So I told her to eat shit and die, then never call back. OK, its a waste of my time and hers. There is never a way that I'm going to talk to her or anyone else with that kind of fraudulent come on. and its true, I do wish she'd eat shit and die. Or at least go away, far away.

Does anyone really fall for that crap? The government gets involved in too much now. Why don't they do something of value for a change? I know, they're probably going to get involved by protecting the innocent cold callers from obscene folks that just answer their harassing calls. God, I do hate them and swear(trying to get creative with my obscenities) I will never give them even a decent answer. Do folks really buy things from them? Why doesn't the phone company get involved and help us?

I was getting 3 to 4 calls a day from spoofed numbers leaving the same message "I'm from senior medical blah blah blah then leave the same return number" Had to turn on the iFone blocker so they at least didn't ring but went to VM.

It had to be part of that big company that just got sued by the government, as they have stopped for now....

Yep. I've also been getting calls from people saying I'm approved for a $75k loan. They come from all sorts of area codes now.

I got the 75K loan call too. I told the woman to send me a check. She said she needed more info from me first. I said you already have all the info you need. She hung up.
When do you think my 75K will get to me?
It was spoofed call or I would not have answered.

.. and they want to buy your house.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
.. and they want to buy your house.

but, they never offer me a price, when I tell them "I'll sell, how much are you going to give me for it" - I figured that if they want to buy it, they should have a price already in mind, no?

The array of different area codes is amazing. I don't think they could do it without the willing participation of the telecommunications companies.

Stop answering your phone when it's a number you don't recognize.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Stop answering your phone when it's a number you don't recognize.

I have a couple of advertising numbers forwarded through my work phone to my cell, I only see the work number calling. about 5-8 a day

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Originally posted by PASig:
Stop answering your phone when it's a number you don't recognize.

The iFone blocks it and sends it to VM, which is a form of answering, most calls that come in blocked that way don't leave messages, it's the same spoofed call that does.

Would be great if you could set the iFone block option to not forward to VM.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Stop answering your phone when it's a number you don't recognize.

Best answer.

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Originally posted by sse:
The array of different area codes is amazing. I don't think they could do it without the willing participation of the telecommunications companies.

The SIP-based providers will give you a "ohone number" in any area code that has availability (some area codes have every number already assigned). Not to mention that spoofing a caller ID is trivial, so you don't even need the actual number itself. I am sure that predictive dialers can be programmed to display a different caller ID for every call origination (so as to defeat calling number-based call rejection mechanisms). This happens long before "the phone company" (whatever that means in this day and age) gets their slimy mitts on the bitstream. It's all software thee days, and providers could be doing much more to make it possible for subscribers to manage unwanted calls. The bottom line is that their customers are not willing to pay for the software development costs that would make it possible.

I rarely answer calls any more, only if it is a person who I want to talk to at that very moment, and who has taken the necessary steps to show a name for their caller ID (not just a number that happens to be in my phone book). Everybody else gets rejected, if their business isn't urgent enough for them to leave a VM, screw them. Yes, I have lost friends with this strategy, but I don't miss them.

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Originally posted by egregore:

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Originally posted by PASig:
Stop answering your phone when it's a number you don't recognize.

Best answer.

Do people really consider buying things from cold call spammers?

A fool and his money are soon parted.

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This is Nina at the health care dept at Medicare

Me: "What are you wearing?"

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Originally posted by smschulz:
.. and they want to buy your house.

For a fair price, but not once has anyone one of these people put a number on the table.

I tell them 1.5 million for the house. They hang up. They never get past my wife on the Medicare fraud.

We got a Panasonic land line phone system at Costco that tells the unknown number to dial one to be put thru. Since the robo-dialer can't understand the speech, it can't call one, and the call is blocked. A real person has no trouble following the simple instruction, and the phone rings. 4 phones and a base station for $80, best money we have spent in a long time. Used to get as many as 20 spam calls a day.

My first response to those trying to sell me medical insurance is "I'm 85" and then I hear a click.

flashguy

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Originally posted by MoosehornMan:

Do people really consider buying things from cold call spammers?

A fool and his money are soon parted.

Why, yes, yes, they do. And relatives needing bail money, Social Security accounts "suspended," the list goes on. You, I and others on this board may not fall for these scams, but apparently enough people do that the scammers think their efforts worthwhile.

I have set up my contacts with different ringtones. One is for family, another for business associates, the third for everything else. The everything else one is not answered, ever, period.

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Originally posted by MoosehornMan:

Do people really consider buying things from cold call spammers?

Especially the elderly. Perhaps because their life experience does not include this kind of utter dishonesty they fall for it. Perhaps because they are getting mentally frail.

Scammers are utter shit for doing what they do.