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> They chose their victims through information obtained from “data brokers” or from other sources, the department said. Would be interesting to know more about
by jacobr 8y ago
> They chose their victims through information obtained from “data brokers” or from other sources, the department said.
Would be interesting to know more about this. In the legit call center business the phone numbers of people who have previously bought something are more valuable. The ability to target specific demographics is probably a prerequisite for a scam like this, calling randomly would be really expensive.
- supertrope 8y agoIt could be either way. Obviously targeted to specific demographics is the most effective, but phone calls especially robocalls are very cheap. Even ratios as low as 10^-6 are profitable when you make millions of robocalls. The USA Do Not Call list is a de facto live number list. Illegal telemarketers (redundant?) can directly use it as their target list. Another method is to randomly call numbers and mark "Hello?" responses as live.