How to avoid the ever growing numbers of scams that target us

Disgustedman said:
I'm rather upset about all these scammers calling others but not me. Kind of makes me feel left out.....I want to toy with them!!! Have them screaming in anger, frustration and sobbing hysterically. But they don't call me.....šŸ˜«šŸ˜«šŸ˜«
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Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

1-876-348-1712 from Jamaica.

"Hello?"
"Hello?"
"HELLO!!!!!"
"Is this (name)?
(YELLING) HELLO!!!
HELLO! HELLO!
Gee, he hung up.....ā˜ŗļøā˜ŗļø
 

Right Now said:
Taking your advice, why would we trust you to direct us as to how to go about stopping a scammer? You may be one yourself. You may not be one, but how would we know that? See, I am wiser already.šŸ‘
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That's the first thing I thought of, too... and considering the poster never came back after the day he joined *and* posted, you may be onto something there. :ROFLMAO:
 
Yeah, my cell is practically useless. $80/mo for all the calls I never wanted.

Color me captured by the "need" to have a cell on my hip to preclude imagined emergencies that will probably never happen. But so much is keyed to a phone number any more it is hard to break the bond. It's not that I can't afford it. It's more that it is a continuing nuisance.

I'm trying to recall when I got addicted to a cell phone. Must have been early 2000's. Remembering back years prior, never needed the constant connectivity. Really tempting to turn off the cell for the entire month of February and see how that shakes out.
 
hollydolly said:
but really when are people going to learn not to send money for anything.. if it seems to good to be true then it probably is !!
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I'm amazed at the number of people who answer calls from people they didn't initiate a conversation with and send money to any transaction they didn't initiate themselves. My phone is just for my calls only and my money is just for me to initiate spending.
 
I once had a scammer on the phone , I pretended to be Deaf and I kepts saying Hello and getting him to repeat over and over what he wanted , he finally lost patience with me and called me a few choice names then did a mimic of me , it was hilarious and I came off the phone laughing ..
 
Most scam calls come from spoofed numbers - fake numbers that display on your phone but are not the number the scammer is calling from. Years ago I read in Wired magazine that all the big telecom companies like ATT and so on have the engineering capability to detect spoofed numbers when they come in and can stop them from being forwarded to your phone. Later I saw a news article saying the Federal Trade Commission met with the CEOs of the big telecom companies and asked them to stop forwarding spoofed numbers since the telecom companies had the engineering capability to do this and the FTC does not.

The CEOs agreed to ā€œlook into itā€ but nothing ever came of it probably because they didnā€™t want the expense and work of it and because most customers donā€™t ask them to. When I called my phone company about it, the customer service representative was clueless about it and only suggested I get on the FTC Do Not Call list which Iā€™ve been on for 10 years to no avail.
 

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