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This may not be sufficient; some phone systems delay the disconnect, keeping you connected to the scammer on your outgoing call.
by AbortedLaunch 2y ago
This may not be sufficient; some phone systems delay the disconnect, keeping you connected to the scammer on your outgoing call.
- MissTake 2y agoOlder POTS maybe - and I’m old enough to have experienced that back in the 1980s, but I’m pretty sure that that’s no longer the case today - triply so with mobiles.
- viraptor 2y agoYeah, it would have to be a "real" POTS all the way too. These days you're likely using VoIP under the covers anyway.
- grishka 2y agoThat's odd, I've never heard of this. On landlines I used, when the other side hangs up, you hear the busy tone, with no other choice than to hang up too.
- AbortedLaunch 2y agoIt was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6124056
- grishka 2y agoOkay, so different countries had their phone systems work differently. In Russia, even back when we had electromechanical telephone exchanges, it's always been such that hanging up would instantly disconnect your line from the call, no matter the direction of the call. I just assumed it worked this way all over the world.