It's what shows up as a location, I guess.
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Posted on 02/06/2017 9:10:58 AM PST by oh8eleven
NORFOLK, Va. – 'Can you hear me?' It is a simple question, but police say answering it could make you the victim of a scam.
After the introduction comes the question, "Can you hear me?"
“All of us, our natural response is to say, 'Yes,' or 'Sure,' or 'Yes I can,'” said Hughes, but she says this is exactly what you do not want to do.
Police say scammers record your ‘yes’ response. In one variation of the scam documented by the Better Business Bureau in October, 2016, the criminals may pretend to be from a cruise line or home security company and will later bill you for products or services you never asked for.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnep.com ...
I get 2-3 non recognized calls a day on my cell. Never answer them and if they don’t leave a message block them. They just keep coming.
The nuttiest when it comes to a compulsion to answer every call are the over 65 folks.
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Back in “the day”, before telemarketers, when the phone rang it was important or an emergency. I have one parent mid-90’s & it was especially true back then. Old habits are hard to break. That generation is also mostly too polite to abruptly hang up on someone. With my elderly parent, he can’t get off the phone & in one instance, the next thing we knew, some person he’d been talking to showed up at the door wanting to come in & see all of his stock certificates (ostensibly selling financial services).
We now have THIS: http://digitone.com/Digitone%20Call%20Blocker.htm
Best $100 I personally have ever spent. We reversed the factory setting - instead of accepting all calls & you block the ones you don’t want, we block all calls & program it to accept only certain calls. We were getting calls from all over the country and all different numbers so we just blocked everything. Family is on VIP status, local area code (doctors, friends, church) is enabled & we block anything problematic that turns up in the local area code (right now, the hot scam is folks trying to sell extended car warranties for vehicles no longer owned). Most of the bad ones are from out of state.
Yep. My mother would kill herself getting to the phone, rather than checking to see if she recognize the number, or let it go to VM.
Took years of all of us kids explaining to her about scams, if it's important they'll leave a message, etc.
I programmed one of her phones to ring differently for some of her favorite callers, so she doesn't have to move for the scammers.
Dad, OTOH, unless he's expecting a call, he couldn't care less.
I just got a call like that from a +800 number.
+800 9693588
From XT
I blocked them.
“Like what are they going to do - take you to court? “
No, but some of these clowns exact revenge by reporting you to the credit reporting agencies and an item shows up as a non-payemnt or late payment on your report.
We have an Answering Machine and most of these scams never leave a message ,well you can hear the computer on their side disconnect
there are a lot of these scammers operating by robocalls with differnent seemingly harmless messages that would require a “yes”
I found out about a company that has a free app to download to your landline or mobile phone that blocks most robocalls. It’s called NOMORobo and is supported by most/many phone companies. https://www.nomorobo.com/
Easy. A simple, one-time setup activates Nomorobo on your current phone line. ... ...propose[d] some high-tech strategies to finally stop automated sales calls. it’s doing a good job for me and you should check it out.
Yes. My mom has Alzheimer’s and we have a landline phone in the house only for emergencies. No one we know has that number. When it rings it is telemarketers or surveys. But she thinks we
Should run to answer it because it might be important. Generational thing. She still insists on reading the paper each morning as
If it weren’t full Of anti trump lying propaganda.
Exactly, then I WILL start ordering all kinds of crap from them with no intention of paying
Thanks for the clarification.
Freegards
Who or what is XT?
Thx - will do.
You are right at that, blocking just slows them down.
The IRS is going to arrest me.
My computer has a problem and I need to grant remote permission.
I can save money on my credit card transfer.
The police ball needs donations.
I may qualify for a free pain relieving knee brace.
A free trip to Vegas.
A free cruise.
There’s more of course.
I got the exact same call last weekend.
ILD Teleservices
Unfortunately these @$$#@*(@#)&(# are still around scamming people. Unfortunately Verizon is in on the scam with them, so if you use Verizon, they will eventually get you. Hopefully somewhere along the lines Trump/Sessions will get these @$$#@*(@#)&s.
If challenged, they play a recording of your yes spliced into their question about OKing the charges.
And a verbal OK stands-up in court? Wow.
It's what shows up as a location, I guess.
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