Posted on 04/02/2021 7:26:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Few people still pick up phone calls from unknown numbers, but if you do you need to listen closely to what the person on the other end says. If you receive a call and immediately hear the phrase “Can you hear me?,” hang up. The phrase is used to coax you into saying “yes,” a word that, if said in your voice, is as good as gold for con artists.
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Also, if you hear: “This is the IRS” :)
I’d say “No!”
April Fools was yesterday.
Im afraid to even reply to this thread
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j/k...sort of. :-)
I’ve actually had that happen to me twice.
The first time I answered the phone and it was very garbled. Out of the garble, a guy said, “can you hear me?”. Knowing what was going on, I said, “Peddle your scam somewhere else” and hung up.
The second time was a female and I just hung up.
Easy.
We screen our calls. If it’s not a number we recognize, they can leave a message. If it’s a 202 area code(DC) or a toll free number, I hit the green button to answer and immediately hit the red button to hang up.
I’ve heard this warning before.
They record your voice and then somehow use it to agree to stuff that you never agreed to.
It’s to rob you electronically.
“I read you loud and clear. Do you feel me?”
8 words, but hang up immediately if you hear them.
I do this as well. Screen all calls.
I'd give him my name (maybe Sherman T Potter or Nigel Tufnell or someone from Monty Python) and my address (either 1060 W. Addison in Chicago or 1313 Mockingbird Lane) and so on and so forth with lots of "I'm sorry can you say that again?"
There are YouTube channels featuring "scam the scammer" calls that go on for a LONG time. They're comedy gold. And justice in action.
I don’t pick up the phone unless it’s a known number. Everyone else can leave a message and I’ll get back to them, or not. We used to get between 6 and 10 cold calls a day. If you never answer the phone after a while the computers stop dialing your number. It takes a while but now we are down to an average of less than 1 a day.
> They record your voice and then somehow use it to agree to stuff that you never agreed to. <
Right. A lot of financial institutions use voice recognition now instead of passwords. So I suppose if a scammer had a decent recording of your voice he could cause a bit of mischief.
I got a call from a car warranty place a few years ago. The call said my warranty was about to expire. Just to mess with them I hit “1” to talk to an agent.
First question they asked me was what kind of car I had. I said I know what I have, what car are you calling about?
They seemed confused and I said your recording told me my warranty was about to expire so what car are you talking about?
This went on for about 5 minutes and they finally said your ‘92 Sunbird. I informed them the sunbird had been in the garage for 5 years and didn’t run but if they wanted to fix it it was ok by me.
They hung up.
“Why haven’t you called?”
If it's that important, they can leave a message.
I just say “No, I can not hear you” over and over until they get tired and go away.
Yes, sometimes I don’t enough to do. LOL
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