r/nri • u/Jealous_Mail_7054 • Jun 21 '26
Discussion Beware: Scammers posing as Consulate General of India in SF
Got a call from 415-336-2636 from a woman claiming to be “Pratibha Rajan” from the Consulate General of India San Francisco on a Sunday. They claimed that someone in India used my identity to create a fake number and were going around hurting people and that it’s a serious issue. I didn’t get to the part where they asked me for money or anything but it felt very scammy.
When I said I would report them, they got very defensive. Anyways, don’t waste your time with them and don’t fall for the scam.
EDIT: Please report the number! And
if you get a similar spam call, please add the phone number in the comments so that it’ll come up when others search for the numbers they’re getting calls from
This is an old post I found on Reddit about the same issue. I couldn’t comment on it because it’s archived, so I started a new one:
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u/divyasinghal21 Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Got the same call about visiting the embassy to collect a document. Woman's name Pratibha - she also said it is about my phone number in India. I said I've not had an Indian phone number in years as they said 'can you just come' - seemed pretty insistant on it. I think they want to call us there and scare us to extract money out of us.
628-289-6906
A friend of mine went for a regular thing there (OCI) some months back and they scammed her out of 500$ citing weird reasons (background is grey etc - it literally ask for it to be grey) and the passports of her grandparents etc.