Anybody else ever receive this type of call?
I know that if you get a call with a simple yes or no answer (Is your name Responsibility 2nd?) and you answer yes, then you're screwed.
But I've not heard of entering a 1 or a 2 will also screw you over. But who knows?
Be Careful with that Phone!
Already had it. It was about my Amazon Prime account. I don’t have an Amazon Prime account, so I hung up.
I have received a call like that. I hung up immediately.
The most important question is “Did my $700 charge to your Amazon account go through?” I’m hoping the stuff gets delivered today.
Leave a message or get blocked.
I’ve had a couple of those calls - one a couple of months ago, the other about a week ago. I check my account for unauthorized activity (there wasn’t), but otherwise ignore it.
Get those type of calls all the time. The amount charged is usually $799.95. (I don’t have an Amazon account!)
I don’t answer ANY call from a number I don’t recognize. My day is too busy to talk about my car’s extended warranty.
I miss the good ole days of “Is your refrigerator running?”.
We’ve had that call a few times. We just ignore it. My daughter-in-law’ mother got sucked in stayed on the phone with them for 30 minutes. She gave them a bundle of info.
Hitting 1 connects you with a person you can barely understand who will want your Amazon info
I receive these calls on my land line that is never used, one day I got 15 calls, answered once heard the recording and hung up. I get car warranty calls on my cell all the time I just block them.
No name on screen, I don’t answer. They can leave a voice mail and I check it right away.
I get a voicemail sometimes that sounds like it starts in the middle of a message and says “or press 5 to be removed from our list.”
I hang up.
Don’t pick up the phone if you don’t know who is on the other end.
If it is important, they will leave a voicemail.
I had a live call from a guy saying he was from a collection agency and demanding money, just shy of $400 bucks, for “blood work” that was done in 2019. The dates were very close to time I had actually had surgery, so I wonder were he got his information. I told him I would pay any legitimate charges but would have to investigate. A quick internet search showed that the calling number was flagged as a scam. The other thing is that the actual “blood work” I had was relatively cheap (around $25 bucks) and mostly covered by insurance.
We get that one a lot and also the one from “Apple” about our Apple account. We don’t have an Apple account. Both just go to voicemail.
I don’t answer unknown numbers.
okay...get this straight. ALL recorded phone calls, the ones that automatically dial your number, are a scam. The computer just dials each number in sequence. It HAS to be a scam because your number is being called at random!
"As far as we know, phone companies, utilities, and credit card issuers don’t maintain databases of voice recordings of their customers and use them to perform real-time audio matching to verify identities during customer service calls."
I have been getting them for quite a while.
It is fairly common. Search youtube for ‘kitboga’ or ‘jim browning’ or ‘pierogi scammer payback’ or ‘music is a rainbow’ or myriad others and you will hear people yanking them around and tracking them.
I usually at least type ‘1’ or whatever i need to get a human. The robocall costs them nothing but i at least want them to incur the cost of getting a human to answer. If I don’t have time to talk I put it on mute. If I do I waste their time or ask them pointed questions.
We haven’t had the call, but our Amazon account has been hacked, and we learned it when we got emails confirming our orders that we didn’t place. We never got charged because Amazon’s system flagged the order as something not typical for us and probably a scam.
We opted for their two-step verification system for extra protection and it hasn’t happened again.