SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

[Marty_d]

Yeah there was a message from a "female" on my profile too. 

[Jerry_Atrick]

The floozie

[Marty_d]

Probably a male Thai slave in a Myanmar scam centre.

[nomadpete]

I missed out

 

Now I feel neglected.

 

What am I doing wrong?

[red750]

Here's how the 10 or so posts commenced. Note: they have beeen deleted.

 

 Hello Dear .

 

How are you doing today? I would love us to be good friends ,

 

[Marty_d]

5 hours ago, nomadpete said:

I missed out

 

Now I feel neglected.

 

What am I doing wrong?

They feel that a man of your keen intellect would not be easily scammed, so why bother.

[facthunter]

It takes very intelligent people to GET my jokes. Nev

[rgmwa]

No point posting them here then, Nev. 

[willedoo]

I did some Googling and learnt a handy trick for potential scam calls. In the search bar, you type the number in and at the top of results is a website called reverseaustralia.com. It has a forum like format where people post their experiences of receiving a call from that number.

 

I've got to the stage where I don't answer calls from numbers not in my contact list. I figure if they're genuine, they'll leave a message in messagebank and I can ring them back. Unusually, the call today did leave a message. When I dialed 101 to retrieve the message it was an AI generated female American accent voice pretending to be from the Red Energy who I recently switched to as a power retailer. One of the commnts on the reverse call lookup website said the same thing except they said they were from AGL.

[willedoo]

I guess they have some type of spoof software that makes the calling number look like a local number.

[facthunter]

They have a random selection process where there is a delay in speaking for a few seconds and a  tell tale "Fweep" noise happens ahead of the talking. I just hang up immediately.  Never say YES. They can connect that to anything they make up. .  Nev

[old man emu]

My rule: No caller ID, no pick up. 

 

It's inconvenient if it's a genuine call and the caller doesn't leave a message, but I think people are begining to adopt the practice of leaving a message if they have not been answered. 

 

Another idea I have is to text the person I want to call to let them know that they are going to get a phone call from me. Haven't used that trick yet, but it's in my bag of tricks.