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.
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.
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...
Nem tudom, mit akarsz
DO NOT ANSWER!!!!
You just gave the world your phone number!
YOU HAVE BEEN SCAMMED
DO NOT REPLY to any unknown emails or texts either!
I’ve set my phone to send any caller not in my contacts list to voicemail. A scammer won’t take the time to leave a message. A legitimate caller will. Contacts like my physician will ring through as normal.
I get phone calls and texts all the time. UPS can’t deliver my package because of address directions. Chase Bank needs to verify my info (I’ve never did business with them. I’ve won money and they just need some bank info to deposit it. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Simple Rule: If you did not initiate a call to a known number of a known entity, the never give out any information whatsoever. Not even to verify your name or anything else.
I bet he said his name was Mike Johnson or Jim Martin or some such.