Just a sampling from last week. Every single one of these is the same scam. I had another seven yesterday.

I never answer and they always leave the same prerecorded voicemail message (although that message seems to change every few days) about me owing taxes, which I absolutely don’t.

I also get most of them within an hour, which makes it even more annoying.

And yes, I’m on the do not call list.

Someone please make it stop!

    • FiveMacs
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      48 hours ago

      Yeah…don’t ever answer scam calls even if you wanna make some dumb tiktiok brainrot.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      49 hours ago

      I’m guessing if I ever answered, they’d call me even more.

      • ElderReflections
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        88 hours ago

        Can confirm. I used to answer the calls to waste their time, ask them to hold while I go take a shit etc. I started to get more calls after doing this, until about a week in when the scammer told me to fuck off and stop wasting his time! After that, not so many calls.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          48 hours ago

          The voicemails are prerecorded, so I wonder if you ever actually talk to a human or just enter your bank details via the number pad?

          • Nougat
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            38 hours ago

            They’ll generally instruct you to press some number on the keypad to be “connected to an agent.” That’s the live person who will try to hustle you.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 hours ago

        I answer unknown calls and then immediately mute my mic. Most of the time it’s a bot that might call back once more, occasionally it’s somebody that gets an explanation of why i just made things weird. been doung that for years and now I only get spam calls maybe once or twice a month tops, if even that much

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          16 hours ago

          How do they get an explanation if you mute your mic?