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Watch out for scammer phone calls...
Watch out for people calling with unknown name and number, today I received the following scammer calls:
1 - A guy calls and says is "name here" I say speaking, so he says I have a payday loan, I say what payday loan, I never filed for one, he keeps yapping and then says, well we are serving you in a few days, I then yell and hang up, he calls back 2 minutes later and says he is calling to "help me" I said do not call me again. (he stop for today)
2 - A Con Edison (get money back third party scammer) asshole sales people, called and asked to speak blah blah, i said no thanks, and hang up, they call again i said no i dont want it (it was someone else) 30 minutes later another person called, I said do not call here again, they stop again (for today)
3 - a Indian man calls me saying that my windows computer is in danger, well after getting those scammer calls I say "which windows computer" and he keeps saying the windows computer you use, and i ask him to list the model and he is like repeating himself so I can hang up, he calls 2 minutes later again, I said "STOP CALLING ME" he said "But your windows computer is in DANGER!!!!" I said well your scammer company will be in danger if you call me again Do not call me again" and i hung up
WTF - this took place all within 3 hours - I really need to get unknown name and number blocked. Anyone else got calls like this?
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the windows one is popular. ppl being trolling them for years
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I don't give those calls a chance.
As soon as I know it's sales call, I just tell them I am not interested and hangup...nice and simple.
Where are they calling you? How did they get your phone number?
@rds100
They are calling my house phone, problem is i am not 100% sure how they got my number, I think i signed up to a vps host recently with my house number.. (99% of the time use my cell phone or google voice number for signing up to sites)
Are you in the US? Did you try www.donotcall.gov ? It works like a charm for house and cell phones.
You are in USA, right? Wasn't there some "do not call" list maintained by the FCC?
Wait... people still have home phones?
Very 1984 of you.
Easy way to stop this, read the caller id before answering..
Isn't the do-not-call list sold to local businesses? In Canada I know ours is, so putting your number on lists like that only makes problems much, much worse.
@alexh but if they call you, you can complain to the FCC and the marketer who called you gets fined? Or no?
Not even in The Netherlands you can do that. Well you can, but the fining part will only come after a lot of complaints.
I wish that were possible; There's seemingly no consequences for telemarketing here, especially as a local business. Our home phone gets roughly 3-5 telemarketing calls a day, and one each day around 4:30 PM that simply hangs up after ringing the maximum amount of times. If you answer this call, they phone back again until you stop answering.
Furthermore, called ID proves to be completely useless. Every number that phones us unsolicited is a "private number" so you can't find the corporation responsible or phone them back to ask them to stop. I get roughly 2 calls a week to my cell phone, too, from something claiming that I've won a cruise.
Basically it's something we need to learn to live with, unless you want to have a burner/pre-paid phone, which actually makes sense because:
This way, a phone number will never be associated with your real name or information, and it'll be much more difficult to find. Nobody is going to prosecute these people, just like nobody is going to prosecute the guy who walked up to my door and interrupted my dinner to rudely ask me if I've, "Heard the news!" (as a result of http://www.knocking.org/Jehovahs_Witness_History_Civil_Rights.html)
Happens a lot in the UK for me, my phone system blocks withheld and international numbers now.
I get the Microsoft ones all the time. I just tell them I only use Apple stuff
It's more fun to tell them you use BeOS.
Tell the Microsoft one you are Microsoft Certified Tech. They start backtracking them. I usually end with "You are a fraud and I'm hanging up to call the FBI" They don't call back on that number any more. The really annoying one for me in on my business line where I get constant calls to "Update my google maps listing" The press 9 to be removed from list apparently does nothing as I get this call 10+ times a day.
That's exactly what I do. I have a cheap pre-paid phone ($25 lasts a year) and I use that number for almost everything I do online.
Easiest way to get rid of them... Put computer speaker on max volume, put phone against speaker, play a random song and go outside for a few minutes.