i have long noted that the scam phone calls (the warranty on my 21-year-old car is about to expire) are clustered in one seemingly random day of the week. This week was typical, maybe one or two calls a day for four days, then this morning nine of them, all different, in one hour. That can't be a coincidence. Anyone have an explanation?
Tag.?ÿ Your it.
Wednesday was my day.?ÿ Only one today---for a walk-in tub.
I only get scam calls on days that end in Y. Although I must say that after over a year of making a policy of not answering calls that aren't on my contact list the frequency of the calls is tailing off, some. Its now one or two a day, down from one or two an hour.?ÿ
I feel for you guys who have to advertise your phone number.?ÿ I let the land line go when I replaced DSL with 5G internet, and I have been blissfully unaware of my car's warranty, the need for a new Medicare card, and the need for "Microsoft" to do something on m computer.
@bill93?ÿ But, but, I've never even been in the phone book and they still find me.
I let the land line go
The scam calls I get are all on the cell. I let the land line go, too, about 15 years ago.
At the PLSO Conference last month we learned the ODOT had removed all of their employees land lines during the pandemic as a cost saving measure. I have a land line on my city desk, I have neither received nor made a single call on it, ever.?ÿ?ÿ
While having coffee with my Dad this morning, he got a call on his cell saying that he needed to pay his $900 Amazon bill immediately. Before the scammer could instruct him wire the money NOW, my Dad said:
"What....$900, you're crazy."
"I don't owe you anything!!"
"$900, you're g*% d&*% crazy."
"NO, I don't owe you anything."
"Amazon?"
"Get off my phone."
[click] [dial tone]
My Dad turns 100 next month and is sharp as ever. He never fell off of no sugar beet wagon. Yesterday, he went to DMV and got his license renewed until 2027!!
I giggled most of the morning.
He can probably tell you the ups and downs of the cattle market over the past 70 years, too.
I've been wireless for a decade with very few spam calls except for the rare solicitations from political parties, local police/firefighter orgs etc.?ÿ In the last few months since I've switched to a 4G phone from my 3G I get a few calls a week which when I pick up nobody answers,?ÿ just a beep after ten seconds or so.?ÿ My phone alerts me "possible Spam" but I answer because it could be a long lost friend not in my Contacts list or the Lotto telling me I've won millions.
My question is what purpose is there for a spammer to call my number and immediately hang up after I've answered?
@mike-marks Currently there is a labor shortage and the spammers can't hire enough live operators to keep up with the robo dialer ?????ÿ
Even in "normal" times, they want to keep their crew busy despite non-answered calls, so I think they dial more than they can?ÿ handle.
About 25 years ago my daughter worked in one of those call centers that was set up for a religious based charity.?ÿ Even then, when the caller disconnected she would immediately hear her phone calling someone else.?ÿ Not even a few seconds of down time for her to take a drink of water.
"Vhat a country." as Yakov Smirnoff would say.?ÿ The same guy another daughter met in Branson about 15 years ago.?ÿ She told us he was a dirty old man.
my daughter worked in one of those call centers
Omaha was/is the Call Center Capital of the Country. I heard it was because Omahans have the most understood accent in the Country...
Another daughter worked at another call center in Lawrence, Kansas at about the same time.?ÿ This was part time work that would fit in around her class schedule one semester.?ÿ She really enjoyed it because the time flew by.?ÿ She would get focused and forget about time until she was tapped on the shoulder.?ÿ That was her cue to move out of the chair and let the next worker take over.
