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Message 1859911 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 1:45:00 UTC

OK - I swore that recently this one was discussed in the "Phone scam from India..." Thread, but as I go back there and look, the few posts that discussed this seem to be gone, now.

Just got a call from a Telemarketer named Emily. (If that's her real name.) The number had to be Caller ID Spoofed; as it came across as a Local Number to Danville, CA. I say this, because she claimed to be marketing for a resort in Orlando Florida. She insisted I had stayed at another related resort some time in the past. (COMPLETE BS, as I've NEVER been to a resort of ANY kind in my life.)

I tried to break into her spiel but, her voice kept going without pause. I remembered the posts recently in the "Phone scam from India" Thread stating that a woman caller pretending to have a problem with her headset and trying to get potential victims to say "yes" at some point during the spiel. I never even got to that... I kept trying to interrupt her and state that I've NEVER been to a resort in my life. But, as the spiel went on and on, I felt as if I wasn't being heard; possibly true, if this is a recorded announcement. I never said "yes" to anything.

Please be aware of this scam. If you hear someone stating she's adjusting her headset, and then introduces herself as Emily, HANG UP IMMEDIATELY!


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Message 1859914 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 1:56:50 UTC

You did right. Here is a news story about that call.
Can you hear me?
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Message 1859918 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 2:03:33 UTC
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My solution is that I simply NEVER answer the phone unless the caller ID shows it to be somebody I know.
Everything else is handled by that answering machine.
And more likely than not, the scammers don't even utter a word once they realize they don't have live 'bait' on the hook.
I get calls with the caller ID spoofed with some random number prefixed with my area code.
Like they think I am gonna be more likely to answer with a 'local' number pinging. And they probably are right, some folks would.
Not me.

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Message 1859919 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 2:07:20 UTC
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I like to play with them if its a person. Last few calls I answered "Attorney General Office". They hang up on me? Oh and the number of calls is dropping fast.
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Message 1859944 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 3:58:18 UTC

OK - Just spent the last 2.75 Hours contacting my Credit Card Companies. AMEX and Capital One are monitoring my accounts, and Citi - COSTCO Card allowed me to Lock the card for the next few days. (Yes, I'm an EXTREMELY PARANOID frakker!!!)

Like I said in the first post, I'm sure, (99.99%), that I did NOT say "Yes" to anything; but, even contacted Danville PD, (per the KTLA 5 Article), and told the police officer the Spoofed Number that came in, the Spiel, that I'm quite sure that I did NOT say "Yes" to anything. They are making a report about this, they were aware of the scam, but NOT to the effect that the scammers are recording responses from the victims trying to record "Yes" from them.

Danville PD says that if any Fraudulent Charges come across any of my accounts, they will give me a copy of the full report to back me up and get my CC Companies to reverse the Fraudulent Charges.


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Message 1859953 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 4:17:29 UTC

If there are recording it, I bet the best thing to do is go into full scream mode.
I need the line for an emergency!
They are shooting them!
The bodies are piling up!
Oh my god he shot another one!
Where are the police!
We need a dozen ambulances!
He is getting more ammunition!
He's kicking in another classroom door!
Is that a bomb?

When they play it back they just might give themselves away.
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Message 1859954 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 4:23:42 UTC

Have had this call. She gets half way through her spiel and gets to hear my reply. CLICK, as I hang up on her.

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Message 1859978 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 6:30:37 UTC

no number = no answer
unknown number = no answer
I let the call ring out rather than give them the pleasure of knowing they've dialed a live line.
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Message 1859983 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 6:48:37 UTC - in response to Message 1859978.  
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no number = no answer
unknown number = no answer
I let the call ring out rather than give them the pleasure of knowing they've dialed a live line.


Rob's right , surprised people are still getting caught out coz it's been going on for ages here . If they " got " you it's your fault for being so stupid easy as that !
They are " claiming " to be a call blocking company for the last few weeks in the U.K , sure you across the pond will soon be getting those calls so have fun :-) .
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Message 1859992 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 7:54:04 UTC - in response to Message 1859991.  

I have to say TL that half of this seems to be your own fault


Half ? you're being very generous there . Anybody with any sence would of hung up the phone , not try to get a word in . If they scam you you've only got yourself to blame .
Life is what you make of it :-)

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Message 1860011 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 10:14:36 UTC

Oh, if she could perhaps be the "funny" lady of sorts, such a thing would not have to be about that of (possible) numbers at all.

Grin.

Why not perhaps say or tell such a thing as "helterskelter" instead, because this word probably would need an interpretation on its own.

Anyway, putting or placing a dash in between, making it helter-skelter, makes it possible interpretable.

Dang.

So, what about the rest of it?

Ding-dang, sing a song.
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Message 1860017 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 10:38:02 UTC - in response to Message 1859991.  
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I have to say TL that half of this seems to be your own fault. Why did you hang on for so long trying to get a word in edgewise? it should have been obvious it was a scam call in a few seconds.


As I found out, this may be the only way to get rid of them forever. I went from getting several a week sometimes twice a day to not one in three years by deliberately wasting their time, pretending to be interested, going up to the progressively more expensive tiers (with better English), patiently letting them finish their spiels. At the end they asked for my credit card number; I feigned connection issues and hung up.

I did this three times and never got another call. Their margins are very tight due to having a very poor hit:miss ratio, so do likely track and probably even share the numbers of time-wasters to avoid. Nothing else (threats, Do Not Call lists, legal action) works as they are in a different continent.
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Message 1860022 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 11:00:32 UTC

...and in many cases the automatic dialer runs though a range of number until somebody picks the call up, it then transfers the call to a human or to the call-hold mechanism if no human is available. These systems have no "knowledge" of do-not-call lists, and are quite simple in their logic. Recently one of them dialed our office, starting with the lowest number and worked its way through all our numbers. One colleague decided to have a bit of fun, and nearly sold the caller a car as we struggled not to laugh too loudly (he'd put the call on speaker so we could enjoy the conversation); once the call was broken, the next number in the office rang, and the conversation was resumed with the words "Now about this car you want to buy from me" and "click" from the call centre.
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Message 1860037 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 12:27:06 UTC - in response to Message 1859944.  

I did NOT say "Yes" to anything


if any Fraudulent Charges come across any of my accounts


Even if you inadvertently said the word yes during the call, you didn't give them your account numbers, so I don't understand why you would be worried about that.
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Message 1860039 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 12:37:34 UTC - in response to Message 1860037.  

I did NOT say "Yes" to anything


if any Fraudulent Charges come across any of my accounts


Even if you inadvertently said the word yes during the call, you didn't give them your account numbers, so I don't understand why you would be worried about that.


I believe that reading the link, they target people who's details they have already obtained by other nefarious means.
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Message 1860048 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 13:12:34 UTC
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I usually hang up within the first few words, as soon as it's obviously a telemarketer (scam or not). The other day, I answered one and put it on speaker, but my hands were too busy to hang up. It was one of those claiming my credit looks good but they can help me lower my interest rate (you know it's a scam because they never mention what bank you have a card with or any other specific details). It wanted me to push 1 to talk to them or 2 to not get any more calls (yeah, right). I didn't push anything and it hung up fairly quickly.

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I keep pretty close watch on all my accounts, so if anything happens I don't expect, I know about it within a few days and challenge it quickly. And for all my lack of fondness for Bank of America, I must say they have good fraud detection. Multiple times, I have gone to train shows and tried to buy things from out of state vendors, only to be declined. I finally learned to wait for BoA to send me a text listing the last 3 attempted transactions. I respond with confirmation of them and they remove the block while I'm standing there. They also caught a real fraud within minutes.
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Message 1860051 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 13:28:51 UTC - in response to Message 1860022.  

These systems have no "knowledge" of do-not-call lists
They do, that is the source of the numbers they call!
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Message 1860053 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 13:36:43 UTC - in response to Message 1860037.  

I did NOT say "Yes" to anything

if any Fraudulent Charges come across any of my accounts

Even if you inadvertently said the word yes during the call, you didn't give them your account numbers, so I don't understand why you would be worried about that.

I see some things to worry about when a caller tell you that the conversation are recorded as a measurement to avoid liability.
Often there are many question you have to answer either "yes" and "no".
Now changing "no" to a "yes" in the recording is very simple procedure to the caller.
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Message 1860060 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 14:01:35 UTC

Tl wern't you posting in the other phone scam threads how you have got " vonage " or something that stops all those calls as you said ? And were being rather " smug " about how " clever " you are using this to stop receving any " scam / inwanted " calls
Don't matter what you have set up on your phone line if the idiot answering don't have their braincell " turned on " does it ??
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Message 1860105 - Posted: 7 Apr 2017, 16:00:07 UTC - in response to Message 1860060.  

Tl wern't you posting in the other phone scam threads how you have got " vonage " or something that stops all those calls as you said ? And were being rather " smug " about how " clever " you are using this to stop receving any " scam / inwanted " calls
Don't matter what you have set up on your phone line if the idiot answering don't have their braincell " turned on " does it ??

I have Vonage, AND Nomorobo. Nomorobo is the "semi-automatic" robo-call blocker. It automatically catches 99.999% of Call Center Calls. The ones that get through, I report back to Nomorobo and then within minutes that reported number is blocked.

Blocked Nomorobo calls that try to repeat their offense are allowed ONE ring through to your phone, with the Caller ID attached, to let you know the call was blocked. Insistent offenders keep calling ringing the phone once per hour/day/week... These calls I put to Vonage Call Block and my phone NEVER rings again from them! :-)

Nomorobo is unlimited as to how many calls it will block. However; Vonage only has 50 spots to be allowed to block unwanted callers. I am currently up to 46 out of my allowed 50. 15 of them are from the previously reported 1-800-555-xxxx numbers that kept trying to get through here. :-O

So, the systems are NOT perfect, but have eliminated 99.999% of the scammers calling in here. :-)

Regular AT&T or Verizon Land Lines CANNOT make use of Nomorobo; because, Land Lines do NOT have Simulring.

This new scammer gets around the Nomorobo by the Caller ID Spoofing that they are using. The Spoofed ID this time was 925-831-xxxx. (I reported this to Danville PD last night.) Each call across the US will be a different number; but, will be close to the potential Victim's own number. (Hence, YES, my own home number is 925-831-xxxx.) The idea behind the scammer is that a person is MORE likely to answer a "Local" number.

So, be warned out there, and be careful.


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