Probably be careful if you do start adding 3rd party services. Some have been done for stealing your data
I once got a call asking me if I wanted to borrow money. I said sure! He asked for what? I said to buy drugs. You need $100,000 to buy drugs? Not for me, I was gonna sell it. He hung up. I was disappointedâŚ
The unfortunate side effect of the scam calls - every time I get a call from someone with an Indian accent, I am expecting a fraudulent activity.
Friend got a call, husband injured in car accident, taken to nearest hospital. Hospital was private, wouldnât treat him without fund transfer. Her phone was somehow locked, could not contact him or the hospital.
She worked out it was a scam when she asked for the location of the accident. There was no way he could have been there at the time.
That should be reported to ACSC.
I found Pixels have the best autoblocking for spam buIIshit, I literally never even knew when they tried to contact me
Samsung has been decent but definitely donât get everything
It was in Jakarta.
Samsungs is 3rd party and hooks in between the first and second ring. IIRC
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Time to ditch the old business mode of answering calls with your (full) name.
Get the caller to identify themselves
Who answers with full name in a work settings. Itâs always hi youâre speaking to x of travla
Thereâs the old clip of Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Husband takes the call, keeps saying âYou donât sayâ. Hangs up, the wife asks the name of the caller. Husband responds âHe didnât sayâ.
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I did start doing this, then realised most of the calls went to my voicemail, which also has my name - so unless I change both itâs a bit pointless. Up to me I guess.
Another weird one I had was a âmarketingâ firm in India kept looking at my LinkedIn profile every day. Iâd block the individual then someone else from the firm / company would look at my profile. Started to slow down to every few days, but kept happening over the course of around 2 years. Iâm sure it was to harvest information on me, but canât for the life of me figure out the angle. Anyone else had something like this?
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âHi this is Shedwards, please leave your message and i will endeavour to goose step through your problems with youâ BEEP
On LinkedIn?
Wouldâve helped if i put that crucial bit of info in my post hey! Edited (and yes, I meant LinkedIn)
How do we report Dodoro for being a fraud?
Most of the scams are incredibly obvious, but Iâve been getting texts from Linkt (Citylink) that look pretty genuine. I had to log in and look at my account to find that there was nothing owing.
Got left this as a voicemail (translated via Google) from some random number just before
I have no idea about the accuracy of the translation, though.
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If I donât recognise the number, I decline the call. If theyâre serious, theyâll leave a voicemail or a text.
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anyone else noticed the scam calls popping off?
iâm up to 11 since last thurs
yep