 year cycle to change a phone number.
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@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
Passports are valid for 10 years (adult), so the government should plan a 10 year cycle to change a phone number.
Even those less than a year, though! And there is no record anywhere of that having been a CDC number. Try Googling it!
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@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
Passports are valid for 10 years (adult), so the government should plan a 10 year cycle to change a phone number.
Printing one without doing so would constitute negligence at best, one could say that's a scam. Printing something official for a duration without any attempt to do anything about it, not posting information about it, and not responding to queries about it... hard to excuse as anything but a scam.
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And it goes to a phone number that is clearly harvesting information without saying who they are. The resulting IVR makes no sense if it were a legit business. It's someone harvesting information knowing that they are getting calls solely from people calling for the official government hotline.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
And it goes to a phone number that is clearly harvesting information without saying who they are. The resulting IVR makes no sense if it were a legit business. It's someone harvesting information knowing that they are getting calls solely from people calling for the official government hotline.
Well if I knew this number was in the passport, I would likely have tried to acquire it too. In order to resell it to a scammer for a profit.
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But seriously, my money is on the odds that the number was slammed.
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@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
And it goes to a phone number that is clearly harvesting information without saying who they are. The resulting IVR makes no sense if it were a legit business. It's someone harvesting information knowing that they are getting calls solely from people calling for the official government hotline.
Well if I knew this number was in the passport, I would likely have tried to acquire it too. In order to resell it to a scammer for a profit.
That's what it seems like.
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@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
But seriously, my money is on the odds that the number was slammed.
If so, you'd expect there to be some record of the government announcing not to call it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
But seriously, my money is on the odds that the number was slammed.
If so, you'd expect there to be some record of the government announcing not to call it.
No more - I would expect the government to use eminent domain to demand it turned over to them.. but surprisingly, they haven't even don that..
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@Dashrender said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
But seriously, my money is on the odds that the number was slammed.
If so, you'd expect there to be some record of the government announcing not to call it.
No more - I would expect the government to use eminent domain to demand it turned over to them.. but surprisingly, they haven't even don that..
As of right now, we aren't even sure they know. Scott and I have both tried to report this and so far... crickets.
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@CCWTech said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@Dashrender said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@scottalanmiller said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
@JaredBusch said in Scam CDC Phone Number in US Passports - (877) 347-8747:
But seriously, my money is on the odds that the number was slammed.
If so, you'd expect there to be some record of the government announcing not to call it.
No more - I would expect the government to use eminent domain to demand it turned over to them.. but surprisingly, they haven't even don that..
As of right now, we aren't even sure they know. Scott and I have both tried to report this and so far... crickets.
That's the biggest issue - I'm sure it's been reported.. but whoever received the reports didn't know what to do with the information.
