Left a voice mail offering to give me 855.00 go to att8555.com,att cares abot you. 14 second voice mail this morning. Im with Tmobile now been for 2 years.

I didnt answer left a voice mail saying if I went to att855.com I would get my 855.00 back. Att cares about you. What 855 idk im with Tmobile have been for 2 years now

I've received a similiar call. This is a scam.

Read this people. Just because Deaf or hearing impaired people can't HEAR, doesn't mean they can't read or type an email.


Make sure you make them pay through paypal only. Paypal.com will confirm the address and the person credit card. You can't go wrong unless the scammers have access to a paypal account.

My husband and I own a drycleaners in Ky.  We got a call today from someone using the relay service trying to say they were moving here from Colorado and wanted to send us 60 comforters to be cleaned. They needed to send us a check for the full amount plus the $1290.00 for shipping so that we could send the shipping money via western union to the person taking care of the shipping.  As soon as they said that I knew it was a fake and hung up. People have the nerve using a service for the handicap to screw people.

Caller said she was deaf. She was representing the Faith Diabetes Foundation and wanted to buy the cheapest diabetes supply for charity. She wanted to order worth $3,724.41 of merchandise. Did not want to leave me a phone number for the organiztion or a Business license number. She/he claims that it was her/his business. Proposed to pay cash (generous for charity). Followed phone call with a fax # from another state. Wanted to pick up right away. Asked for credit card policy.This is surely a SCAM. They are trying to find the best price to re-sale. DO NOT DEAL with any person solliciting business with no proof of identity and using TTY.

SAME THING JUST HAPPENED TO ME. I AM IN OHIO THEY WANTED 100 LARGE PIZZAS FOR A WEDDING AND WANTED US TO CHARGE AN EXTRA $950 TO THE CC FOR THE DRIVER TO PICK UP. I HUNG UP THEY CALLED BACK AND I TOLD THEM THIS SMELLS LIKE A SCAM. HUNG UP AGAIN THEY DID HOWEVER GET MY NAME AND THE BUSINESS ADDRESS WHICH IS SCARY.

most internet relay calls nowadays are from nigerian scammers

Experienced  the similar scam last weekend - the customer ordered 200 count of the same dish to be picked up and instructed me to overcharged on the credit card a fee which I shall wired, using Western Union, to a special courier.  The name "Western Union" was what triggered my suspicion.

We are selling puppies but rather than an 800 number we were receiving Yahoo texts with the same scam, hearing impaired, we will send check and you send money back western union.  3 different yahoo people and numbers but same scenario and "DEDUCT THE MONEY THAT ACQUIRE TO YOU"  quite suspicious.  I was glad to check the internet on this phrase and hearing impaired to find this information.  Thank you for sharing and for anyone else out there it is still happening - be careful!

A person came on the line and said he was a tty (hearing impaired) relay service.  He told me to hold on and I waited, I questioned if there were any charges to my phone, he told me no.  No one came on the line so I hung up. WIERD!!!!!

BEWARE   SCRAMMER:    on 2-18-2011 received call from a operator, teletype for a hearing impaired, calls name Mrs Melissa Williams ordering 200 grilled chicken Ceasar Salads for Feb 26, 3PM Pick up Courier, e-mail: melissa WL08@yahoo.com.
thought this was pretty wierd but I sent the  e mail today verifing order and requesting full payment this week before order is filled, left my name and cell phone.  Reply tonight by teltype operator verifying my name, while waiting for respone operator informed me this call was coming from Nigeria, sees this all the time and this is a scram,  thankful we have honest/helping operators out there....... pretty sick that we have these scrammer out there.  proably using a stolen credit card..........

I think somebody jusgt called me trying to scam me. I am selling puppies and they wanted me to take a certified check and pay the person who was going to pick the puppy up out of the check. I was kind of leary when the caller had to keep telling me the reason why they could not call me was because they are hearing impaired. I just want to find my pups good home and not be scammed in the process.

got re-lay call from michael ford for shipping of a boat. wants us to charge him 2x then western union him the difference. gave us 2 cc#'s.  weird part is 1 of them is local & has done boat work w neighboring buis. he called back 3 weeks later not realizing he tried this SCAM w us before.

Our business received 2 TTY assisted calls but the caller ID showed 2 different(504)area code phone numbers. On reverse look-up these were private unlisted numbers. The service the supposed "customer" wanted didn't make sense, so we had a heads up that something wasn't right.
We then received a message on our recorder from 800-855-0000 - "consider me an interested person - this caller is probably a scammer - be very careful when dealing with this person."
Thank you AT&T relay operator who is probably putting their job in jeopardy by such a warning.

Scammer, probably from Nigeria using IP Relay- wanted to order 7 really large arrangements,  pay for it with a credit card,  charge $100 extra and have us pay $1000 via Western Union to an unnamed "shipper" who would be picking these up -  
Shame on these scammers who abuse a legitimate service that is a lifeline to the hearing impaired!

ugh! i dont care if its legit or not. i dont know anyone who would call me using tty and i get 3 calls a day from this number. it needs to stop

I have no idea who it was as they apparently couldn't hear me for some reason.  But they just wouldn't hang up... I was trying to see how long it would take, but she just sat there saying "Hello?" for over 5 minutes.  I have no idea which of my numbers they called because I have 199 different numbers all over North America that forward to my BlackBerry.  The best part is though that only my exclusive clients have these numbers.

i got a call from this number today, probably from my yellowbook ad for my computer shop. it was lady saying what a mute user was saying...the guy wanted to buy 5 grand worth of laptops and have them overnighted...so it sounds to me alot like a 419 scam...im a small business guy so i cant afford it, i dont know what to do

someone called me this morning with questions about trying to learn how to ride bikes and had all my friends info and mine.Very strange.

I can understand it being a relay call because that's how i can communicate with some of my relatives when I don't have the tty plugged up. Whether or not someone is using the services to try to scam you all i don't know. I know that Relay services for the hearing impaired are very legit. I will have to wait for another call from them to see if this is indeed the relay number.

I received a call today from a lady w/AT&T tele-typing for a hearing impaired man said his name was Michael Ford. Wanted to know if we did brake work. He wanted to have his car shipped from PA to GA. He was having surgery in 2 days and recently located to our area. He was going to give us credit card info for $3500 and send the difference. We told the teletyper sounded like a scam and she told us he had hung up.

this number call me twice and never said any thing both times

Well. I happen to know a lot about relay. Yes that whtat it is. Its for deaf or hard hearing people. The call you from the computer using one of the relay employees. I know a lot of my friends use it for prank calls though. AT&T is one of the relay users. It has very easy access all you have to do is go 2 AT&T relay and click make a call. type in the persons phone number and your in. So its most likly by somone you know pranking you.

and if u answer it once and tlk to them the stop. I get one from my brother or one of my friends every week. (there not deaf) so no alarm its really nothing.

This number has called my place of business 2x. I own a Body & Mechanical repair shop. They were trying to get me to wire $3,000 to Texas to have a vehicle towed to my shop in MD. I told them that I was on to their Scam and they hung up. The operator identified herself as a TTY operator for AT&T.

This is a tty and because I advertise online, scammers use this service to try the basic Nigerian scam. They must use the tty so we cannot hear the accent. If you advertise goods or services online that can be bought by private individuals, if you get these calls, they are most likely scams.

I have been receiving calls from this number non-stop asking about my photography services.  I told the relay person I prefer to communicate by email because there is a lot of information and pricing to provide. I got the person's email address and sent her a message, but i still get 2 calls a day.  I just stopped answering.......

Don't trust anyone who calls like this. They will ask you to take a credit card for something & wire the money to someone else for them.  BIG TIME SCAM!!

Someone made a call with the AT&T Relay Service when you get calls from this service. They are looking for Cat & Cummins equipment parts. We get a few calls every single month, useually from the same guy. He faxes 7 emails us too, but it almost 99.999999% of the time is a SCAM! These calls are usually scams. They are supposed to be from people who are deaf and access the internet, but people scam them. It is a terrible shame that this service is abused.

DUDE! THIS IS THE MOST AMAZINGG ADVICE 4 PRANKS EVERRR KNOWN 2 MAN! U GET ON AT&T RELAY AND THERE YOU GO. ITS AMAZINGG! ME AND MY FRIENDS LOVE IT!

Yes, same story with me. I just opened a restaurant. Someone called using reley services. They placed an order for 200 guests for a wedding. They kept avoiding giving me details as well. They asked me to send money via Western union to pay the person that will be picking up the food. I was to pat them with extra money they charged on the credit card over the phone. They were very vague in reasons why it had to be done this way. Eventually I demanded to speak with a representative of the company who is picking up the food. When the supposed manager called me, I ran the number from whitepages.com under reverse phone lookup, and the number came back to a cell phone in North Carolina. which didn't make sense because my business is in Indiana, where I was suppose to send the money was in Georgia, and the supposed customer had a Texas cell phone number. When I spoke with the currier he first answered the phone with an African accent, by the end of the conversation he sounded Chinese.