These scammers have honed in on me during the past week. It started with one call where some foreign guy tried to convince me he was with the Medicare “Pain Department”. I told him to never call my number again. They then began calling my number once or twice each day, each time from a similar, but different, number. You could tell they were using call spoofing. I reported it, and I just let the calls go to voicemail. It looks like they are starting to give up now.
I get the robocall on the Medicare pain scam about once a week. I leave the ringer off on my phone and do not pick it up unless the caller ID is someone I know. And of course I have to be sitting next to the phone at that moment which I am not most of the time. But it’s interesting that some of these robocalls stay on so long that you end up with voicemails from them.
As long as the government does no more than assess fines against the robocallers that it catches, there is no incentive to stop. Simply a cost of doing business. There must be criminal penalties such as time in the pokey. Meeting new boyfriends who PIA will stick in the memory much more.