New Phone Scam Today

[buck1032]

On ‎7‎/‎19‎/‎2016 at 7:37 PM, Dolomite_supafly said:

To end the automated calls do this. Find a recording, like on Youtube, of the first few seconds of the disconnected line tone. Record that as your greeting followed by your message. To a person it is some sort of glitch and they won't think anything of it but an automated dialer will hear it and list your number as disconnected. I used to get horrible telemarketer calls on my cell phone. I actually got a call while I was telling another to quit calling. After recording the disconnected tone and letting all calls go to my voice message all the calls pretty much stopped. I still have to let my phone go to my voice message a few days a year but it is way better than before.

I will be doing this... I get that phone call several times a week plus many others. I too don't answer any phone that I don't recognize the call number. But these clowns fill up my answering machine.

[Dustbuster]

Dusty really messed with one guy once. I heard a recording and damn near spit out my soup. And I wasn't even eating soup!

thats was pretty funny lol, especially the bad kids in the background hahaha


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk, its either this or smoke signals!

[Pete123]

I'll tell you what, there are so many dishonest people in the world.

We have a fair amount of members that are getting older.  Sadly, older people are the target of many of these things.

I used to live in Atlanta.  There was an elderly lady across the street.  Some scumbags came by and said he roof needed to be treated for some reason or other.  She paid them.  They were on the roof spraying water on it when another neighbor checked on her and called the police. 

The thieves left before the police could get there.  Too bad, the Dekalb County Jail isn't a great place for white boys.

[hipower]

Well...they certainly are persistant. Got another one yesterday. lol At least it was a different voice.

[Grunt67]

I have a flip phone. If the call is a number/name I don't recognize, I open the phone, close it quickly, hangs up. "If" it's an important call, they'll leave a voicemail. Works for me.

[analog_kidd]

I used to get a lot of telemarketer calls, and I used to have a lot of fun with them.

One of my favorites was to get all apprehensive sounding when they would say my name. Then I would interrupt them and tell them that I was in the witness protection program, and that was my old name. I'd ask how they got my old name with my new number, get all freaked out sounding, and finish it off by saying that "if you found me then so can they". I had one lady seriously get concerned and call her supervisor over.

If callers ever asked for my wife, I would say "My wife is not allowed to use the phone right now, and her phone privileges won't be restored for a while." They never knew how to respond to that.

[leroy]

On 7/19/2016 at 4:27 PM, VERO1 said:

The IRS doesn't call people, they send certified letters.

Bingo...!! Vero1 is exactly right... They been callin the house land line and my cel phone for a while... 

leroy

[suspiciousmind]

I've been getting calls from the similar people for a few years now.  They're all looking for the same person to scam, but that person is not me. Something about a felony, and lately it's been something else. Lol.

[Dennis1209]

Well fella's it seems they haven't missed any of us on here. 

[buck1032]

On ‎7‎/‎19‎/‎2016 at 7:37 PM, Dolomite_supafly said:

To end the automated calls do this. Find a recording, like on Youtube, of the first few seconds of the disconnected line tone. Record that as your greeting followed by your message. To a person it is some sort of glitch and they won't think anything of it but an automated dialer will hear it and list your number as disconnected. I used to get horrible telemarketer calls on my cell phone. I actually got a call while I was telling another to quit calling. After recording the disconnected tone and letting all calls go to my voice message all the calls pretty much stopped. I still have to let my phone go to my voice message a few days a year but it is way better than before.

I did this today, using a ringtone from youtube. hopefully this will cull the heard so to speak.

[Steelharp]

On 7/25/2016 at 7:05 AM, Dennis1209 said:

Well fella's it seems they haven't missed any of us on here. 

No one ever calls me.

[buck1032]

1 hour ago, Steelharp said:

No one ever calls me.

Shot me your number and I will call you.

 

[Steelharp]

1 hour ago, buck1032 said:

Shot me your number and I will call you.

 

[Dustbuster]

No one ever calls me.

Always answer them by saying Salam alechem Then start screaming allya cockbar
They will stop calling.

Steel harp I just posted your number on Ashley Madison, have fun!!! [emoji12]