your choice.
i would just block the number and get on with life
Simple
Search the number on the internet and read to your hearts content.
Amazing what you’ll find.
I’ve taken to pressing one on all of them when I’m in the mood and just messing with them and wasting their time.
It’s invariably Indians, presumably in India.
You can heard the others in the background.
One time the idiot opened the line and said nothing, I didn’t either and the line stayed open for 5-6 minutes, I listened in.
They think we’re all stupid.
I have a small marine fog horn that I use when they answer:-)
I NEVER answer a call from a number that isn’t on my phone list. NEVER. If it’s legit they can leave me a message and I’ll decide whether I want to speak with them.
In fact, everyone I do not wish to speak with is listed on my phone as XXXXXXX
I just let XXXXXX ring.
It doesn’t matter if you block the number. These kinds of calls come from digital dialers using Voice over Internet Protocols. They can literally insert whatever “dial from” number they want. It hits the public switch, gets tagged with a name, and voila—you are getting a call from the house next door.”
This is a much bigger problem than a lot of engineers want to talk about because there is basically no way of stopping it—short of blocking “India.”
I simply stopped answering my phone. I have voice mails emailed to me, then I call people back or just text them.
I occasionally get calls that have no one on the other end. I have concluded that those are robo calls designed to determine whether particular phone numbers are answered by ‘real’ people or not. If so, the number gets sold to advertisers/scammers for premium prices.
Most times, I do not answer any call unless I know who is calling. I only have Tracfone and use their CallDetector app. The app works pretty good to signal who might be calling.
Pressing one will connect you to someone in the third world who will ask for some form of personal identification. It is a scam.
https://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-300-8009
Always look the number up online by typing something like “800-300-8009 Scam”
Many times it will prove to be a scam-
Given what you know about Amazon, what makes you think anyone from there would EVER call someone over the phone??? Lol.
Why would Amazon call? “talk to an Amazon rep?” What kind of rep? I would not answer or reply.
all you have to do for any questionable number, is search for it on the internet; example:
https://www.google.com/search?q=800-300-8009
> I don’t think I can reveal too much of anything just by pressing ‘1’. <
You’ll be revealing a lot. You’ll be telling them that your phone was answered by a live person. And that would probably put you on even more scammer lists. Same goes when they say “press 5 (or whatever) to be removed from our calling list”.
It’s best to just hang up. Or you could just talk to them in an obscure foreign language. That’s what I do.