I sometimes get 10 a day.?ÿ
Interesting article in Washington Post, about it.
Nate
What amazes me is that their success rate makes it worthwhile for them. How can even one person in a million go along with such calls and not just hang up? There is much publicity and discussion of the problem.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/throw_enough_mud_at_the_wall_and_some_of_it_will_stick
See comment above about 10 daily calls 😉
On my private phone, I just don't answer if I don't recognize the number. Unfortunately, I can't do that w/ the business phone.
I am with you on that, I just don't see how there are that many people that make it worthwhile. We are with Nate at 10 or more per day
I get several fake Google calls wanting my private info. I listened to one all the way thru years ago. Now I hang up as soon as they say Google or usually I can recognize the fake number because the caller ID lists a town and the wrong prefix.
They stung the most notorious robo caller not too long ago and that is all I get any more apart from all the local schools and other sources that want to put your name in some flyer they are sending out in the junk mailer package. there are simply too many of them to try and help them all, like 50+ groups calling several times a year.
My experience is that nearly all of these are an autodialer with humans monitoring a bunch of lines waiting for someone to pick up.
So if you have to answer the phone (your work line), you can recognize many/most of these calls by the delayed response to your "Acme Geomatics, this is Bob". I simply answer the phone, greet the caller and if they don't respond in a timely manner (like conversation quick) then I say "I'm sorry, I can't hear you. Please call back." and I hang up - even if they start talking. If it's a legit client, potential client, you'll get a call right back. If it's a robo call, they'll move on.
Anytime I get a phishing phone call asking for personal info I give them my ex-wife's SSN and birthdate.?ÿ After all these years it still gives me a warm fuzzy. 😉
I just answer in Spanish, they hang up immediately.
?ÿ
I just answer in Spanish, they hang up immediately.
?ÿ
You're lucky.?ÿ I tried that once and they started chattering back at me en espa?ñol...and their vocabulary exceeded mine.?ÿ
Entonces colgu?? el tel??fono. (I just hung up)
Well I don't actually speak Spanish so that would cause a problem, guess i would switch to German at that point.