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"Hi jimmy, this is your mother. My phone died so I am calling you from the hospital phone. Your dad is in the hospital. Come quick." In the above scenario that
by alharith 7y ago
"Hi jimmy, this is your mother. My phone died so I am calling you from the hospital phone. Your dad is in the hospital. Come quick."
In the above scenario that happened to me, sometimes you just don't have time to let the information find you.
- catalogia 7y agoThat would suck, but fear of that scenario isn't enough to make me answer my phone for spammers 5 times a day.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoAlso, I'd hope they'd have the initiative to leave both a voicemail and an SMS.
- jfengel 7y agoEspecially with a service like Google Voice that will transcribe your voicemails. I will look at those; it takes a fraction of a second to dismiss the spam. Fortunately, I only get a few of those a week, so far.
- BenjiWiebe 7y agoCheck your spam folder. I find Google voice itself is pretty good at blocking spam calls/messages/texts.
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- paulie_a 7y agoWas your presence at the hospital going to aide in his treatment?
- ChrisClark 7y agoWow...
- penagwin 7y agoWhile this is a possible scenario- in my experience most people know to call multiple times - especially if they know that the recipient won’t recognize the number. I don’t usually answer my phone from unknown numbers, but when I get three calls from the same number within 3 minutes I’ll pick it up.
- gruez 7y ago>While this is a possible scenario- in my experience most people know to call multiple times - especially if they know that the recipient won’t recognize the number. I'm surprised robocallers don't do this too
- jon_richards 7y agoCalling once selects for people more likely to fall for the actual scam.
- yellowapple 7y agoAlso, spamming/scamming in general is a numbers game. It's generally more profitable to move onto the next number on the list than to keep retrying.
- gumby 7y agoThey do
- dvtrn 7y agoI’m not getting into ALL the details but the “repeatedly calling” back and forth between two numbers quite honestly kept me out of jail overseas due to an embarrassing miscommunication and unintended breaking of a local law (backpacking in college, drinks were had, a friend made an ass out of himself if you must know) I called a local friend, he didn’t answer. I called his wife she didn’t either. Both follow the “don’t answer unknown numbers” rule. As do I. It wasn’t until I called friend a second time that he answered the phone. His response? “When my wife got a call from the same number back to back is when I started thinking this must be worth my attention.”