Oh yes, and that caller is calling Medicare recipients and wants to sell you a hearing aid or a back brace that you don't want or need. They then bill Medicare and keep the money.Does anyone else get the automated robot callers who, when you answer, command you "Do NOT hang up the phone"? I usually say "good thinking!" then slam the receiver down. Who are these jokers kidding?
My girlfriend does that ...uses our county sheriff's name and adds fraud division to it...they aways hang up.
I do it, too. A few of my favorite things to do are jot down the number. Say a scammer is pretending to be the police department. Next time you answer, answer it ("City/town name) Police Department", etc. etc.
If they ask for someone (usually mispronouncing the name), say "yes, they're here, let me go get them." Then yell for them as loud as you can right into the phone. They'll hang up
Wait a few before you hang up. There is usually a "press 1" for an officer or representative.kind of wish it were a real person so I could mess with them.
I actually got a call from 'PCH' saying I won 5 million and a Mercedes (or a BMW) something like that. He finally hung up on me." Don't hang up ! You could be a winner... "
But not if you give them either no or fake information. And they legally can't hold you to anything without a written agreement. Let them try to take someone to court to try to uphold their scam.Like if they say is this so and so and you say yes, they'll add your yes to something that looks like you are agreeing.
Do not ever answer those unless you have a separate email on a different computer just for this.I know they can also do it with emails, too. I once got several emails from myself trying to tell me that I was under investigation and that if I did not reply that a warrant was going to be issued. I do not recall sending that to myself.
Tons of fun....isn't it?I got the Microsoft scam caller one day where they want to get into your computer to fix a fault then they lock up your computer and try and charge a huge sum to unlock it again which they never do.
I went along with it until right to the bit where they give you the password for their remote access program and I said i am a hacker and will wipe your system and servers out in the first 5 seconds..never had a call since. Sort of the slegdehammer effect..lol