I get these maybe three times a day. Time to call the AG.
I never answer the phone unless I recognize the number.
I recall back in the early 90s they would ask ‘do you have long distance’ and when you said yes they would somehow sign you up for extra fees. I think it was a company called ‘long distance’ or something.
Freegards
I always let people leave a message unless I recognize the caller ID as someone I inow.
It’s a simple solution that works.
I got one of these calls...and kept saying “no, I can’t hear you...can you hear me”
Over and over....
Bkmrk.
They can bill me all they want (blood from a stone).
If you’re feeling puckish and get a perverse thrill from scam-baiting (as I occasionally do when I have the time), you can just answer: “No.”
Then the conversation goes like this:
“Can you hear me?”
“No.”
“OK. Can you hear me now?”
“No, I still can’t hear you.”
“How about now?”
“No, I can’t hear you now either.”
“How about now?”
“Why do you keep asking me if I can hear you, when I’m obviously responding to your questions? Are you stupid?”
And so on.
“...later bill you for products or services...”
How do they do that if you don’t give them any CC data?
I did answer one last week (looked close to a local # - was spoofed)
First statement out of them Can you hear me
me WHAT (stock answer) - who is this
mentioned a resort or something and I started with
‘I told you Mf’ers to never call this F’n number again, you MF’er....I am tired of asking you nicely...then I got verbally abusive.’
My phone hasn’t rung since and I had been getting 3 or 4 non answered calls a day.....
President Clinton signed into law a bill that gave the word “yes” the authority of a signature, when given over the phone for sales (and I think maybe some contracts).
This is someone using that law fraudulently.
We don’t answer the house phone (which has a voice caller ID feature, “call from.....”) unless we recognize and want to talk to the caller.
Try this treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKtS-k12b0
I cannot believe they advised people to call 911 regarding this.
Bad advice.
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Identify theft, mortgage scams, credit-card phishing, etc... is the unavailable result of the way our monetary system is organized.
We have a printed, fiat currency, and a highly financialized economy based on issuing and trading DEBT. More and more debt must be produced to produce any growth in the economy.
Therefore, debt is commodity, which must be pushed into all corners of society. Therefore, we must make taking debt ever-easier to obtain.
And because those debt-delivery channels are now everywhere, the opportunity for scammers is to ride-along.
Snopes: unproven
http://www.snopes.com/can-you-hear-me-scam/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
Regardless, as others have stated, I make it a habit to not answer calls I don’t recognize.
Or - if I do answer and hear dead silence (indicating a robo-call is connecting me to a “person”) - I’ll immediately hang up...
I just got a call like that from a +800 number.
+800 9693588
From XT
I blocked them.
We have an Answering Machine and most of these scams never leave a message ,well you can hear the computer on their side disconnect
there are a lot of these scammers operating by robocalls with differnent seemingly harmless messages that would require a “yes”
I found out about a company that has a free app to download to your landline or mobile phone that blocks most robocalls. It’s called NOMORobo and is supported by most/many phone companies. https://www.nomorobo.com/
Easy. A simple, one-time setup activates Nomorobo on your current phone line. ... ...propose[d] some high-tech strategies to finally stop automated sales calls. it’s doing a good job for me and you should check it out.