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Title: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: EEEEEEP on October 11, 2017, 08:07:28 pm: So we ALL know those people who call and say that "you can get a free holiday" or that you need to confirm an order for "insert product".

There are even more evil scams such as the ones that tell you'll go to jail if you don't pay up (from the "ATO" ) or people that tell you that you need to confirm details for the police (as you have "done a crime"). >> fairly recent ones albeit.

My go to method is to waste their time and then hang up.

What's yours? Do you annoy them? Do you call them names? Do you swear at them?
**Let's be honest **
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: beatroot on October 11, 2017, 08:20:56 pm: I'll change the pitch of my voice and claim that I'm a 12 year old. They know they can't scam a minor.
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: blasonduo on October 11, 2017, 08:33:02 pm: I am very similar, I play dumb for as long as I can. The more time I waste, the less time they have to scam someone else who would fall for it.
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: Coffee on October 11, 2017, 08:48:32 pm: I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognise. ;)
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: Joseph41 on October 11, 2017, 08:58:15 pm: Quote from: Coffee on October 11, 2017, 08:48:32 pm
I don't answer calls from numbers I don't recognise. ;)

I don't answer calls from numbers I *do* recognise.
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: Coffee on October 11, 2017, 08:59:20 pm: Quote from: Joseph41 on October 11, 2017, 08:58:15 pm
I don't answer calls from numbers I *do* recognise.
Honestly, guilty of that too. :-[
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: Sine on October 11, 2017, 09:14:58 pm: I don't answer calls
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: zofromuxo on October 11, 2017, 09:26:05 pm: It depends.
If I'm bored and have time, I'll scam them as well.
If neither of those conditions are available, then I'll answer a question they ask and then half-way through my answer I cut the call off and block the number. :)

People fall for scams because they typically rely on emotions particularly phone ones. Now phishing emails, those are a whole different beast.
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: bundahboy on October 11, 2017, 09:35:19 pm: You are strongly advised to take a geez ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4HKOWG2oEA
Title: Re: How do you deal with people who try to scam you on the phone?
Post by: GalacticProcess on October 11, 2017, 09:43:10 pm: Quote from: bundahboy on October 11, 2017, 09:35:19 pm
You are strongly advised to take a geez ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4HKOWG2oEA
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