I do that often too, although recently they don't even respond when they call they just hang up
Scammer calls are scaring me
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For those of us now looking after aging parents who don't get tech very well, it's a full time job keeping them off their phones and not responding to anyone. We have large signs beside the phones to say "DO NOT GIVE ANYONE ANY INFORMATION OR PASSWORDS!" My MIL got scammed several times!
That's very sad to hear especially if your MIL or anyone's aged elders don't learn from their mistakes or listen to the warnings of their kids and even their grandkids.
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Scammer, always with thick South Asian accent: "How are you?"
Me: Who are you?
Scammer: How are you?
Me: Why are you calling?
Scammer returns to script. This is Rogers, (or sometimes Bell). We have a limited time promotion, 30% off. Now your current provider is Bell, (or Rogers), the one he isn't calling from, Is that correct?
He's phishing for the name of my ISP, hoping to sell that information to a data broker.
If I'm in a bad mood, I say "Your name is Dipurash. You're calling from Pakistan to phish for my ISP, Is that correct? , <click>.
I know he's calling from India, but using Pakistan instead is part of the diss.
Sometimes Rogers or Bell do make cold calls trying to solicit new business, but they would NEVER use a telemarketer with a thick South Asian accent, because of the phone scam stereotype.
Another recent scam:
The guy gives a first name, and says he's calling from Best Buy about my recent computer repairs, then asks if I remember him. I have an 'Indy' computer geek who has done all of my computer maintenance for the past 25 years, and he's The Best.
I don't know why the Best Buy guy is calling, but it's probably to inform me of some 'error' which can be fixed if I download something from him.
Another time, a guy said "I'm calling from Windows", and I told him to get a phone, it has a longer range.
The fact that each of those scammers asks me a question first is lesson one in 'bum school'. They want the 'mark' to answer 'yes' to some stupid question, to condition them to reply with 'Yes".
When I lived in Montreal, the question was always 'You speak English?'. Now the most common one is "Do you mind if I ask you a question?", before they ask for money.
Once I was walking on the sidewalk, and a guy in a car rolls down his window and says "Excuse me, have you ever heard of Orillia, Ontario?" "I said 'Yeah'. Then he asks me if I'd give him money to buy gas to drive home. He conveniently forgot his credit and debit cards at home, or 'they were stolen'.
I said "It sounds like one of us is fucked. I'm glad it's not me.".
Me: Who are you?
Scammer: How are you?
Me: Why are you calling?
Scammer returns to script. This is Rogers, (or sometimes Bell). We have a limited time promotion, 30% off. Now your current provider is Bell, (or Rogers), the one he isn't calling from, Is that correct?
He's phishing for the name of my ISP, hoping to sell that information to a data broker.
If I'm in a bad mood, I say "Your name is Dipurash. You're calling from Pakistan to phish for my ISP, Is that correct? , <click>.
I know he's calling from India, but using Pakistan instead is part of the diss.
Sometimes Rogers or Bell do make cold calls trying to solicit new business, but they would NEVER use a telemarketer with a thick South Asian accent, because of the phone scam stereotype.
Another recent scam:
The guy gives a first name, and says he's calling from Best Buy about my recent computer repairs, then asks if I remember him. I have an 'Indy' computer geek who has done all of my computer maintenance for the past 25 years, and he's The Best.
I don't know why the Best Buy guy is calling, but it's probably to inform me of some 'error' which can be fixed if I download something from him.
Another time, a guy said "I'm calling from Windows", and I told him to get a phone, it has a longer range.
The fact that each of those scammers asks me a question first is lesson one in 'bum school'. They want the 'mark' to answer 'yes' to some stupid question, to condition them to reply with 'Yes".
When I lived in Montreal, the question was always 'You speak English?'. Now the most common one is "Do you mind if I ask you a question?", before they ask for money.
Once I was walking on the sidewalk, and a guy in a car rolls down his window and says "Excuse me, have you ever heard of Orillia, Ontario?" "I said 'Yeah'. Then he asks me if I'd give him money to buy gas to drive home. He conveniently forgot his credit and debit cards at home, or 'they were stolen'.
I said "It sounds like one of us is fucked. I'm glad it's not me.".
I have this screening service on my phone too, its called "call assist".
Works great to weed out the spam and scam callers
10 years I keep repeating every two weeks, do you think they listen? NO. My parents are not meds so I am going to say it is the EGO.
They know more than us.
Geriatric narcissism
My parents speak a third language, I always tell to use that language, BUT NO.
@onomatopoeia I remember a few times about stereo speakers from the back of the trunk sales at Home Depot parking lot. My response was "I buy your speakers if you buy my coffins and cremation urn from my trunk".
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friend of mine did a similar thing because he kept getting calls like that and eventually lead one of them on for over an hour before he told them he didnt have a pc
I posted this one, once before. This may be specific to landline phones.
The caller is informing you about some suspicious activity with your credit card. The call ends, and you hang up.
When you pick up the phone again, there's no dial tone. He's still connected. He hopes that you will immediately call the phone number of your credit card company. When you're finished dialing, a second guy standing next to the scammer will speak to you, and they hope that you thing the second guy works for your credit card company, while you give him all of the information he wanted in verifying your account. If you are suspicious about the second guy, and don't tell him anything, they'll still know which phone number you called, from the different tone sounds which correspond to numerals 0-9.
How to beat this: remove the phone jack from the wall or from the phone itself, and wait at least 20 seconds before plugging it back in.
The caller is informing you about some suspicious activity with your credit card. The call ends, and you hang up.
When you pick up the phone again, there's no dial tone. He's still connected. He hopes that you will immediately call the phone number of your credit card company. When you're finished dialing, a second guy standing next to the scammer will speak to you, and they hope that you thing the second guy works for your credit card company, while you give him all of the information he wanted in verifying your account. If you are suspicious about the second guy, and don't tell him anything, they'll still know which phone number you called, from the different tone sounds which correspond to numerals 0-9.
How to beat this: remove the phone jack from the wall or from the phone itself, and wait at least 20 seconds before plugging it back in.
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Damn. This is like me giving to sin during pandemic to apparent shoppers drug mart hiring. Don’t know if anything bad happened
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I havent used a wall phone forever. Even my work one is some stupid Microsoft teams phone that’s I don’t know supposer to inspire nostalgia?! It’s been disconnected since I started since they already can call me five different ways
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Yes my grandmother withdrew her savings for scammers. Twice. My uncles parents same thing. $100,000 to invest in crypto. Dementia. Just awful
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may I ask are they also super cheap people in general with wveryone else ?! My references above to elderly being scammed are super penny pinchers to extreme it’s really weird. So when they willingly went to get thousands and hundreds of thousands withdrawn for African prince and my “cousins” in jail scams it was so odd. I haven’t ever received a gift that wasnt used or a broken object or a dollarama lead key chain
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In fairness I’m under 45 and fell for the rcmp scam that they were coming to arrest me after work unless I told them my tax information. it was all very new the whole scam thing and I didn’t know and even worse is the whole call was recorded on my work system forever more since I worked at a call center too
I told my manager I had to leave because I needed to go get arrested and he’s like wtf are you talking about Also finish your dials and minutes lol
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This is frightening. Why buy halloween decorations When you can just do this in your car
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