Dang phone scammers! So annoying. I had a repeat caller on Monday. At least this one makes no pretense of changing the number. They called a couple weeks ago. Usually, when you block one, they resort to another number, and continue calling. I guess my block didn't work. I'll have to try again.
Anyhoo... my phone didn't warn me SCAM LIKELY. That's not a big deal, because it's often not accurate. It's "warned" me before on legitimate calls, but I recognized the number. I don't answer unknown numbers. I just let it ring. If the caller leaves a voicemail, I will listen.
Here's the deal. This one was tricky. It starts out saying, "HM? HM? If this is HM, press 1. If it is not HM, press 2. If you want to stop receiving these calls, press 3. If you want to speak to an agent, press 4."
Well. I knew I did not want to speak to any kind of "agent." And I did not want more calls. So like an idiot, I pressed 3. Of course all that did was let the scammers know they had reached a working phone number. Because once I pressed 3, the recording started on the same loop again. AND I got another call from the same scamming number 98 minutes later!
This time, I just pressed 7, which is the cue for my voicemail to delete the message. I should have done that in the beginning. I don't know if it would have stopped these scammers, but I think it would have been better than giving a response to their prompts.
When I tried to do a free phone lookup of the number, it just showed that it was a SCAM CALLER, and a ROBOCALL. Nobody had left any comments, but it was being reported frequently. I suppose nobody ever talked to an actual person, because they usually leave comments about the entity behind the calls. They probably make money off of selling lists of working numbers to other scammers.
There are worse problems I could have. This is just annoying.
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