As is true with time share cold calls, never trust caller ID. Hang up, look on the back of your card and call your bank if someone calls you claiming to be from your bank. People get scared!
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Always Hang Up. Call Back From The Number On Your Card
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Just don't answer your phone is the easiest way to avoid the scams.
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So true ... if important, they'll leave a message.
Some of this scammers will leave a message asking you to call a number.
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Their accent usually gives them away.
Haha. I do get some recordings with American accents. With AI, the overseas scammers have solved their accent problem.
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Do you actually call them back?
Nope. So far they have claimed to be from social security, health insurance assistance, and other random stuff. Even when I get a legit voicemail from my bank call to verify something, I only call the number on my card or on the bank's website.
My philosophy is that it is a scam unless I can prove otherwise.
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How does that work? Can it detect spoofed numbers?
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If the call does not match a number in the directory,
the phone (AT&T) makes the caller punch a random
code to show they're a real person before it rings.
A few sales-creeps get thru, but at least no robo calls.
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