Description

I received a voicemail -- but no notification of an incoming phone call -- to my mobile phone on December 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM east coast time. The caller ID is listed as "Unknown" and the phone number provided was +1 (928)-218-8254; that 928 area code matches the city I lived in until July 28th of this year. I got a short, and cut off, voice mail message that reads "Hey, it's Dan from www.reliefcheckhelp.com. Our records show you may have $5286 waiting in a relief check that's already been issued in your name, but has not yet been collected. This could be from --". The voice was very robotic and canned. Notably, I did not have the same legal name I have now when the last COVID-19 relief checks were sent, and I was able to fully and accurately claim all of my allotted monetary relief during the pandemic without issue. I was suspicious of the call being a scam, so I searched this site before doing anything else, wrote this report, and I will now mark the voice message as spam on my iPhone.