Also, if you hear: “This is the IRS” :)
I’d say “No!”
April Fools was yesterday.
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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.
8 words, but hang up immediately if you hear them.
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.
“Why haven’t you called?”
If it's that important, they can leave a message.
Or if they’ve done something other than random dialing, “Is this (your name)” fishing for a yes.
Most appropriate answer is “Who is this?” but “Speaking” also works.
Also, “This is so and so on a recorded line.”
We get them at our office here and it is usually getting a discount rate on credit card interest. On one occasion, I played along just to see what they would do and I gave them a name “Bob Jones” (not my real one, of course) and the person at the end said “F$%k you Bob Jones” and hung up. A couple of days later, the same scam called me again and I used the same name and then he asked for my credit card number, so I gave 123 456 789 and then they hung up.
Apple i phone setting:
“Silence Unknown Callers” For me it’s ON
Routes any calls not in your contacts list to your voicemail. If they want to leave a message fine, else finer.
i’ve had a bunch of these “can you hear me” calls.
I learned to ask “Who wants to know?”
THEY hang up.
Got “the Grandma Call” 2 days in a row....male Hispanic 1st day, FEMALE Hispanic 2nd day.
I F U’d them until THEY hung up.
A couple of days later, I got a call from an obviously Hindu voice. Don’t remember the ‘company’.
I told him F U & hung up....
He actually CALLED ME BACK & ranted on & on about “WHO do I THINK I AM to tell HIM F U?
Most of the time I will not answer an unknown call. When I feel like playing with a caller from an unknown number I will only answer in Chinese. It really confuses the other side if it’s a live person. Robo-calls just get hung up on. I’m not creative enough to make up my own language but I know people that do.
I’d support a narrowly written planetary death penalty for phone scammers. It would also solve India’s overpopulation problem.