Don’t let your phone carrier BS you. My phone carrier, like most phone carriers will claim that they have no control over the issue with robocalls and tele markers. I get them every day and can not stop them. Most of them come from the United States and are manned by people who will only talk with a phony accent as to keep their identity hidden. Speaking with a foreign accent is also a good way for people to draw stereotypes about people from other countries. I have caught them in the act of this from time to time. If they don’t hang up on you and they get angry enough, they will speak in their natural tongue.
Never hang up on a live telemarketer, for they will take that hang-up as “call me back later” even if you ask them to. Go along with the call and make sure not to answer “yes” to anything. Don’t use any word that even means “yes”, such as “very well”, “offermative”, “maybe”, “please”, “okay”, etc. When they ask you how you are today, say “not well”. Any other question they ask you (no matter what it is), be sure to respond by saying “I don’t give out personal information over the phone to people I don’t know”. This answer will make them not want you. Don’t even say “I’m sorry”. Remorse will give them hope to “get you”.
If anyone calls asking for you, ask them first “Who’s calling” and force them to identify themselves first, and if you are not satisified, Even if they read your name or other info to you, they don’t have if confirmed and they need you to confirm it, but don’t give them the satisfaction. Let them pretend to know you.
Don’t let your phone carrier BS you. They are part of the problem. They sell out your contact info and it goes on and on. Your name and phone number contact info is legally considered part of your account, but not legally deemed as private account information, so they are within their rights to give you name contact info out to anyone they want. All the major carriers the rest of them all do it. This is why you get so many telemarketers, robocalls and phone scammers. All the government bills and laws can’t stop it. The famed “Do not call” list is a list of people who make themselves available for such mailings and phone calls, which is why it’s free. I found that out the hard way and it was too late to remove my name from it once I found out.
There are many types of phone scams. Phone carriers like to tell you that they are working against the practices of scamming. This couldn’t be further from the truth, since they sell the equipment that makes these robocalls and scams possible. They have special interest groups that even teach people how to be a good scammer, and even more so, make apps available for software that enables private users to spoof any number. I sat in such a group one time in New York City, then later on reported it to the NY Department of Consumer Affairs, who told me that there is nothing that they could do.
The practice of spoofing has made caller ID useless, but people will still buy the equipment and services against it. Wireless carriers make you pay for it without you knowing by making it inclusive in a plan with a rate increase, so you don’t know that you are paying for it. Eventually it has become “standard” in calling packages, yet the rates for these packages keeping going up.
The biggest beneficiaries of these services are organized crime groups, vigil anti groups and independent con-artists. I have been invited to participate in one of these groups, but declined. They have conducted communication that law-enforcement can’t even keep up with. This is just another way that technology has been used for negative purposes.
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