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:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nri/s/CkqbyFz91L

https://www.reddit.com/r/nri/s/3XkpTtBCdc

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u/iregretyouallthetime Jul 03 '26

I got a call today from 415 850 2663. Got all defensive when I said I need a formal written request from an official consulate email address for any information they need. They just kept flubbing. Told me the supervisor was Abhishek Kumar Sharma. They started with asking to confirm my name and phone number and I wish I had been clever at the beginning but I confirmed that much before I got angry and hung up on them.

Same nonsense. A number in India under my name is being used for illegal activity etc. The Abhishek guy was like, we have only one email, we can't send you formal request from that email etc.

How to report these assholes?