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A scam alert (vanity)
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Posted on 10/16/2024 9:43:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right

I recently received a call from CVS pharmacy. The caller wanted to update my information (full name, date of birth, etc.).

Except that I have never once dealt with CVS pharmacy. And the caller had the typical Indian scammer accent. So I suppose they’re just calling random people, hoping to eventually reach an actual CVS customer.

Just a heads up, especially for your older (and often trusting) relatives.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cvs; scam; vanity
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I dealt with this scam call in my usual way. I know an Eastern European language (Hungarian), so I made small talk with the scammer in Hungarian. She hung up.

I guess eventually I’ll get caught when a Hungarian scammer calls me. But until then, I’ve got the upper hand.

1 posted on 10/16/2024 9:43:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Ha! I don’t know any languages other than rudimentary Latin.


2 posted on 10/16/2024 9:45:55 AM PDT by caver ( )
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To: Leaning Right

My wife just retired from CVS.

They are ridiculously short-staffed—zero chance they would be calling anybody asking for information.


3 posted on 10/16/2024 9:46:46 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Leaning Right

Never, ever give anybody personal data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............


4 posted on 10/16/2024 9:46:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Leaning Right

I just refuse to discuss personal information of any kind with a random caller.


5 posted on 10/16/2024 9:47:13 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: Leaning Right

Read some stats on these and other scams. They get a “score” about 1 to 2 out of a hundred calls. Does not sound like much, but it adds up to billion$.


6 posted on 10/16/2024 9:47:48 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: Leaning Right

As I learned to do from another poster here, I start asking scam callers inappropriate questions. (What are you wearing? Tell me about yourself. Are you alone? Do you ever have sex when you first meet someone. Where are you?

And making inappropriate comments (you sound sexy. I can tell we have a connection. I bet you smell good.)

It’s hilarious. I generally put it on speaker and others listen to me harass.


7 posted on 10/16/2024 9:48:15 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown in)
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To: Leaning Right

If you really want to piss-off an Indian/Paki scam caller, make a comment about their sister (not their mother)

Its like flipping a switch. You’ll get a streak of every English cuss-word they know.


8 posted on 10/16/2024 9:48:15 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Leaning Right

I don’t answer my phone.


9 posted on 10/16/2024 9:48:27 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Red Badger
Never, ever give anybody personal data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............

Yup. Even if you get "call" from a company you know, say "thank you" and then call back on the company's corporate number.

10 posted on 10/16/2024 9:49:13 AM PDT by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
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To: Leaning Right

You possibly did the worst thing to fend off scammers.

By answering, the scammer knows that your phone is active. They’ll continue to call that number and then sell your number to other scammers. Sooner or later you’ll inadvertently will give some type of information to the scammer.


11 posted on 10/16/2024 9:56:17 AM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Leaning Right

CVS only ever gives me texts.

And info updates would happen when you next visit in person.


12 posted on 10/16/2024 9:56:20 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Leaning Right

I sometimes tell them I need to find my medicare card or whatever based on what their scam is and put them on hold while I ‘go look for it.’ My record is 15 minutes 40 seconds of wasting their time on hold.


13 posted on 10/16/2024 9:57:44 AM PDT by posterchild
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Yeah, yesterday a Hispanic sounding person called telling me I had won millions of dollars. For real he said, no lie. And I hadn’t said anything except hello.

I hung up.

Guess I’ll remain poor.


14 posted on 10/16/2024 9:58:49 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: chrisinoc

I did have a phone number that went from 20 calls a day to 100 calls a day for that reason. I moved the old one to google voice and got a new number. Eventually the google voice number tapered off in calls. once in a while i’ll clean it out to see if any legitimate calls are there - that is when i’ll mess with them.


15 posted on 10/16/2024 9:59:42 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: Leaning Right

We switched from Comcast cable internet to AT&T fiber internet last summer. I closed out Comcast, returned the equipment and paid the final bill.

Now I’m getting lots of bogus reminders from Comcast to pay my bill. It’s so laughable. It’s just as you say — they send out tens of millions of those spams hoping to get a sucker who happens to be a Comcast customer to pay them. Their cost to send out those spams is close to zero.


16 posted on 10/16/2024 9:59:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (It should be illegal to be here illegally. It should be a crime to be committing crimes in the USA.)
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To: Leaning Right

I’d give a made up name, DOB, SSN, Address, etc...


17 posted on 10/16/2024 10:00:12 AM PDT by null and void (If the government won't protect the vote, the border, the citizens, then why have that government?)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

“Parlez Vous Francais?”
No?
Then I’ll give it to you in english...
&^%&%# you.


18 posted on 10/16/2024 10:02:06 AM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: chrisinoc

That’s not been my experience, but then, I don’t technically “answer” when I get a call from an unknown number. I will accept the call and not say anything. 49 times out of 50 it’s a call from an automated system that will eventually hang up. If they attempt to call again and I repeat the procedure, they decide it isn’t worth the time and stop calling. They really hate dead time on their calls. I started doing this mainly because I was getting 1-2 second voicemails that I was forced to call in and delete. My last spam call was over three months ago.


19 posted on 10/16/2024 10:02:57 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Red Badger

> Never, ever give anybody personal data! <

Good advice. And true for emails as well as phone calls. Scammer emails are getting quite sophisticated. They’re made to look just like emails from legitimate companies. Same format, same company logo, etc.


20 posted on 10/16/2024 10:05:10 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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