Does anyone get many scams on their cell phones?

C50 said:

For the past few months I have received a call nearly everyday from a company claiming to need to speak with me about my loan approval, of course I never applied for a loan. I never answer but they leave a voice mail which is a recorded message that is the same every time.

The numbers vary, as does the alleged state of origin, but I block each number. I am on the do not call list, I have repoted this several times to ReportFraud.ftc.gov, yet the calls continue.

How many different number are available to these scammers? I would think by blocking each number the calls would stop but that hasn't happened yet. I don't want to block all unknown numbers, but not sure what I can do if anything to stop them.

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I have the same problem, except that the phone doesn't ring. But they are able to call "silently" and leave a message on voicemail, or just call and hang up, which I see on my list. One more thing to delete. I can't block them because it's a different number each time.

I would really like to know how many are still getting caught believing these texts and voicemails. I mean, everyone here knows they're scams, so how many fall for them now?

robin416 said:

I would really like to know how many are still getting caught believing these texts and voicemails. I mean, everyone here knows they're scams, so how many fall for them now?

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These guys work the percentages. Their bots text, robocall or email so it costs the scammers next to zero.. Even if they only catch one person in twenty thousand, it's a net win.

robin416 said:

I would really like to know how many are still getting caught believing these texts and voicemails. I mean, everyone here knows they're scams, so how many fall for them now?

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this is the modernized version of the men lining up next to the women’s restroom on Friday nights at the bar. For every 100 women that go into that restroom one of them is going to say yes.

If the scammers try long enough, someone will click on their link and be out a lot of money.

As. @StarSong commented, it cost them next to nothing. So what if they make 1000 bot calls, texts, etc. sooner or later somebody is going to fall for it

I thought it was pretty Balsey to tell me they were from my state DMV and if I didn’t pay a fine, I was going to be in big trouble.

At least the creeps calling me every single day pretending to be a political party (not even the one I support!) have finally let up. I'm sure the calls were scam attempts to either get some money or password stuff, etc. No real political party would keep calling over and over again, getting more ag gressive all the time. They always called me Deborah for some reason, and I started getting messages like "Deborah, I'm getting tired of this. This will be the last time I'm asking." And so on. Different number each time. I suspect they were out of the country, so probably nobody here could trace them.

I hope they finally got arrested!

Not so much my cell phone as my landline. When it rang, Nuisance call came up on screen. I let it ring out then using the recall number found out the caller's number. Following that I searched the number and this very disturbing message flagged up:

There are total of 14 user comments about calls from 020 4613 2010. Last comment has been made 1 hour ago. The overall rating for 02046132010 is Dangerous.

I am impressed with the software in my phone that pre-warned me, but I am also curious as to how my phone supplier or the software program compiles these numbers.

Spoke too soon. I got another Deborah text today.

Texts are what I get. Two today with some kind of warning about my coin account. I can't remember just what it said, and I no longer have them because I always delete those + block, but the phone numbers that display are probably bogus, so I'll still get more. Blocking has sort of been a joke in my experience.

Best thing I could do is put my phone on "do not disturb" so that I would receive no calls or texts except from starred contacts. I don't want to do that because I never know if a necessary call could come through and they wouldn't leave a message. Earlier this week, for example, I had an unexpected call from a man who sometimes does work for me. He usually won't leave messages. I'm glad he was able to get through.