RE emails - I don't even use Paypal. These are just from TODAY. 
Posted on 10/16/2024 9:43:46 AM PDT by Leaning Right
> Then for the CVS customers, it seems real.....if you don’t have scam training. <
Right. And it really bothers me that the government has done nothing much to warn folks (especially seniors) about these scams. At a minimum, warning notices should be put in Social Security mailings. Short ads on TV wouldn’t hurt either.
That won’t save every victim. But maybe one senior will understand what’s going on, and share it with friends.
My VM/call slipped through the Verizon potential spam notification...
Give them completely fictious info!
Yep, my wife got a new apple phone recently so thought it could be a real call, until I reminded her we didn’t buy an ipad and we didn’t buy it thru amazon.
The probably get alot of people who fall for it. Phone and computer scams are epidemic, we really need a “whole of goverment” :) approach to top it.
From what I can tell, it goes in cycles. Just when you think all is clear, text messages and VM's start up again. The phone company is playing whack a mole. The scammers are preying on the elderly and dumb people..
I get them all.
Ignore, block, delete.
Emails, phone calls and texts...all can be blocked.
Never respond.
Believe it or not!!!!...
Indians can call you from a foreign number and say “can you hear me now?!” and if you say YES, you can get charged for overseas calls!
I hate those ...jerks.
We should give the Indian government half a year to crack down on it or lob a missile at the first building we locate housing them in India.
Maybe too extreme
There is enough people out there that fall for the scams to make it worth while for scammers to keep trying.
Short staffed and talking about letting 3,000 go nationwide. Heck, you have to search to find an employee who isn’t a pharmacist or technician to check you out now.
Good post yours. Saying “yes” can also give scammers your recorded voice, to be used to agree to something you never did.
I’m getting older. To remind me of that “yes” problem, I actually have a “yes” with a red line through it on a notecard next to my phone.
And I don’t think your missile suggestion is too extreme. If anything, you’re being generous by giving them half a year’s grace. 🙂
They are destroying our oldest and most vulnerable’s citizens’ lives. You’re right. A missile is fine.
And honestly? I didn’t reply to the “can you hear me?” out of laziness :)
I had no idea it was a scam.
I just like to call the numbers I get in email and leave the phone down to waste their time.
But they called me back at a REAL foreign number and tried the “can you hear me?” thing.
Then laziness kicked in :)
And I never thought about them recording it!
It’s smart to keep notes.
I’m not the 33 year old I was when I joined. I’m 56 and no old but not quite young! And I forget things I would have never before.
Have a great day my friend!
We’d have contests at work a times to see how long we could keep a scammer engaged on a call. I’d give everyone a break and we’d get in the conference room and put the scammer on speaker and go at it. A true morale and team building thing. We’d pretend to be hard of hearing. We’d give them info we’d make up. Some of the staff would turn blue trying not to laugh. We had test accounts for all the credit card companies and banks, and give them those when they got around to ask. We had a few virtual machines we’d sometimes use to log into whatever they wanted us to. The longest we kept someone on was just short of 20 minutes. But he went off with a tirade of cussing like you have never heard once he realized we were screwing with him. A few we’d get via email and they gave a number to call. We conferenced two different scammers on the same call That got interesting.
EVO X wrote: “The phone company is playing whack a mole. The scammers are preying on the elderly and dumb people..”
The phone companies are limited by law in what they can do. They are required to ensure that calls are completed.
When one gets a notification that a call is potential spam on their smart device, I would assume the phone company is looking into preventing further calls from the spamming source via legal methods.
GEEE- I FEEL LEFT OUT—
I ONLY GET THE “GRANDMA, I AM IN JAIL & I NEED BAIL $$$” CALLS AND the “WE WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE” CALLS.
“GRANDMA” calls are young sounding -—very Hispanic sounding-—
The SELL HOUSE CALLS are never from anyone who has ENGLISH as their first language. One guy ARGUED WITH ME THAT my 5+++ acres was vacant——This property was developed in 2004-2005.
HOUSE/well/septic/power/garage/EXTENSIVE FENCING.
I told him I wanted 90 day escrow-—ONE PAYMENT AT BEGINNING OF ESCROW-—CASH ONLY-—$ ONE MILLION PLUS ANY CAPITAL GAINS TAXES...
THEN-—THEY HANG UP !!!
When I get a scam call, I pronounce verbal abuse on the scammer’s entire family tree in a random mixture of English, French, German, Latin, and Spanish ...
LOL...another Hungarian speaker? Welcome to the small club on FR!
I always speak Hungarian to spammers, when I bother to say anything, before hanging up.
LOL...that makes THREE of us using nem tudom on scammers; too funny!
EVO X wrote: “When one gets a notification that a call is potential spam on their smart device, I would assume the phone company is looking into preventing further calls from the spamming source via legal methods.”
In that case, it’s up to you whether to take the call or not. The phone company hasn’t taken any action to prevent further calls.
Just imagine the uproar here on FR if it became known that the phone company could block your calls without your permission.
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