- NPR: "Why Phone Fraud Starts With A Silent Call" - 5 Updates
- NPR: "Why Phone Fraud Starts With A Silent Call" - 1 Update
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 26 12:22PM -0700 > automated computer system that's calling your number -- and tens of > thousands of others -- to build a list of humans to target for > theft... Anybody who falls for that deserves whatever they get. -- Cheers, Bev $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ "The almost universal access to higher education here in the US has ruined a lot of potentially good manual laborers." -- Bob Hunt |
| "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Aug 26 04:20PM -0700 The Real Bev wrote: >> thousands of others -- to build a list of humans to target for >> theft... > Anybody who falls for that deserves whatever they get. So, are you saying that you never answer your phone and say something? |
| wilma6116@gmail.com: Aug 26 04:56PM -0700 On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 12:22:16 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote: > Anybody who falls for that deserves whatever they get. > -- Seems able to be said about any crime victim. |
| BigDog811 <bigdog811@gmail.com>: Aug 26 05:55PM -0700 On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 at 7:20:50 PM UTC-4, Bob F wrote: > >> theft... > > Anybody who falls for that deserves whatever they get. > So, are you saying that you never answer your phone and say something? If she's anything like me, she doesn't even answer the phone unless the displayed name/number is recognized. So no, I never answer the phone without saying something - but I never answer the phone unless I know there's someone on the other end I want to talk to. Everyone else can leave a message and I might call them back. |
| BigDog811 <bigdog811@gmail.com>: Aug 26 05:59PM -0700 > > Anybody who falls for that deserves whatever they get. > > -- > Seems able to be said about any crime victim. Yep, pretty much. With extraordinarily rare exception the only real victims in our society are children and the mentally impaired. And dumb-ass isn't an impairment. Almost everyone else gets what they ask for in one way or another. |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Aug 26 08:50PM -0400 >>> theft... >> Anybody who falls for that deserves whatever they get. >So, are you saying that you never answer your phone and say something? I did not listen to the program excerpt but did read the text at the citation, which appears to be a transcript of the on-air news item. I must say that it is typical NPR drivel. The examples are of the extreme stupidity of the calls' recipients and/or the incompetence of some unnamed "generic" institution's customer service types. The only actual useful _information_ in the entire piece is in the last paragraph, which I quote below: >The FTC recommends that consumers "just hang up" on the robocalls. >"We don't want consumers to engage in any way with robocallers," Hsue says. (Patty Hsue, an attorney who leads the FTC's effort against robocalls) > information or pressing 2 to ask to be removed from the list. And in either case, > pressing 1 or 2 basically lets the robocaller know that it's a live person on the other > line who's willing to engage and that could lead to additional robocalls." Seems to me, that's the voice equivalent to the email, "Click this link to be removed from future emails", which simply is a way of determining the email address to be valid and monitored. Gratuitous Aside: I don't believe that my long-dead father ever "answered" a telephone in his life. He simply put the handset to his ear and waited for the calling party to initiate the conversation. After all, _they_ interrupted _his_ day ;-) -- Derald |
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