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tinytort posted:I also keep getting calls in Chinese (the only bit I understand or recognize is "ni hao"), and I have no idea why. I think it's also a robocall, since there isn't any reaction when I try and go "you have the wrong number" or "I can't understand you". I'm getting one or two of these every week. If anyone finds out what it is, ease let us know. Mine always come from a D.C. area code (202).
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Just start yelling stats about the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm getting one or two of these every week. If anyone finds out what it is, ease let us know. Mine always come from a D.C. area code (202). I got a call like that once. When I looked up the number, it was for the Chinese Embassy. I'm going to guess it's a scam spoofing their number.
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Jul 1, 2018 18:26
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Does anyone know of a way to stave off or end spam spoofed calls? I get at least a few a week, always from either my home TX area code or the two TX and FL area codes where the rest of my family are from. I just don’t answer unless it’s a number I know and figure anything worth listening to will leave a message, but drat it gets annoying.
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Jul 1, 2018 21:40
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I have Nomorobo. It works to a degree I think. I still get a few slip through but not too many now. I ignore any calls from numbers I don’t have saved/or ordered an Uber or food or whatever.
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Jul 1, 2018 23:09
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EL BROMANCE posted:I have Nomorobo. It works to a degree I think. I still get a few slip through but not too many now. I ignore any calls from numbers I don’t have saved/or ordered an Uber or food or whatever. You mentioning places you order food from reminded me of something from way back. Roughly ten years ago, I got my credit reports from the big three companies. Not just scores, but the full reports. On one of them, they had listed as a former residence of mine the address of a Chinese restaurant that I went to exactly once, about five years prior. In those years, I never once had a fraudulent charge. Of course, I was also dirt poor and had craptacular credit. Did someone try to do something with my card number, and realized, "lol, I can't do poo poo with this", or what? It's always been a curious mystery to me.
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Jul 2, 2018 00:04
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tinytort posted:I also keep getting calls in Chinese (the only bit I understand or recognize is "ni hao"), and I have no idea why. I think it's also a robocall, since there isn't any reaction when I try and go "you have the wrong number" or "I can't understand you". its a Chinese recording right? If its the same one everyone else is getting, I put it on speaker phone for a chinese co-worker. Turns out its the classic scam; you've won some Chinese lottery, but you just need to pay some legal fees (because you are not in china right now) and then you can get your winnings. classics never die.
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Jul 2, 2018 09:29
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We get the tax office calling scam in English and Chinese here in Australia. It's tax time so most people get hit by some sort of text or call. The message usually is someone claiming you have a warrant against you and you need to call this number... Then get you to pay in iTunes gift cards if not wire cash to an interstate account.
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Jul 2, 2018 09:37
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ianmacdo posted:its a Chinese recording right? If its the same one everyone else is getting, I put it on speaker phone for a chinese co-worker. Turns out its the classic scam; you've won some Chinese lottery, but you just need to pay some legal fees (because you are not in china right now) and then you can get your winnings. I assume it's a recording, since I've tried "I don't understand you" a couple times and the voice on the other end hasn't even paused or acted like it heard me. I also assumed it was someone looking for the previous owner of this number, though, because as best I can tell, she dropped off the face of the earth; forgetting (or "forgetting") to update your number with loan payment people is one thing, but normally you tell your daycare provider that your number has changed. So an upgrade to "and now someone from China is chasing after this lady for money" wouldn't have been that surprising.
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Jul 2, 2018 11:15
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I have gotten numerous calls from the "IRS" about a lawsuit or warrant against me. Only the IRS VERY RARELY calls, if ever. And not about owing them money. I do keep getting robocalls that leave a VM, except only half the voicemail is there. I own a business so gets tons of poo poo calls every day with people trying to sell me services or other poo poo I can't actually afford, never leaving messages but totally willing to call like six times a day because if I am not interested in something my mind can TOTALLY be changed by annoying the gently caress out of me. One "automotive rentals inc" keeps calling me daily.
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Jul 2, 2018 14:22
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Yeah we constantly get calls from sales people trying to get through to the manager under false pretenses. I'm not sure if they think "Well, they managed to fool our workers they must be a great company who deserve my business!" or what. Everyone just gets put "on hold while I connect you" now. Hold is the park feature.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah we constantly get calls from sales people trying to get through to the manager under false pretenses. I'm not sure if they think "Well, they managed to fool our workers they must be a great company who deserve my business!" or what. Everyone just gets put "on hold while I connect you" now. Hold is the park feature. One place I worked at, our finance manager got so sick of the "can I speak to the person in charge of buying ink and toner supplies?" cold calls (and the employees that would transfer those instead of hanging up), she had a extension set up that just went to a phone with the ringer off in a closet somewhere. If someone called my line asking that, I cheerfully said "sure! Let me just transfer you!", hit the 4 digit Extension Number to Nowhere, and went on with my day.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:One place I worked at, our finance manager got so sick of the "can I speak to the person in charge of buying ink and toner supplies?" cold calls (and the employees that would transfer those instead of hanging up), she had a extension set up that just went to a phone with the ringer off in a closet somewhere. If someone called my line asking that, I cheerfully said "sure! Let me just transfer you!", hit the 4 digit Extension Number to Nowhere, and went on with my day. https://soundcloud.com/user-237714155/sales-call-abyss Really, really reconsider using headphones.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:One place I worked at, our finance manager got so sick of the "can I speak to the person in charge of buying ink and toner supplies?" cold calls (and the employees that would transfer those instead of hanging up), she had a extension set up that just went to a phone with the ringer off in a closet somewhere. If someone called my line asking that, I cheerfully said "sure! Let me just transfer you!", hit the 4 digit Extension Number to Nowhere, and went on with my day. that's genius
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Jul 2, 2018 22:39
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Its been too long since this hellish thing was shared in thread. ears beware.
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TheParadigm posted:Its been too long since this hellish thing was shared in thread. Seven hours and two posts, yeah this really takes me back.
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:That's clever, though you're not going to get PINs that way. A few pages back but they actually did ATM skimmers here too, and they had installed mini cameras above the pin code pad. It was pretty advanced.
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Jul 3, 2018 10:34
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Midjack posted:Seven hours and two posts, yeah this really takes me back. This is what I get for not checking before making a post. My bad, mea culpa, and also oopsies
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Jul 4, 2018 09:31
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Raldikuk posted:Depends on state. In MN employers have to pay within 30 days of hours worked And if you quit/get fired, they have to cut you your last check within 24 hours. CH Robinson held my last check for over 3 weeks, I had to file a DOL complaint to get them to pay up.
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Jul 4, 2018 11:11
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm getting one or two of these every week. If anyone finds out what it is, ease let us know. Mine always come from a D.C. area code (202). It's the Chinese embassy calling. There's a problem with your immigration status and you need to send them a wire transfer to fix it. Basically the standard "trouble with the IRS" scam but tailored to areas with a high Chinese immigrant community.
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Saeku posted:It's the Chinese embassy calling. There's a problem with your immigration status and you need to send them a wire transfer to fix it. Basically the standard "trouble with the IRS" scam but tailored to areas with a high Chinese immigrant community. That makes me wonder why they're calling me, then. I am as white as the driven snow, my international experience consists of a few trips to Ontario, I literally don't know a single word of Chinese, and I've had this number for 15 years.
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:That makes me wonder why they're calling me, then. I am as white as the driven snow, my international experience consists of a few trips to Ontario, I literally don't know a single word of Chinese, and I've had this number for 15 years. They're just dialing numbers in sequence. Yours came up.
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Jul 5, 2018 17:36
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The probability of reaching mainlander with dodgy visa status in Canada is pretty high (lol??)
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Spotted this in the UK TV thread, might be of interest to some as I know this subject has come up in here recently. WeAreTheRomans posted:Holy poo poo, theres a Ch4 show called Celebrity Sextortion about a guy who got recorded wanking on his webcam and got blackmailed. And he's hosting the show!
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What's the most painful way to waste the time of the robocallers? I'm getting them every other day now, of course spoofing my area code and I decided to ask today if I could get off their list and the guy said 'gently caress you rear end in a top hat' and hung up. Or is the best way simply following the algorithm of "Are you expecting a phone call today / do you have kids that might be emergency calling?" and if the answer is "no" then letting it go to voicemail?
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movax posted:What's the most painful way to waste the time of the robocallers? I'm getting them every other day now, of course spoofing my area code and I decided to ask today if I could get off their list and the guy said 'gently caress you rear end in a top hat' and hung up. Lenny is a great bot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k It's a series of prerecorded messages that trigger whenever there's a gap in the conversation, designed to keep them in the telemarketer script as long as possible. There's a guy with a ton of lennybots set up, and you can set things up to forward to Lenny from your phone Tunicate fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 10, 2018 |
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movax posted:
This is what I do. If it's not a number I recognize, it goes to voicemail. If they don't leave a message, it wasn't important.
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MightyJoe36 posted:This is what I do. If it's not a number I recognize, it goes to voicemail. If they don't leave a message, it wasn't important. Same. If the number doesn’t show a name from my address book, it doesn’t get answered. If it’s someone that legitimately needs to speak with me, they’ll leave a message. It’s too bad that it’s come to this, you’d think there would be a technological fix, but the present telephone system is a steaming pile of fuckwads.
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Similarly, everyone under a certain age being confused that serial killers were ever a thing because what, people used to just answer their doors?
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movax posted:What's the most painful way to waste the time of the robocallers? I'm getting them every other day now, of course spoofing my area code and I decided to ask today if I could get off their list and the guy said 'gently caress you rear end in a top hat' and hung up. I called that FCC number or whatever it was. I posted it a few pages back and it's actually worked wonders on my robocall bullshit
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BiggerBoat posted:I called that FCC number or whatever it was. I posted it a few pages back and it's actually worked wonders on my robocall bullshit I've been reporting numbers on the website for weeks. Have not felt any reduction in robocalls.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I've been reporting numbers on the website for weeks. Have not felt any reduction in robocalls. Did you re-register your number? It expires after 36 mos I think.
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Jul 11, 2018 03:39
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Proteus Jones posted:Did you re-register your number? It expires after 36 mos I think. I registered less than 36 months ago, and I confirmed that it was registered before I started complaining.
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Robocalls are difficult to deal with because there's a spoofing arms race right now. I think a lot of them are also international so the FCC can't do much more than just  and wish they could do something about it.Lately I've been getting random robocalls that don't even say what they're selling. The voicemail basically just starts mid sentence and then says "Press 2 to be placed on our do not call list!" then spouts some other bullshit. I don't even know what the calls are about. It's just the same recording of a lady telling my voice mail to press 2.
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I got the dumbest robocall the other day. This guy in a weird synthesized voice tells me he's an officer with the internet security force and there's been strange activity on my IP address. I need to call them before they block it. Then he says something about blocking my landline. A woman's voice then gives me a number to call, and then says that if I want to be put on their do not call list, to press 2. I felt like I was listening to a neural network which was trained on a couple of scams and then set loose upon the world. 
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It's intentional. They only want the truly gullible to call back, the last thing they want is to spend half an hour on the phone with a victim that realizes the IRS doesn't usually accept payment in the form of iTunes gift cards.
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Proteus Jones posted:Did you re-register your number? It expires after 36 mos I think. Website says: Uncle Sam posted:Registrations on the National Do Not Call Registry DO NOT EXPIRE. If you have previously registered your number, there is no need to register again. Been registered since 2008. gently caress telemarketers / robot-callers. They don't cost anyone important any money so nothing will ever happen.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I got the dumbest robocall the other day. Hey, I got one like that several months ago! But what would happen if somebody complied with the internet security force and hit 2?
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I wonder if hitting 2/take me off the list just marks you as a live/responsive number (obviously not taking you off), or would that happen if you picked up in the first place?
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That's exactly what it's for. Pressing 2 shows you answered, and despite all the information out there telling you not to believe scammers saying you'll be taken off a list - you did it anyway. Flags you as a mark, rather than wasting time with people who have any skepticism.
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