Phone "Internet" scam

[shadycon]

In my area they are using/stealing local phone numbers. I told one he had the wrong number,click........... i asked another one if this call is being recorded, he said no, I told him all calls are recorded so this must be fake,click...........

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[browningautorifle]

In my area they are using/stealing local phone numbers

They purchase them from legitimate organizations such as banks and others...your car dealership where you bought a car, anyone else that has chance to have your number. They pay well.

[RASelkirk]

In my area they are using/stealing local phone numbers. I told one he had the wrong number,click........... i asked another one if this call is being recorded, he said no, I told him all calls are recorded so this must be fake,click...........

My 3 digit local prefix starts with 291, once I started getting scam calls starting with that prefix, I blocked all incoming calls starting with those numbers. There are prolly 250+ blocked calls from that prefix in my call log. If someone needs to actually get a hold of me they know how.

Russ

[beachdog77]

I am an I home care giver for an elderly grand dad, I have to keep him on his 83 year old toes about these guys. The rule is any one calling with an Indian accent is a scam and hang up. He was taken for $600 some time ago but I wasn't here at the time. A second time i caught him on the phone trying to install a remote access program but stopped him while he was on the phone with the scammer. This scammer had a pair on him because he called back three times a day for three days trying to figure out when i wasnt home to try to get grand dad on the line.
Most recently they said they were Comcast Tv / Internet provider. Their line was that some one was gaining access to my wireless and downloading "troubling ir ree gal things and if i did not give him remote access then i was going to jail for the downloaded content. Much to his surprise my response in Hindi about his mother summed up what i thought about the situation.

[shadycon]

No comprendey!

[Sunray]

"...just put the phone down..." Suggest you hang up first. There such a thing as the "Do not call list" in England? Doesn't help ending the unsolicited calls, but it gives you a place to whine to. Been getting Robo calls for months wanting to sell me vacation time. Bell Canada got fined $2 million Cdn. a few years back for unsolicited calls. Drop in the bucket but the calls stopped.
"...using/stealing local phone numbers..." They use dialer computers using unassigned numbers.

[shadycon]

Around here they use active numbers!

[browningautorifle]

they use active numbers

Yes, here too.

He's wrong about unassigned numbers (Canada), they use numbers that belong to people currently. I once returned a call from a scammer and got a nice little old lady. I told her that she had people using her number for things... Also the do not call list he speaks of is garbage and does nothing, so disregard it. I paid for call blocker for hidden caller ID for a couple months until I found it did nothing so I stopped hat too. If you don't answer hidden caller numbers they will eventually stop. You don't miss anything either.

[CINDERS]

FAR-Q-2 is my reply as I hang up I give them enough to start speaking then say that funny thing I am getting less calls now!