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Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by simonblack »

grawprog wrote: post #238
booleandilemma wrote: post #208

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My strategy is: if I don’t know the caller they can leave a voicemail. If it’s not important enough for a voicemail, it’s not important.

The problem with this for me is my voicemail is now so full of spam messages from numbers I don't answer or block that I can't ever get any useful messages if there are any. A lot of the time my inbox remains full and I can't actually receive new voicemails. It's just gotten to the point where the new voicemail icon has become a permanent fixture on my notification bar I totally ignore.

Use the 'this number not in use' tones (http://www.k3pgp.org/telezap.htm) as I described in my reply to 'SomeHacker44' above. That cuts out many (most?) garbage voicemails.

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Post by gandutraveler »

This happened to my gf few weeks back. Number came from some eastern European country. We thought it could be one of our friend who was traveling in eastern europe I'm that week. Luckily we saw her online on WhatsApp to make sure she wasn't the one calling. Quick Google search I did that time confirmed our hunch.

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by gandutraveler »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #26

I started with an experiment about a year back and now I've practically stopped answering phone calls. My phone responses are now async. Just like an email, I look up the missed calls list once a while and call back if I know someone or was expecting a call from a particular number. The phone is kept silent at all times and is on DND mode from the first minute of the day to the last. The only call that passes through…

Exactly I do this too. My friends and family hated me initially but now they just message me which I reply within 4 hours.

During emergency I am not be the best person to call for help. There is 911 for that.

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Post by taejo »

martin_a wrote: post #134
taejo wrote: post #121

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BTW, if I receive spam SMSes on my German number that are sent from the UK, can I report those to the Bundesnetzagentur, or do I need to find the relevant UK authority?

I would just give it a try. Probably the BNetzA knows best who to contact in case they can't get hold of that number.

According to their website they only take complaints about commercial spam. The spam I'm referring to comes from a non-EU political party, which probably makes things more complicated.

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Post by gandutraveler »

Zarath wrote: post #76
Brajeshwar wrote: post #26

I started with an experiment about a year back and now I've practically stopped answering phone calls. My phone responses are now async. Just like an email, I look up the missed calls list once a while and call back if I know someone or was expecting a call from a particular number. The phone is kept silent at all times and is on DND mode from the first minute of the day to the last. The only call that passes through…

My rules: * If it isn't from someone I don't have whitelisted, don't answer it, unless I am expecting a call * If I am not expecting a call and it is from my area code, answer it if I feel like it * Otherwise, if it is not important enough to leave a voice mail, then it is not important enough for me to call back.

Scammers have started calling with local area code. Infact nowadays I don't pick up calls if they are from my area code.

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Post by rlpb »

brewdad wrote: post #286
solotronics wrote: post #262

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There was an article on here a few months ago about how the organ donor system works. If you are on the list to receive an organ you get a phonecall and if you miss this call the organ goes to the next person on the list who picks up the phone.

Given the time constraints around organ donation and transplantation, this seems reasonable. If you only have a couple of hours before the organ is no longer viable you can't reasonably sit around hoping someone will return your call. Ideally, you should be alerted that your position on the waitlist is approaching so that you know to answer any incoming calls in case it's "the one". I have no idea if this reflects re…

> Ideally, you should be alerted that your position on the waitlist is approaching...

I'm not sure the false hope would be an improvement. Unfortunately there are a whole bunch of emotional considerations that need to be made in this case.

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Post by zxczxc111 »

bluGill wrote: post #220
dingaling wrote: post #126

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Intriguing, but in order to lift the phone at the precise time they'd need to have some form of alarm or notification. At which point, their concentration would be interrupted. So really I don't see the point.

As a kid my barber didn't have a phone. He figured if he was on the phone he wasn't servicing his customers so he never had one installed (he retired just a cell phone came down to where normal people could afford to use them for voice calls). A couple times a his family did call the bar across the street and the waitress would walk over and relay the message (he probably closed shop for the day every time that happe…

They're not as critical as you think if someone in your immediate vicinity that the person who's trying to contact you knows how to contact has one...

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Post by malka »

dwyerm wrote: post #299
malka wrote: post #240

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If people want to contact me, they can leave a message on my voicemail. The only people who think "just disable incoming phone calls" is not a viable option either have no decent friends and/or family, very little life experience, or both.

Will reverse-911 bother navigating your IVR? Will their automation leave a clear message? I can tell you that calls from 911 don't come from the phone number '911'.

I haven received a single meaninful phone call in 10 years. yeah if its urgent, leave a message. Else you will not hear back from me.

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Post by mcv »

shereadsthenews wrote: post #5

I can’t imagine why anyone ever answers the phone. I get at least ten robocalls every weekday. I don’t ever look at my voicemail and I haven’t answered a call in ages. Edit: I know I’m not alone because CNN just released a poll with no responses from people under the age of fifty, because they couldn’t reach enough of them by phone.

Robocalls seem to be mostly an American problem. I live in Netherland, and I don't think I've ever had a robocall. Marketers, salespeople, pollsters, salespeople pretending to be pollsters, yes, all of those, but all of them real people at least.

Most of the spam calls are from energy companies selling energy to small businesses, because I'm registered as a business. Maybe I should get a separate phone number that goes straight to voicemail for my CoC registration.

But other than that, our do-not-call regulation seems to be working quite well. Maybe the US should copy it.

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Post by [deleted] »

goguy wrote: post #336
SomeHacker44 wrote: post #198

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Just not willing to do this. I never want to miss a call from someone talking about an emergency with a family member, the FAA calling about an unclosed flight plan, a recruiter (if job hunting), a delivery person, etc. I answer virtually all unknown numbers except the ones T-Mobile puts in as “Scam Likely.” What I do not understand is, given that the phone is a computer, why there is not an on-phone IVR which can so…

How many calls are you actually getting? Even if it's one a day, who h seems extremely high, is it really that much effort to lose the 5 seconds it takes to answer and hang up straight away?

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