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Posted June 06, 2018
Him: "Hello, sir, my name is Laurel, i'm calling about senior benefits."
Me: "I'm not a senior."
He hands up.
It is at this moment, that i realized i missed a golden opportunity.
Posted June 06, 2018
Is this the new version of the IRS/TechSupport/CreditCardIssue scam?
Posted June 06, 2018
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kalirion: Is this the new version of the IRS/TechSupport/CreditCardIssue scam?
See, my father's name is on both phone lines, and he's now in his 60s.

But, yeah, seems like it. The number looked like a local telephone number, but clearly the voice on the other end was not from around here. I live in a rural county, the only way we hear that type of accent is when we see a doctor.
Posted June 06, 2018
You should have asked her if her name was Yanny XD
Post edited June 06, 2018 by phaolo
Posted June 06, 2018
I once "worked" in an outsourcing callcenter here in Venezuela, and we were tasked with calling senior citizens in the US and get their social security number to order them a back brace through their health insurance. It looked like a scam despite the what they constantly said to us, I couldn't get past the first day of training and didn't come back.
Posted June 06, 2018
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phaolo: You should have asked her if her name was Yanny XD
It was a dude, but that's precisely the opportunity that i realized i had missed.
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kizuxtheo: I once "worked" in an outsourcing callcenter here in Venezuela, and we were tasked with calling senior citizens in the US and get their social security number to order them a back brace through their health insurance. It looked like a scam despite the what they constantly said to us, I couldn't get past the first day of training and didn't come back.
Ouch. So then scammers don't really usually know that they're scamming people? Now I kinda feel bad. XD

BTW, congrats on getting out before things got bad.
Post edited June 06, 2018 by kohlrak
Posted June 06, 2018
Whenever some potential customer is dumb, er, curious enough to look me up on Dun & Bradstreet, I get a call from D&B about a week later. "Your business credit report is incomplete, which is costing you business!" Yes, it's "incomplete", and no, it's not costing me business.

So they want me to pay something like $349 in order to fill out my business credit history. If I don't, they simply list it as incomplete, which puts it at some arbitrary lower rating. What the deal is, they charge the vendor money to complete the 'report', and then they charge the other guy to be able to look at the report - whether it's complete or not. So they KNOW it's not accurate, and still charge the customer to see it. Supposedly there's a free way to update your data. I tried it a couple times before I realized it's all bullshit. That part of the website didn't work, anyway. Go figure.

Yeah, go screw yourselves, D&B.

The other one I get is one that goes straight to VM every time - not sure how that works, but there you go. "Hi, this is Rachel. Just following up on that $250,000 business line of credit we talked about [we never talked about anything like that]. Give me a call at [some toll free number that doesn't match the local-ish call number] to discuss..." Sometimes it's "Todd", but usually "Rachel". It's actually done pretty well - the callers do make it sound like we've spoken before. Good for a larf, and at least they're not interrupting me with a call.
Posted June 06, 2018
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HereForTheBeer: Whenever some potential customer is dumb, er, curious enough to look me up on Dun & Bradstreet, I get a call from D&B about a week later. "Your business credit report is incomplete, which is costing you business!" Yes, it's "incomplete", and no, it's not costing me business.

So they want me to pay something like $349 in order to fill out my business credit history. If I don't, they simply list it as incomplete, which puts it at some arbitrary lower rating. What the deal is, they charge the vendor money to complete the 'report', and then they charge the other guy to be able to look at the report - whether it's complete or not. So they KNOW it's not accurate, and still charge the customer to see it. Supposedly there's a free way to update your data. I tried it a couple times before I realized it's all bullshit. That part of the website didn't work, anyway. Go figure.

Yeah, go screw yourselves, D&B.

The other one I get is one that goes straight to VM every time - not sure how that works, but there you go. "Hi, this is Rachel. Just following up on that $250,000 business line of credit we talked about [we never talked about anything like that]. Give me a call at [some toll free number that doesn't match the local-ish call number] to discuss..." Sometimes it's "Todd", but usually "Rachel". It's actually done pretty well - the callers do make it sound like we've spoken before. Good for a larf, and at least they're not interrupting me with a call.
It takes alot of balls and brains to start a business in the US. You'd think they'd know better: if you're not the boss, you're not someone in a position to finish the profile.
Posted June 06, 2018
Two days ago I got a call from our Power Company telling us that they were cutting off the B&B because of unpaid bills and we needed to pay them immediately over the phone or be shut down.

God stepped in and we got disconnected, meaning I had to dig out their phone number and call them back. When I got back in touch they informed me that no one had called us and that nothing was past due.

Here is the punchline. An hour later the first guy called back and started screaming, "WELL!? I'M NOT KIDDING! GET US THAT MONEY YOU OWE OR WE CUT YOU OFF!"

I had a good laugh at that. XD

The bastard did one thing I thought was clever. Some kind of program he had was telling my caller ID that the call WAS FROM our Power Company so I had no reason think at first that he was full of shit.
Post edited June 06, 2018 by tinyE
Posted June 06, 2018
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kohlrak: Him: "Hello, sir, my name is Laurel, i'm calling about senior benefits."
Me: "I'm not a senior."
He hands up.
It is at this moment, that i realized i missed a golden opportunity.
I was getting these annoying calls like once a week. Once I got angry and told him not to phone again. A week later, another call from someone else. I simply don`t answer such calls any more. I think sometimes a computer system calls up and if you say nothing, it says nothing. It never ends. I had a thing done where legally they couldn`t do it, but now I think they phone from overseas to get pass the legality.

I have a phone number blocking and reading system so I can see who to ignore.
Post edited June 06, 2018 by Socratatus
Posted June 06, 2018
i don't pick up random phone calls anymore. if you're not a relative, friend, or coworker i automatically assume that my time is far more valuable than yours, and therefor not worthy of speaking to me until i've vetted you via voicemail or text in my down time. won't leave a message, you'll get no call back, i don't care if god is on the other end.


i have no patience for strangers who wish to call and ask me for things be it time or money.
Posted June 06, 2018
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fortune_p_dawg: i don't pick up random phone calls anymore.
So that's why it keeps ringing.
Posted June 06, 2018
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fortune_p_dawg: i don't pick up random phone calls anymore. if you're not a relative, friend, or coworker i automatically assume that my time is far more valuable than yours, and therefore not worthy of speaking to me until i've vetted you via voicemail or text in my down time. won't leave a message, you'll get no call back, i don't care if god is on the other end.

i have no patience for strangers who wish to call and ask me for things be it time or money.
Yep, same here.

I also love how my phone allows me to mark callers as spam and then I never hear from them again.
Posted June 06, 2018
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kohlrak: Him: "Hello, sir, my name is Laurel, i'm calling about senior benefits."
Me: "I'm not a senior."
He hands up.
It is at this moment, that i realized i missed a golden opportunity.
Over the past couple weeks I've been getting phone calls from local numbers in an Asian language. The only thing I recognize in it is the phrase DHL. So some kind of scam involving a package. One of my co-workers speaks Cantonese and he said he doesn't know the language used on the phone. He thinks it's Mandarin. They're persistent. I've had probably 7 of these calls in the last 2 weeks.
Posted June 06, 2018
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tinyE: Two days ago I got a call from our Power Company telling us that they were cutting off the B&B because of unpaid bills and we needed to pay them immediately over the phone or be shut down.

God stepped in and we got disconnected, meaning I had to dig out their phone number and call them back. When I got back in touch they informed me that no one had called us and that nothing was past due.

Here is the punchline. An hour later the first guy called back and started screaming, "WELL!? I'M NOT KIDDING! GET US THAT MONEY YOU OWE OR WE CUT YOU OFF!"

I had a good laugh at that. XD

The bastard did one thing I thought was clever. Some kind of program he had was telling my caller ID that the call WAS FROM our Power Company so I had no reason think at first that he was full of shit.
Did you get in the punchline that the power was already off due to a storm? XD
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kohlrak: Him: "Hello, sir, my name is Laurel, i'm calling about senior benefits."
Me: "I'm not a senior."
He hands up.
It is at this moment, that i realized i missed a golden opportunity.
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Socratatus: I was getting these annoying calls like once a week. Once I got angry and told him not to phone again. A week later, another call from someone else. I simply don`t answer such calls any more. I think sometimes a computer system calls up and if you say nothing, it says nothing. It never ends. I had a thing done where legally they couldn`t do it, but now I think they phone from overseas to get pass the legality.

I have a phone number blocking and reading system so I can see who to ignore.
That's fine until you start dealing with spoofers, which is what i got in this case. He appeared as a local cellphone number. I bet if i called it, i'd get someone with a totally different accent.
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kohlrak: Him: "Hello, sir, my name is Laurel, i'm calling about senior benefits."
Me: "I'm not a senior."
He hands up.
It is at this moment, that i realized i missed a golden opportunity.
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GR00T: Over the past couple weeks I've been getting phone calls from local numbers in an Asian language. The only thing I recognize in it is the phrase DHL. So some kind of scam involving a package. One of my co-workers speaks Cantonese and he said he doesn't know the language used on the phone. He thinks it's Mandarin. They're persistent. I've had probably 7 of these calls in the last 2 weeks.
I've had DHL packages from Japan and China, both, so i couldn't tell you. If i could hear it, i could probably identify it. Not that it matters, since it's probably a scam. XD
Post edited June 06, 2018 by kohlrak
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