Watch out for these new telephone scams to steal your money

Daily Breeze ^ | Aug. 21, 2016 | Larry Altman,

[ASA Vet]

21 year old Asian women who are anxious to meet me isn't legitimate

Mine was, and is. She now works for Silk Airlines. She's #5

[ASA Vet]

So use your call forwarding feature to send those calls to AT&T’s local number.

[EinNYC]

I thank them profusely: "Thank you. I am registered with the Federal Do Not Call program. Now that I have your number, you will be getting a $500 fine."

They never call back.

[MinuteGal]

We're being inundated here in Florida with telemarketing and robo-calls, with most of them coming in daily before, during and after the dinner hour.

These smart-asses marketers know that's the time of day that someone is home. They also know that there's many retirees and aging seniors in Florida who are considered soft marks for insurance calls, health calls, etc.

Being on the National Do-Not-Call Registry doesn't mean a thing anymore.

I see no end in sight to these calls, I see only an increase.

WHO'S going to stop these arrogant vultures from intruding into our own homes with impunity?

The phone companies, the state legislatures and/or commissions, the feds...???

Hardly.

Our privacy counts for nothing with the powers-that-be who undoubtedly are in the thrall of telemarketing lobbyists.

I follow the money-trail in EVERYTHING these days !

Leni

[ssaftler]

Love to chat with them using my fake Indian accent.

I LOVE it! I'm mad at myself for not thinking of it sooner. Left a birthday greeting on my brother-in-law's answering machine a few years ago, and I still don't think he's figured out who sent it.

[cherry]

in the last few weeks we've gotten two calls saying we're being sued by the IRS!

it does give you pause...

[Innovative]

“Being on the National Do-Not-Call Registry doesn’t mean a thing anymore.”

I noticed that too. It is really too bad.

The only effective solution would be for nobody to fall for any of these calls — that wouldn’t make it worth their while.

[MinuteGal]

Unfortunately, many people DO fall for these calls.

The telemarketers reel in enough suckers percentage-wise to make their efforts pay off big time.

I had a friend who took a temporary gig working in an enormous warehouse space set up as a telemarketing boiler room with hundreds of phones. She made good commissions on each mark she could talk into signing on...but she soon quit because it's a pressure job most normal, moral people can't handle.

Leni

[krizzy]

I got one of those, they left a message on my machine. I called them back to make sure they had my number. When they answered I whispered a few seconds to give them time to turn up volume on the ear piece, then blew a survival whistle into the phone as loud and as long as I could. Funny, they have not called back yet.

[mad_as_he$$]

Make up a persona, just lay the phone down and let them go on - run the clock. I have one persona that is Habib the store owner, he is a real fun guy - Why you call me? Why you don’t come to my store? and so on.

[mad_as_he$$]

+1.

[PigRigger]

I got so sick of these people calling I would answer as Agent Mulder of the FBI.... communicate that they the line was being traced and if they were to hang up it would be a violation of FBI and Interpol laws.

After making the announcement I would let them know that Agent Scully would call them back after the trace was completed and that it would be good for them at this time to supply their IRS employee number.

This usually ended in a hang-up or vile language followed by a hang-up.

In some cases... the call became so numerous I would call back the number... and if their was a answering machine... I would play meatloaf music into it until the mailbox became full... I would occasionally pick up the phone and interject how much I was enjoying the music myself... that usually led to me being taken off their call chain....

Good Times.....

[AllAmericanGirl44]

The newest scam is them asking you to pay with itunes gift cards! Freakin aholes, they prey on the elderly and the weak and it ticks me off.

[JimRed]

I keep getting guys named “Chuck” or “Dave” who are obviously from somewhere in India or Bangladesh calling about my Windows having a problem. Hey, they open, they close; what’s the problem?

[T-Bone Texan]

This happened to me.

We just had a baby. I am freakin’ tired and not thinking clearly. I’m so tired everything seems like a dream.

But when Habib said that I would be paying with iTunes gift cards, I laughed in his face.

As an aside, they played scanner-radio static in the background to scare me, as they assured me the Harris County Sheriffs were on their way to arrest me.

As their last gambit they claimed to have suspended my DL.

I told them they’d never suspend my License to Ill.

[JimRed]

Do a reverse call after they hang up to see where it goes then report it?

I have reported numerous numbers to the Do Not Call list. The calls keep coming. There is no way to follow up on the reports you make, unless I missed something on the site. I suspect that Do Not Call is just a jobs program (show or no-show) for the otherwise unemployable relatives of the "connected".