telemarketers

[JonathanW]

It is amazing both how smart and how stupid telemarketers have gotten.

Smart, because they went from random calls from all over the country, to calls coming from (fake) numbers in your area code, to calls coming from fake numbers in your city, to now the caller ID showing the caller as a company that you might get a call from in your profession (or in my case just 5min ago, the university my son just graduated from).

Stupid, because all of the calls I've gotten the past 2-3 months are about my medicare benefits, when I'm almost 10 years too young for medicare.

 

[UKWildcats1987]

I never answer the phone unless I know the person calling.

I then Google the unknown number. It usually comes up as a scam or telemarketer. I did have one call me 3 times n a row yesterday from VA area code that Google failed me on.

No normal person calls 3 times n a row though so assuming spam or scam or telemarketer.

 

[JonathanW]

They (or anyone else) should not be allowed to fake a number that they are calling from.

 

[Blue-ish]

Voice mail is an effective tool for weeding out telemarketers.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Google Assistant pre answers all calls from unknowns, ask them what they want, and hangs up on these characters. Meanwhile, Tom Mabe was great.

 

[Deeeefense]

They (or anyone else) should not be allowed to fake a number that they are calling from.

They are coming from off shore so the government can't stop them.

 

[Deeeefense]

I use the Robokiller ap it gets rid of all the known telemarketer numbers and if it isn't recognized it sends it to a voice mail. You only get the calls you want.

 

[kybloo92]

I don't even answer the phone anymore unless it is family. Let everything go to a voice mail. Too many shit bags trying to scam people out of hard earned money rather than get a job and make an honest dollar. CDC was trying to call me last week. Just blocked them. Assumed they were trying to do a survey, in which I would be the wrong person for them to call and answer. AT&T usually puts up "spam risk" and "telemarketer" on my caller ID when calls come in.

 

[BeaveUKGT]

I don't even answer the phone anymore unless it is family. Let everything go to a voice mail. Too many shit bags trying to scam people out of hard earned money rather than get a job and make an honest dollar. CDC was trying to call me last week. Just blocked them. Assumed they were trying to do a survey, in which I would be the wrong person for them to call and answer. AT&T usually puts up "spam risk" and "telemarketer" on my caller ID when calls come in.

You blew it, dude. The CDC was calling you to offer you the position of their new director under Trump.



(It probably wasn't the CDC calling you. Learn caller ID spoofing.)

 

[kybloo92]

You blew it, dude. The CDC was calling you to offer you the position of their new director under Trump.



(It probably wasn't the CDC calling you. Learn caller ID spoofing.)

It was the CDC. Green check mark verified on my call log. The number was 404-806-4811 listed on the tweet from their official X account and this article back in December on their site.

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To inform and engage NIS-Child, NIS-Teen, NIS-CIM, NIS-CCM, and NIS-ACM participants.

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