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.
I guess eventually I’ll get caught when a Hungarian scammer calls me. But until then, I’ve got the upper hand.
Ha! I don’t know any languages other than rudimentary Latin.
My wife just retired from CVS.
They are ridiculously short-staffed—zero chance they would be calling anybody asking for information.
Never, ever give anybody personal data!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............
I just refuse to discuss personal information of any kind with a random caller.
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$.
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.
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.
I don’t answer my phone.
Yup. Even if you get "call" from a company you know, say "thank you" and then call back on the company's corporate number.
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.
CVS only ever gives me texts.
And info updates would happen when you next visit in person.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’d give a made up name, DOB, SSN, Address, etc...
“Parlez Vous Francais?”
No?
Then I’ll give it to you in english...
&^%&%# you.
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.
> 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.
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