<div dir="ltr">Unfortunately Scientology is still tax exempt. The story about them losing their tax exempt status was false and you can <a href="http://www.snopes.com/church-scientology-tax-exempt/">read about that here.</a> I've also noticed more robocalls lately but I believe you have to renew your phone number on government's the <a href="https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0108-national-do-not-call-registry">Do Not Call Registry</a> every few years. I've just stopped answering any phone calls from a number that I do not recognize -- if it's someone I know they leave a message and I call them right back. I also do not answer any calls where the number is hidden or "Unknown" -- it's always a pest phone call. <div><br></div><div>The Treasury Dept. and IRS phone calls are a big illegal scam right now and the REAL Treasury & IRS have warned consumers to never give any info or money to people calling on the phone and claiming to be them. The US Gov't will ALWAYS notify you via mail and they do not initiate payment of overdue funds via phone calls. You can <a href="https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml">report any calls you receive claiming to be from the IRS & Treasure here.</a><div><br></div><div>We had one of those scammer driveway paver guys come by our house last week with the old story about "We just finished a job down the street and we have some leftover pavement if you want us to give you a real deal to do your driveway" kind of thing. They were in an unmarked SUV (no business title on the car) and there was a guy sitting in the passenger seat wearing one of those yellow safety jackets, just to make things look legit. I told him to get out of the neighborhood and that I was going to warn my neighbors. Remember if anyone comes to your house and rings your doorbell about doing paving work, <a href="http://eastbayri.com/stories/east-providence-police-warn-consumers-of-possible-driveway-paving-scam,10104">it is always a scammer and do not do any business with them.</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Lisa Rigby</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Coryndon Luxmoore <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:coryndon@luxmoore.com" target="_blank">coryndon@luxmoore.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The calls are more phishing calls they will demand transfer of funds using global pay or an equivalent service. They will do it claiming to be tax folks, utilities, Dell computer etc.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hard to stop crooks from using autodialers these days. There are services that will block known bad numbers but I simply never answer unknown numbers.</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><span>
</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 21, 2016, 7:49 AM Sumati Eberstadt <<a href="mailto:sumieber@earthlink.net" target="_blank">sumieber@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> Today, someone delivered an envelope into our mailbox (it was NOT our Maill Lady) from Scientology, w/ my name and address, and had a non-profit stamp from the state of CA. Is this a felony? Who should one report this sort of behavior to? And is Scientology really a non-profit?<br>
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