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And I'm sure they wouldn't be pleased to learn that someone is creating a bad reputation for them.
NancyMC, did you get a similar call? Or were the calls to you the ones indicating that the police are on their way to arrest you b/c you haven't paid your taxes, or something like that?
I was bored that day and decided to play along.
When the caller said an FBI agent would be knocking at my door to arrest me I said, “Send them over!”
The caller screamed at me saying that I would be arrested if I didn’t pay.
I repeated, “Fine, come arrest me.” LOL
It is horribly sad when the elderly fall prey to these scams.
This is where all the tech stuff could be helpful: if there were a method to program phones with a response like yours, which could be activated while on a phone conversation, older people might be convinced to always push that button whenever they got a call from someone they didn't know.
I'll that scammer wasn't expecting to be told off the way you told him.
I'd like to figure out how to do that with my phone but I don't think it's possible, or if it is, I probably couldn't figure it out anyway.
It’s disturbing because these scammers are so clever!
The worst is when they leave a message and as soon as the person calls back they get charged fees.
The person scammed has to remove hundreds of dollars off of their bill.
Well, if a person has cognitive decline they aren’t able to deal with having fees removed.
It’s infuriating. We are told to ignore calls. So we do. We don’t answer an unrecognizable number.
So then sophisticated scammers leave scary, intimidating messages for vulnerable people and if they call back they get charged for the amount of minutes they are able to keep them on the phone.
Do not call list don’t help. It’s robocalls. Now they trick people by using the same area code. All scams should be reported but vulnerable people don’t have the capability of reporting them.
Can you imagine, the Social Security card (your card has been cancelled) scammers left messages!!?!!.
Trying to console myself, I have arrived at this: The telephone is for me only, my use only, when I want to call out. There is no obligation to answer anyone's call, ever.
The real problem arises when calling out, leaving a message, the person may call back, does not leave a message. So I had to just let it go, stop doing personal business on the phone.
We were able to receive a call and answer when the doctor called by appointment from an unknown number. Phew!
Boy, were do they come up with this stuff.
So I have to answer the phone. Their number doesn’t show up on my caller ID because they use different telephone numbers.
I get both robocalls and human scammers.
I have an app that doesn’t detect all scammers.
Do not call list doesn’t help either.
At least junk mail can be tossed out. Scammers are a different story.
Even junk mail is an issue for people with cognitive decline. They think that they have won big prizes and so on. It’s awful.