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I am from Brazil, and phone-based scams are VERY common... after my parents fell in two different ones, they started to always answer the question "Who is it?"
by speeder 11y ago
I am from Brazil, and phone-based scams are VERY common... after my parents fell in two different ones, they started to always answer the question "Who is it?" when someone called, with the reply: "Who you want to reach?"
Some people DO get very pissed off, but never it was someone worth interacting with in first place, so...
- jessaustin 11y agoJust so we understand, your parents would answer the phone, say "hello", and the person who placed the call would then say "who is this?", really? That seems quite rude to me. We don't carry phones for the purpose of sudden challenges to our identity! I have gotten that sort of "who is this?" call before, but I just hung up.
- Tehnix 11y agoI think he is saying that his parents' are responding with "Who do you want to reach" when prompted with "Who is this?". If you call a home phone and someone responds with "Hello" then it can be quite difficult to guess who you reached. Also, it's probably more "Hi, this is Mr XXX, who am I talking to?".
- gknoy 11y agoThe caller should be saying, "Hello, this is X, may I talk to Y?"
- rkuykendall-com 11y agoCould just be lost in translation. You'd never hear that in the US, but you might hear "Hi, this is James from Chase Bank, may I ask who I'm speaking with?" which is the same question asked politely.