Posted on 12/07/2023 6:10:03 AM PST by Bearshouse
This is a subject that I wish got more attention. My late husband was a victim of a scam at a time when he was too ill to have this kind of stress. I’ve held a hard grudge since. That particular scam was different but the premise is the same. Hit the victim emotionally and get the money by any means..
Scammer Payback is one of my favorites, but there are several working on various platforms that do amazing work. I watch how they target these low life scum, using their computers and cameras against them, stealing their files, finding victim information and stopping theft in progress, confronting them and just generally wasting the bastards time.
Good point. There are so many layers that also need attention from international wire transfers to purchases of multiple gift cards, use of cashapp or paypal to transfer money to KNOWN scam accounts. Banks and retailers need to more responsible and aware.
Now that’s funny.
I was sitting here reading this and got two of these calls. One had no one there, and the other one got to “How are you today?”. I answered, like I always do, “Just peachy keen!” and they promptly hung up. I have found that 80% to 90% of them will hang up. I’m not real sure why. I did have one guy in very broken English ask me, “What does that mean?”. I explained it to him and he still didn’t get it.
I do try to have fun with them, especially the computer scammers. I’ve kept some on the line for 45 minutes. I figure if they’re trying to scam me, they aren’t going after someone else who might be more susceptible.
It would probably shock you how many people get scammed because they are greedy. Sweepstakes scams count on this.
The best thing you can do for gullible people is to set their phone to only answer numbers in their contacts. We had a Deputy come to our Kiwanis meeting to speak on scams and a member fell for one they mentioned a month later.
I answer a company phone where I can't ignore a call no matter how suspicious it looks and I've noticed a huge increase in these 1 or 2 ring calls and hang ups. I can only hope the scammers are being blocked or they are paranoid as hell.
I think there are some out there who just sell lists of verified numbers to scammers.
If you answer the phone they put you on the list.
Those people call me at least a dozen times a day even though I tell them I no where near retirement or medicare.
Finally, just turned my ringer off
what’s to ‘spoof’?
A few For-Next loops and you’ll have all the ‘numbers’ you could ever call.
gotta love Pirogi, but i never understood the hair...
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