Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Thursday night around 11:30 I received a call with no caller ID so I dismissed the call. Received the call 2 more times and I dismissed them. The 4 time I decided to answer it thinking maybe it could be a family member. The person on the line ask for me by name and said he was with the fraud prevention department. He gave me an address to verify - it was an address that I sold 4 years ago. When I told him it was incorrect he made an excuse that his computer had not been updated. I ask several times why he was calling so late and he said he was trying to help me as my credit card had just been used at a gas station on 466. He needed to know if I had just used my credit card. Before he could say another word I ask what bank he was working for. He hesitated and said Citizens. I told him that I didn’t have an account with them and he said he must have the wrong person and hung up.
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Seriously— many, if not most, are recorded calls these days. Other than for those that just digit dial, if your telephone number is required when shopping online just put random numbers in... or you can always add the number of a person you really dislike! |
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My new hobby
I get a minimum of 3 of these calls per day. They are mostly recordings. That takes away my usual initial comment. I answer and immediately say "You are on a recorded line, please state your business".....If it is a live person the hangup occurs within 4 seconds. It's my newest hobby.
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You could include in your outgoing voicemail message that all unknown telephone numbers are screened, and it is mandatory to leave a voicemail, if they want to contact you. The CenturyLink landline provider has a service called “No Solicitation”. If the telephone callers number isn’t on your “white list”, then the system doesn’t ring your telephone until the unknown caller hits “1”. Years ago, Digitone had a call screener like that, which simply played an outgoing message to all callers. Then all callers had to hit “1” to ring your telephones. A normal answering machine could be used like that, but then you’d hear the ringing sound from all the unknown callers. If you we’re running a business where you got a lot of unknown callers, then screening the calls with a “white list” isn’t going to work. You’d simply have to live with more and more junk callers. I think it’s unreasonable for myself to put up with hearing the telephone ringing with unknown callers because a couple people are too stubborn to leave voicemail. If those stubborn people get desperate enough to contact me, they’ll leave a voicemail. |
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It’s on the rise.
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If you answer the call it verifies that it’s a working number. I think sometimes the calls continue for that reason. Every single call that comes in from a number with the same area code as mine (out of state), I block it on my iPhone immediately. I’ve gotten less and less calls. If anyone from my past life isn’t in my contact list anymore, I don’t want to talk to them anyway. You can also block unknown texts the same way.
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That’s a variation of the old scam where someone calls you hotel room late at night, waking you up, pretending to be from the front desk of the hotel, wanting you to tell them your credit card number over the telephone, to “verify” your credit card number. Some people are disoriented when waking up, and are not thinking clearly, and give the scammer the credit card number to the scammer that’s pretending to be from the front desk of the hotel. |
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Sometimes the caller is a fake computer voice that can actually answer questions. For some strange reason, I can usually tell the difference between a fake and a real person. If I suspect a fake, I will ask them if they are real and they will say "yes". Then, I say, "what is 11 minus 8"? They never get that one correct.
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Color of underwear is usually a good one |
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The ones I hate the most are when I get a call with MY OWN NAME in caller ID! How stupid do they think we are? Even with adding our line to DO NOT CALL registries we are still getting 6-8 a day on the land line. I have taken to not answering any number that I do not recognize and any without a name showing.
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I had the same. I looked and my number was calling me! What’s the deal? Didn’t answer. When I do it’s a warranty call about a vehicle I no longer own. Annoying
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I have used nomorobo for a couple of years now on my landline. It worked better at first. With nomorobo, my landline phone will still ring once, then stops if it is a robocall. When I was working from home daily from mid-March through early June, my landline would ring 3 to 4 times daily with robocalls. This still seems to be the case.
I also get usually 2 or 3 spam/telemarketing calls daily on my cell phone. I block those numbers, but doesn't seems to help much as these calls originate from every area code and state imaginable.
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