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Old 05-25-2017, 03:41 PM
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Yet another phone scam

Another phone scam: Phone rings, you say "hello" and then you hear a recorded person saying your name (which they must get from some database), (in my case) "Robert?" and I suspect they expect you to say "yes", which they'd record and claim you said it to authorize some purchase. I said "banana" and it hung up.
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Old 05-25-2017, 05:01 PM
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Old 05-25-2017, 05:02 PM
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that might have been the secret WORD

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Old 05-25-2017, 05:53 PM
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My usual response (if I even pick up a call from a number I don't recognize) is either: Who is calling? or Are you a person or computer?.

I've done the second quite often, and never had a person answer the question...

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Old 05-25-2017, 06:42 PM
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If one manages to get through NoMoRobo and asks if this is me, I respond by saying "May I say who's calling?" They will almost always hang up. Been doing it that way for years. Rare these days with the NoMoRobo .

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Old 05-25-2017, 07:29 PM
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I got the same robocall today. A man's voice calls me by name--and it's impossible to tell if it's a recording or a live person--and I say very properly "this is he" and CLICK they hang up. A while back I got a very realistic woman's voice that actually got me to say "yes" once and I haven't gotten a truckload of Lee Press-on Nails or anything I didn't order--yet.

I got so mad about being tricked, I said NO the next time and she apologized--also a recording. I got it again the next week and just hung up or left it off the hook, so the apology meant nothing. I had a friend who said Time Warner Cable when called by a telemarketer and they apoligized and said they'd take the number off their list. I tried that a few times with no results and now they're Spectrum and that's harder to say, so I quit.

So how do they get unlisted numbers and people's cell phone numbers? My friend's home phone number was unlisted. I assume they try every number possible in every area code and if they get an answer, they put it on a list.
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Old 05-25-2017, 09:00 PM
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I betcha I could stop all these robocalls Toot Sweet- & have a little fun outta the deal, to boot. The gummint can't tell me they don't know where they're coming from. This is the same bunch of shysters who can tell if the last time you hit the head, whether it was #1 or #2, Just get a list of all the numbers , what area codes they're from, & tell 'em ALL American aid just ended. We MIGHT think of turning it back on IF they hand 'em over to us for trial & summary execution. Too tough, you say ? And Unca Sandy, we know you couldn't shoot some guy just for annoying fone calls. Wanna bet, Skeezix ?!? Hide in the damn bushes & WATCH me..
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Old 05-26-2017, 08:19 AM
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Back 12 yrs ago I kept getting calls for Franklin so&so.
Seems my new # was a reissue & this cat owed them $$$.
Tried to tell them I wasnt him but no joy.
Finally they called & I told them I knew him from a bar in Greenville.
Offered to collect the debt for 33% , didnt work.
Told them if it was enuf $$ I would break his f'n legs & slam his
right hand in a car door.
The calls stopped.

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Old 05-26-2017, 12:08 PM
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I say Whos This. I get these calls all the time.The No Call list is a joke.
When I hear the bloop or a few second delay before the person or recording starts .I usually just hang up or I cant help you today..

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Old 05-26-2017, 12:22 PM
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NoMoRobo just now blocked another one. A Google search shows it's a new number with lots of complaints since May 23. Some of the folks commenting about it say it's another IRS scam. IDs as "Coalition" with a 760 area code.

If I get more than 3 calls from one of these, I permanently block it with AT&T's number blocking feature (#61 blocks the last number called). Never hear even 1 ring from that number again. AT&T was a little slow getting this feature fully implemented. They just expanded it from 20 to 100 number blocking capability and added the #61 block feature, included with AT&T's VOIP home phone. I think Verizon and others have had an effective number blocking feature longer.

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Old 05-26-2017, 02:12 PM
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The ones I LOVE are the ones who steadfastly go on & on about it being a "Victimless" crime, it's "Free" speech, so we can't do anything about it. Yeah. A couple of years back, this one dude was just hanging up the phone, where he was sending the "Polices Officers" to arrest me 'cause I owed 'em money from the 2008 Tax bill. I knew it was, of course, BS of the highest order, but I wasn't busy, & I went out to the "Polices" station to see if I was fixing to get tossed in the lowest bowels of the klink.. I know most of the sheriffs & deputies anyhow, This one lady deputy just rolled her eyes & shook her head. She allowed how they get elderly people in all the time scared to death that they REALLY are in massive amounts of trouble. They always tell the victims to just hang up, & don't worry, but quite a few of the really "Backwoods" types still think they are. At the very least, these spoof numbers, being unable to RETURN the call should be stopped. As it is now, the scammers have ALL the wonderful technology on THEIR side, us poor dumb Crackers have nothing.
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Old 05-26-2017, 02:37 PM
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... the scammers have ALL the wonderful technology on THEIR side, us poor dumb Crackers have nothing.
I reckon you did not read my post about NoMoRobo and the phone company's number blocking, up to 100 numbers. Technology I didn't have to fight these B'sturds 2 years ago. Cuts them off quite well.
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Old 05-26-2017, 03:57 PM
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Thanks for the Nomorobo info.I'll check them out.Now I wish there was one for junk snail mail.
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Old 05-26-2017, 10:16 PM
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So I suppose you've read by now the newest wrinkle... the RSCC (*SenateCampaignCommittee) has signed on to a request to be able to place no-ring voicemail messages in your cellphone voicemail. As in, you don't even here it's coming in, or have a chance to stop it -- it just shows up on your voicemail. They're not the only ones wanting to do it, but they're the only ones who have both the means to make the ruling adjustment as well as reap the potential benefit. Showed up on Google news feed the other day, so both 'sides' of the story should be findable.

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