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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Apr 12, 2020 1:23:35 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter.
Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis?
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Post by enigma72 on Apr 12, 2020 1:34:27 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter. Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis? No johnny But my fatherinlaw used to do this all the time. His health deteriorated but he craved social interaction He would pick an area code and make calls until he got someone. He would talk about the weather locale everything. Sometimes he would talk for an hour It may have been like that. Who knows. I always get calls from the IRS that I owe money. Lol |
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Post by Nora on Apr 12, 2020 1:37:59 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter. Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis? as long us u dont provide details about yourself or your loved ones listening to someone talk or join a conversation about corona theoretically should be fairly harmless. |
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Apr 12, 2020 1:38:19 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter. Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis? No johnny But my fatherinlaw used to do this all the time. His health deteriorated but he craved social interaction He would pick an area code and make calls until he got someone. He would talk about the weather locale everything. Sometimes he would talk for an hour It may have been like that. Who knows. I always get calls from the IRS that I owe money. Lol Yeah, you don't think that way with all the scam calls and people trying to take advantage of someone. It could have been something like that. Though scammer use some spoof number. This just said Private Number.
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Apr 12, 2020 1:39:38 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter. Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis? as long us u dont provide details about yourself or your loved ones listening to someone talk or join a conversation about corona theoretically should be fairly harmless. I thought maybe it was one of those calls where you get charged for long distance charges.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Apr 12, 2020 1:51:55 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter. Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis? Actually I've been noticing the calls from India have been on a major decline. I haven't had one in a very long time. The only scam calls I get now are a recording of someone who tries to sound like a real person talking to you. I haven't had any real humans call in a long time. I kind of miss them and the games we would play. I was no pro, and definitely couldn't actually make an entertaining YouTube video out of it or anything. But I did have a few good runarounds I gave them.
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Post by Johnny-Come-Lately on Apr 12, 2020 2:00:02 GMT
said their name was Angelo and then they said they were Thomas, told me it was good that I'm at home social distancing. Then asked me what I thought about the state of the world now. I immediately hung up. Might have been somebody craving for some semblance of normalcy and just looking for somebody to talk to or a prank call. Wouldn't normally answer but it was Good Friday and maybe thought some of my family in Europe was calling to wish a Happy Easter. Anybody else get any weird calls during this crisis? Actually I've been noticing the calls from India have been on a major decline. I haven't had one in a very long time. The only scam calls I get now are a recording of someone who tries to sound like a real person talking to you. I haven't had any real humans call in a long time. I kind of miss them and the games we would play. I was no pro, and definitely couldn't actually make an entertaining YouTube video out of it or anything. But I did have a few good runarounds I gave them.
I'd totally want to play along with these scammers, but always just nope. Maybe I'm just not that funny to play that game.
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Post by Nora on Apr 12, 2020 2:20:21 GMT
as long us u dont provide details about yourself or your loved ones listening to someone talk or join a conversation about corona theoretically should be fairly harmless. I thought maybe it was one of those calls where you get charged for long distance charges. oh could be. never experienced those but heard it can happen.. |
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Apr 12, 2020 4:11:10 GMT
Actually I've been noticing the calls from India have been on a major decline. I haven't had one in a very long time. The only scam calls I get now are a recording of someone who tries to sound like a real person talking to you. I haven't had any real humans call in a long time. I kind of miss them and the games we would play. I was no pro, and definitely couldn't actually make an entertaining YouTube video out of it or anything. But I did have a few good runarounds I gave them.
I'd totally want to play along with these scammers, but always just nope. Maybe I'm just not that funny to play that game.
First, if you want them to play along, you need to state big numbers. Like when they ask "how much credit card balance?"... You need to say something like $400,000. That will get their attention. The bigger the balance, the more they want to get to know you.
Another good theme, is that the person they really need to talk to is not here right now, and you are just a simple roommate/partner who will relay the message. I had a caller from "Canadian Pharmacy" ask for me by name. I pretended I was "his" boyfriend, and "he" was not home. But being his boyfriend, I was concerned as to why the pharmacy would be calling. After a few rounds of questioning about what kind of medication he was on, and why the pharmacy would need to call.... I got into the idea that "he" was buying Viagra because "he" was cheating on me. And then questioning my friendly pharmacist as to whether or not I am taking any AIDS medications. The guy just wanted to sell me cheap Indian Viagra. What he got was a panicked homosexual who was worried his partner had a script for Viagra because he was sleeping around, and probably had all sorts of diseases. Funniest part was when I told the caller I was going to get revenge by sleeping with as many men as I could. He asked me if I wanted to buy Viagra! I'll give him credit and think he was playing along at that point. I was at my local grocery store at the time, and can only imagine the conversation sounded quite wild as I was walking down the aisles questioning about AIDS and Viagra and my cheating partner.
Another good tip is to randomly not understand certain words. I had one asking me if I am "employed". I did a great job of acting like I thought "employed" meant "arrested". We went back and forth about how I have never been employed, and I would have never done anything that would end up with employment. She finally asked "Do you have a job?" Then I blew up and said "Of course I have a job! What do you think I am?....."
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2020 10:34:31 GMT
It sounds like Thomas was doubting you'd hang up on him.  |
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Apr 12, 2020 15:01:51 GMT
Received a call from Stephanie advising me there were channels by which I could relieve my student debt.  I hung up on Stephanie for obvious reasons.
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Post by Catman on Apr 12, 2020 16:48:05 GMT
Catman got a message on his cell phone yesterday which said simply, "The full amount will be debited to your account this afternoon unless you call back immediately." Nothing else. Catman did not call back, and nothing has happened to his accounts (not sure which one the call referred to).
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Post by Firefly on Apr 12, 2020 20:20:35 GMT
I got a phone call from "Mike" with this heavy Indian accent calling from "Microsoft" who detected a "virus" in my computer and needed me to call him back immediately to have him fix it. Remotely. Yeah, no.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Apr 12, 2020 20:38:57 GMT
I got a phone call from "Mike" with this heavy Indian accent calling from "Microsoft" who detected a "virus" in my computer and needed me to call him back immediately to have him fix it. Remotely. Yeah, no.
I never get "Mike". For the longest time I was getting "Brittney" and "Justin". Did you play along with Mike?
That would have been the perfect opportunity for a fun game. I'm sure at some point Mike would ask if I'm in front of my computer. Which I would say that I was. Then very slowly let him figure out that I am actually in front of a Nintendo console, with a retro Nintendo controller in my hand, and Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt menus on the screen. The longer you can keep them going, the better it gets. Always funny listening to them get super frustrated because they think they are on the phone with a complete moron.
Or tell him I can't log on, because my roommate changed the password. Then of course, Mike would ask if I can get the password from my roommate. That is when I would start an elaborate story about my roommate having a serious gambling problem, and a strange car just picked him up and sped off. Or just whatever level of nonsense Mike would not want to hear about my roommate's personal life.
Sometimes these calls can be fun if you're bored and just want a pick me up.
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Post by Pep Streebeck on Apr 12, 2020 23:46:53 GMT
If I was an Army recruit, I would want to go by "Private Yesterday".
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