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Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by EADGBE »

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.

> get at least ten robocalls every weekday

I always find it interesting how these almost cease each weekend day. Do scammers' charge more to answer a phone on a weekend?

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by cheerlessbog »

astura wrote: post #205
Waterluvian wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be consciously aware of who might emergency contact you anyways. Add them to your whitelist. Edit: all good points. Yeah I guess that is a risk. Also reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/J-inCB3POqs

Yeah, because when your spouse is getting rolled into emergency surgery after suddenly collapsing you'll definitely know what number is going to call you to inform you, so you'll want to whitelist that one. And when a drunk driver hits her car on a rural road in the middle of the night and her phone is trapped in the wreck, you'll want to make sure you whitelist the phone number of the passerby that stops to help. An…

There is usually a setting to allow unknown numbers through if they call again within a short amount of time. That may help with the emergency case.

Unfortunately the 2FA calls for my corporate login seem to come from different numbers each time..

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Post by cheerlessbog »

inflatableDodo wrote: post #132
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.

You mean that musicians would have to be keeping track of time? How very distracting for them.

Their manager can bang on the door?

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Post by Consultant32452 »

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.

Do you have any guesses as to why you've been chosen? I can't remember the last robocall I got.

I'm in my late 30s, have a cell phone only, which is on the do not call registry. The only times I get harassed are when I update my resume on whatever job site. Then for a few weeks/months I get what I consider too many calls from recruiters.

I wonder if we have different purchase histories or something that has resulted in this very different outcome.

Re: 'One Ring' Phone Scam

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Post by wazoox »

black_puppydog wrote: post #171
wazoox wrote: post #159

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Here in France I receive these sort of calls from Tunisia quite regularly. Plus some guys declared as SPAM by the truecaller App I'm using precisely for this purpose (usually telemarketers trying to sell pay TV, insurances or some other crap I don't want). I'd say it makes for about 30% of all the incoming calls. Therefore I don't reply to unknown or hidden numbers.

My (French) phone number is semi-publicly visible, and I've had it for a few years now. I get maybe 1 unsolicited call a month. What am I doing wrong? :P

I get 2 to 3 unsolicited calls a week... I think SFR sold my number, simple as that.

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Post by rgoulter »

ric2b wrote: post #212
welly wrote: post #173

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I don't understand why young (I'm making an assumption here) people don't like making or receiving voice calls. I'd far rather talk to someone than text them. Texting requires far more effort and takes far more time.

I generally dislike voice calls because they take me out of what I was doing and require my attention during the call. Voice calls are useful for things that need to be dealt with quickly but otherwise async communication is much more pleasant.

Yup.

A voice call means they need my attention RIGHT NOW. (This is fine if it's during declared "office hours"). If the call is from someone I know, then it's likely they could have also messaged me or emailed me.

But if the call is from someone I don't know, it's either a scam or they're trying to sell me something. Some situation where they are more prepared than I am. But even then, text can be unambiguous in detail where I might fail to hear something in the call. And with text, I can generally take my time to reply when I choose to, can take the time to consider what to reply, etc. For better or worse, text omits a lot of "body language" aspects too.

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Post by astura »

copperx wrote: post #81
khazhoux wrote: post #64

Similarly, I don't understand why people answer the front door when they can hear or see (through peephole or Ring) that it's a stranger. I don't need your magazines, your house-painting services, your church, or whatever else. If you're lost and looking for your friend's house you're supposed to be at, sorry I'm not gonna be able to help you anyway.

Sometimes a neighbor you haven't met is the one ringing the doorbell. I recently had to leave my car parked in front of a stranger's house, so I rang the doorbell to let them know, but they didn't answer even though they were clearly home. Capitalism might be great and all, but door-to-door marketing and phone spamming have killed reasonable methods of communication. I refuse to let these things die, so I still open…

Might not be polite, but I don't say anything to salespeople and Jehovah's Witnesses, I just shut the door in their face. They disturbed me in my house so I don't think I owe them anything.

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Post by grawprog »

booleandilemma wrote: post #208
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…

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.

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Post by criddell »

ysavir wrote: post #176
Waterluvian wrote: post #164

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Absolutely. The phone system is totally broken. A few years ago I disabled the incoming call part of my phone to everyone except a few family members and my wife. So far it's been great. Everyone who needs me emails me. I've yet to run into a situation where someone I needed to hear from would only call me.

Do you have any concerns over being an emergency contact for anyone? I've considered doing the same as you, but I fear the chance that a I would be contacted in such a scenario and wouldn't even know it.

I'm pretty sure if it was an emergency, they would leave a message. For me, that's good enough.

Once the phone companies fix caller authentication, I'll probably be comfortable letting my guard down a bit. Correct caller ID would make my phone far more valuable and I'm always surprised that the big telecom companies don't compete on voice services more.

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Post by malka »

astura wrote: post #205
Waterluvian wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should be consciously aware of who might emergency contact you anyways. Add them to your whitelist. Edit: all good points. Yeah I guess that is a risk. Also reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/J-inCB3POqs

Yeah, because when your spouse is getting rolled into emergency surgery after suddenly collapsing you'll definitely know what number is going to call you to inform you, so you'll want to whitelist that one. And when a drunk driver hits her car on a rural road in the middle of the night and her phone is trapped in the wreck, you'll want to make sure you whitelist the phone number of the passerby that stops to help. An…

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.

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