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Yes... I don't know why people are answering numbers they don't recognize.
My 92yo mother gets a "Caller Unknown" ring & stares like she's hypnotized until she has to answer the phone & it's yet another telemarketer. I tell her that her answering the phone puts her number on a "live number" list that will increase the robocalls she will get but ... The telephone is her crack, she can't resist!
What is something new is that they are using local area code phone numbers rather than toll free or weird area codes. Political parties are becoming as persistent. I just hang up and don't talk. I guess this is the price of being retired and answering the phone during the day. LOL
The spoofed local phone numbers make it all pretty annoying. There is no point in blocking the phone number because it was simply picked at random and will never be used again. At this point, I just let the landline go to the answering machine - if it is a legit call, they will likely leave a message.
I did get a phone call about a week ago from an extremely irate man who demanded to know why I had called him and then hung up - I tried to explain that I had not actually called him and he refused to believe me, because my number was on his Caller ID. He refused to believe that spammers could spoof phone numbers and threatened me with legal action. I did eventually just hang up on him, lol....
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I put this in retirement because most of these scam calls were targeted towards older Americans. It looks like the Indian phone operators posing as Microsoft tech support, Medicare specialist, or other phony titles are finally being arraigned by the authorities. Has anyone had calls from these people?
Probably, but I block all calls not in my contacts or from my current phone exchange (doctors etc.). They can leave a message (great to catch real calls) but most scammers don't leave a message. A few do with a telephone number to call back and I report them to the FTC giving them the call back number as the number calling is probably faked. At one point I had over 20 calls one day blocked, it has since dwindled down to about 5 or 6. For some reason they don't do weekends.
When I had a home phone I would get lots of calls from collection agency (supposedly). If they were real they were annoying looking for someone with the same last name. I hate to tell these idiot people but not everyone with the name "Smith"* is related. They are also idiotic in that you tell them no one here by that name and they interpret it as they aren't there right now or they give up and sell the debt to another collector and it's back to the same runaround. I ended up calling the better business bureau and the calls stopped. I signed up for Nomorobo on my home phone and that got most of the spammer calls plus the robo political calls. Now with no home phone and a cell phone that isn't published or connected in anyway to my name I don't get these calls.
What is something new is that they are using local area code phone numbers rather than toll free or weird area codes. Political parties are becoming as persistent. I just hang up and don't talk. I guess this is the price of being retired and answering the phone during the day. LOL
Yes, and please don't call those local area code numbers because the calls were spoofed and either the number doesn't exist or you might get some poor old confused lady (or my husband who had to bring the phone to me so I could explain that the caller spoofed our number).
Got a few calls 2 summers ago. Some IRS scam and I'd be arrested by the next morning. But if I sent money gram payment. I'd be spared. Gotta laugh at them and honestly can't understand why so many are gullible and allow themselves to get scammed in the first place. Just gotta use your brain and do your own research is all.
I got a call like that from and Indian guy a couple years ago, microsoft....wanting me to give over control of computer.
I strung them along as if I were trying to help but was inept.
About 15 minutes in they got frustrated and asked if there was anyone there that could help me follow thier instructions and that's when I said, "Yeah, your mom is right here under my desk".
A torrent of broken english swear words erupted but I was laughing so hard I thought I might have a heart attack.
Got a few calls 2 summers ago. Some IRS scam and I'd be arrested by the next morning. But if I sent money gram payment. I'd be spared. Gotta laugh at them and honestly can't understand why so many are gullible and allow themselves to get scammed in the first place. Just gotta use your brain and do your own research is all.
They're mostly fishing for elderly people with mental impairment like alzheimers, dementia etc.
My friend works with special needs adults and it would turn your stomach to know what kind of scum will find them on facebook and try to con them, rob them, coerce them for sex etc.
I put this in retirement because most of these scam calls were targeted towards older Americans. It looks like the Indian phone operators posing as Microsoft tech support, Medicare specialist, or other phony titles are finally being arraigned by the authorities. Has anyone had calls from these people?
Many years ago I was taken in by Microsoft Tech Support scammers who I allowed into my PC by activating my remote access setting. I realized afterward what I had done and took steps to sweep my computer clean and used my screen keyboard for a time to prevent key-logging hacks. I closed my bank accounts and credit cards and got new ones. I changed my on-line banking codes and warned the bank about possible fraud against me.
For the past 3 years or so robo CRA (same as IRA) impostors have been calling seniors about their delinquent tax payments and that if the caller did not receive a sum of blah blah a police officer will be dispatched to the seniors home to arrest them.
For years we have been getting robo calls about getting a better credit card rate of interest. It is a scam and the calls are never-ending.
Report to authorities when you get such calls. There is a federal website that you can report the phone numbers and scam details. Do this before you call police non-emergency phone line.
I usually say immediately to them " This is a fraud call, if you call this number again i have it and the number recorded and will turn it over to the local police, the state police and the FBI IF you call this number again ".
I never hear from them again.
Been a long while since i have had one.
The thing is since im looking for a job, i often answer unknown numbers expecting a job call.
Goid riddance and arrest them all, i say!
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