These are phone bank callers who are routing the calls through the internet so they give false caller ID #s in order to hide and harass people for services and money.
They’re scam artists working out of boiler room operations, many of which are offshore. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the do not call list, they have worked an illegal way around that and they stay anonymous. They’re very, very persistent. They put your number into a robocall system and the calls go out automatically. The operator is not doing any of the dialing and they only come on if you answer with a voice, not a voice mail recording. It’s a heck of a racket preying on people who don’t know better. They have a million different schemes.
Until something is done on a national level to stop them, all we can do is hang up and ignore them.
I started asking them if they were US citizens, and that gets a lot to hang up, and if they said yes, I would say, “are you here legally? Because you don’t have to work in a fraudulent business, you can go out and get a real job.” I also ask, “are you being held against your will and being forced to make these calls? Do you need help?” Boy, they hang up fast and it has done away with a good number of those.
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