"Can You Hear Me?"

fmdog44

fmdog44

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When your phone rings and the first thing you hear is "Can you hear me?" never say the word "yes". This is how this scam works. The scammer takes your word "yes" and records it then attaches it to a scam that now has you answering "yes" to pay for some scam program. So while most of us simply hang up you could say something like "I hear you just fine", anything but "yes."
 

According to Snopes, it's not an actual threat. The fact check is long, but I quoted the upshot below.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-you-hear-me-scam/

tldr:
[FONT=&quot]The “Can you hear me?” scam for now seems to be more a suggestion of a hypothetical crime scheme than a real one that is actually robbing victims of money. In messages we left with the BBB, the FTC, and the Consumer Federation of America, we asked a question absent from all the news reports we’ve encountered about this scam: “Are there any documented cases of people being victimized in this manner?” We have not yet received any affirmative response to those queries.[/FONT]
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My philosophy of phones is that mine is for my and my family's & best friends' personal use & convenience & that I don't owe anything at all, even a response, to unknown callers.
 
Geezerette said:
My philosophy of phones is that mine is for my and my family's & best friends' personal use & convenience & that I don't owe anything at all, even a response, to unknown callers.
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If they are not in my contacts list (Caller ID) then I don't answer..If they are a live person, they can leave a voice mail!!
 
Ken N Tx said:
If they are not in my contacts list (Caller ID) then I don't answer..If they are a live person, they can leave a voice mail!!
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Same here and I've never gotten an actual message from an unknown number.

The thing that I can't fathom is why the same scammers keep trying to contact me.

[h=1]insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results"[/h]
 
Occassionally I will answer and everytime I hear the "Can you hear me?' it hangs up immediately as if my phone provider recognizes it as a scam.
 
On my cell phone, I have the ability to block any caller. I have an extensive list of contacts on my phone including doctors, dentist, anybody I do business with, anyone who might need to call me back for any reason, the drugstore, all of those kinds of places. So if I do get a call from somebody not in my contacts list I decline the call and then immediately block them so that should they call again, my phone doesn’t ring and there’s no record of the call period, unless I go back and unblock the number!
 
Ronni said:
On my cell phone, I have the ability to block any caller. I have an extensive list of contacts on my phone including doctors, dentist, anybody I do business with, anyone who might need to call me back for any reason, the drugstore, all of those kinds of places. So if I do get a call from somebody not in my contacts list I decline the call and then immediately block them so that should they call again, my phone doesn’t ring and there’s no record of the call period, unless I go back and unblock the number!
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Ditto..I have one number that changes the last two digits !!!!
 
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