[FRIAM] do you answer those phone calls?

[Frank Wimberly]

I use Google call screening which asks the caller to say their name and
reason for calling.  If they say anything I see a transcript and I can
answer immediately.  Most calls from numbers I don't recognize result in
hangups.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 2:42 PM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
wrote:

> Our phone service here (in N. Carolina) includes caller id by voice —
> which is generated by a text-to-voice program that hilariously garbles the
> text. It seems like state of the art circa 1990.
>
> Back when there were humans on the line (usually trying to pump stocks),
> I’d say hello and then carefully lay the handset on my desk. After about 40
> seconds I could faintly hear “Barry, … Barry? Barry? Click” I wasn’t
> keeping track, but my sense is that the number of those calls went down.
>
> The only number I give out now is my cell phone, which is relatively
> immune to these calls. For the moment, anyway.
>
> —Barry
>
> On 4 Oct 2021, at 12:24, uǝlƃ ☤>$ wrote:
>
> Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/03/who-scams-the-scammers-meet-the-amateur-scambaiters-taking-on-the-crooks
>
> Story: When Renee' and I first got the new phone number here in Oly, the
> calls were non-stop, 10-20 per day on the landline. I just removed the
> phone from my office and don't look at or check messages on the landline
> anymore. But I finally bit the bullet and started answering every call. And
> talking to whoever was there. If I had to push a button to get to a human,
> I pushed the button. If I had to talk to a robot for awhile in order to get
> to a human, I talked to the robot. After about a week of this, the calls
> started to fade. After about a month, we were down to 1-3 calls per day.
> Now we're down to maybe 2-3 per week.
>
> It works to simply waste their time. And it works whether their
> "legitimate" life insurance salespeople or scammers.
>
> --
> "Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie."
> ☤>$ uǝlƃ
>
>
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