Everyone gets them. Spam calls that have been going on for years. Surprised you didn’t get them sooner.
I was getting them frequently until a few moths ago when I switched ISP’s.
I replied in Mandarin, they were shocked.
No but Sally from Pakistan calls telling me that my computer is infected with a virus.
I’ve gotten two or three voice mails that sound Chinese (or other far eastern language). I think it is garden variety spam. They only need a 1 in a million hit to make it worth their while.
no. no one hat has survived to talk about it.
Cantonese or Mandorin ?
Sometimes I do. I just hang up. The speaker is usually a female voice. It sounds like she’s reading some kind of sales script. I can usually hear other voices in the background.
It’s what I used to do for a living, but in English:
“Cold Calling”. Back in the 1980’s, I worked for Equitable Finance. I was trying to sell Mutual Funds. “We are having a Workshop in your area next week!”. I didn’t really like it.
I got one of those calls too. Very weird. And since they’re probably using some sort phone number scrambler, who knows where they’re actually calling from.
They spoke to me in Chinese only. I said “hello” in English. Then I started speaking in Hungarian. It was a true United Nations moment!
never heard of it and dont answer any # that I dont know. Voicemail on my cell isnt even set up to avoid these scam calls.
We got a few of those Chinese calls months ago - last summer and fall - but none recently, as far as I know.
Been getting them up here in Canada for a while. Not always but often it’s a local number.
Last year I got a call from a man with an Indian accent who said, “We have detected unusual activity on your Apple account.” I said, “I don’t have an Apple account.” He said, “What account DO you have?” I hung up.
They could be activation triggers for deep moles.
:-O
Yes, I am. Odd that someone thinks there are enough Chinese in the US to do that.
Got them last year; few or none this year.
Herro?
How yo fell wight gul?
How U rike colona vilus ?
Big giffee we make!
U need mask, gruffs, suntine spayshul rike river, rung, kiddinee tlansprant ?
What UR cledit cald numbah?
We tleatee U numba one!
I’ve been getting weird calls in Chinese for the past couple of months too.
Good opportunity to preach the gospel to them.
I’ve never had a call in Chinese. I usually don’t answer calls anyway If I don’t recognize the voice or number. But once in a while I will answer in Chinese and speak in Chinese till they hang up.
I’m not Chinese, but did study that fascinating language.