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You've hit the nail on the head- thats the problem- the number isn't real. I have gotten at least half a dozen callbacks/texts asking "who dis" or "why did you
by S_A_P 8y ago
You've hit the nail on the head- thats the problem- the number isn't real. I have gotten at least half a dozen callbacks/texts asking "who dis" or "why did you call me"? when the reality is my number ended up in the robodialer spooferator 5000 number generator. The only way to really stop it would be for everyone to stay on the line and waste the telemarketers/scammers time until they realized they had no viable business. Unfortunately, that is a really hard problem to solve.
- pandaman 8y agoThis is exactly what I do and it does appear to reduce the number of calls significantly - I get two or three a day between my two cell numbers and work phone but not every day. I also noticed scammers are trying to counter it by asking to press multiple keys e.g. a recent "final courtesy call about your extended car warranty" first asked to press 1 to talk to the operator, than it asked to press 3 if my car had some number of miles then it just asked to press 8 without any other prompts. So people getting to the operator seems to hurt them if they are willing to drop a certain number of potential chumps who will mess up multiple phone prompts.
- 0x00000000 8y agoMany voip services just fucking make up a number (or derive it somehow, but incorrectly) when numbers show as blocked or 'unknown' on normal lines. It's incredibly misleading and annoying, so even legitimate calls from blocked numbers get people calling some random person back.
- Scoundreller 8y agoA lot of the robocallers just play a pre-recorded message asking you to call back. That’s when the flooding works. A lot of the scammers are just call-centres that outsource the lead generation. By flooding the call-back number, their campaign that they paid for goes down the drain.