Posted on 08/08/2017 10:50:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
One time I got a call from “the IRS” stating that I had a tax debt which needed to be settled or I could face prosecution.
I said to the guy, who had a Caribbean accent:
“Well sir, I work for the Dept. of the Treasury Inspector General’s Office and, coincidentally, I’m investigating scam artists who claim they’re with the IRS. Could I have your name please?
Click.
That was funny. Kept that guy going for 39 minutes.
I act crazy with nonsensical stuff.
Like
Did you steal the chickens from my backyard. Or just any crazy thing in a grouchy old lady voice
It works. Problem is most I get now a days are the robocalls and it doesn’t work for auto stuff.
How did Caller ID work before the explosion of mobile phones? The tech has been around for quite a while. Early-on, the number was reported by the central switching, not the particular device.
But that brings up another question about your reply - why would existing phones have to be replaced? Some form of authentication of the data being received by the system would not be that difficult to implement.
I once got a call where they had spoofed my entire number and my name.
My phone answering machine reads & speaks the caller ID info on incoming calls. One day it said an incoming call was coming from me at my number, at the number being called.
One way they do it is using VOIP (voice over internet protocol) type of calls, because those than know how to use VOIP can spoof their caller iD infor. For calls from cell phones there is even an app called spoof card that anyone can put on their cell phone to spoof their caller ID info.
You would think the U.S. government would require the telecoms and cable outfits and makers and users of the telecom routing equipment to establish protocols that make spoofing impossible. No? No. Why? The government is using spoofing itself and doesn’t what their ability to do it eliminated.
I got those :)
I dont answer my phone for anyone.
If it’s important, they’ll leave a message :)
That doesn’t help much when the vast majority of these calls are robots calls without a human on the other end to field such a response.
My T-Mobile account tells me if the call is suspected spam.
It hasn’t been wrong yet.
If I don’t know the number, I don’t answer. You’d think after a while they’d give up but they don’t.
FALSE
These scammers are generating their own, fake, caller ID data. I've even received them from numbers I DO know - because they use automated computer dialing that auto-generates blocks of numbers to use for callerID -
These companies don't and won't spend the $$$ to even buy numbers. They just fake them.
I’ve had my own number show up on caller I.D.
I currently have 167 blocked numbers.
That’s the one I have. Works great
I got a call last Friday from India? Caller id showed as “Invalid number” “Is this Mr Mark”? I had the time so he spent about 1 minute of him asking if I have hip pain or knee pain( knee replacement ALMOST all free). I kept him going and finally he wanted my medical insurance policy number. I told him I would get my card from my file cabinet. He said “okay”. I set the phone down and after close to 25 minutes, he said “Hello?” a few times and hung up. This time wasted kept him from calling a few others.
Well, he called again on Monday and Tuesday and I held him on some more. Finally he called on Wednesday to see if I found that card. My wife answered and screamed at him, stating “This is a hospice house full of dying patients”. That did the trick.
This could be fixed by FCC regulation: Faked phone numbers not allowed, telcomms to be held responsible.
My wife drives me crazy in this regard. Whenever she has a missed call on her phone (happens a lot because she usually can't find her phone) she goes crazy trying to figure out who it was... even if its from some state we've never set foot in much less know anyone in. I keep saying if it's important, they'll leave a message... but she always wants to call back anyway.
Almost every day with one of our nearby cities and the first six digits are the same. I “block caller” and I’ve seen the same number come back. Now, as soon as you say “hello” there is a programmed message so I can’t say I’m on the donotcall list.
Exactly. My landline (which I use for business) is awash in robo-calls. A lot of them are about medicare for my wife. She passed away 3 years ago. They haven't discovered my cell # yet but i suppose it's just a matter of time.
If you’re not on my contact list the call is not accepted and dumped.
I type the number into Google and it will pull up a website where people will say who it was, in most cases it will just be a robocall.
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