I’ve been getting calls on my iPhone that appear to be a local cell phone number. I’ll block the number, then the next time they call, the last four digits of the number has changed. I’ll block that, and again the same thing, over and over. Yesterday I finally answered the damn thing, said Hello, and there was a dead line...no one answered back, and the line went dead. I hate these f***ers!
>> said Hello, and there was a dead line...no one answered back <<
Usually this outcome means the scammers have computers that are programmed to dial dozens (or hundreds?) of numbers simultaneously.
Then, whoever answers first — even by a micro-second — will have the “privilege” of talking to a live person.
On the other hand, if you pick up your phone just a tiny bit later, the computers will drop you — plus everybody else who had been called during the current “cycle” — while the live person at scammer HQ works his charm on the unlucky first answerer.
You mean it wasn’t ELIZABETH in a perky voice saying you had stayed at one of her companies resorts and they had a special rate for you? This bi8tch aggravates the hell out of me and my areas phones. They even spoofed the Commonwealth’s Attorneys office for our county.