We’ve all been fooled by something that looked too good to be true. Even though you know in the back of your mind something isn’t right, the temptation leads you right up to the wrong path anyway. Don’t worry; you’re not alone. The problem is that these scammers keep finding new ways of making innocent people suffer and if we don’t keep on top of our game, they will keep hounding us forever.
There is no doubt about it that phone scams are on the increase. These include scams such as the can you hear me?” scam, the free cruise scam, or even a Facebook customer support phone scam too. The problem with some of these scams is that you don’t actually see it coming, so there’s not much you can do in a way of avoiding it. One such example of this is the incredible simple yet active phone scam that’s inspired by actual marketing techniques. The way it works is by first having a machine call your phone from what looks like a local number (but you don’t know who). When you pick up, there’s no one there, so you hang up and think nothing more of it. Well, if that’s what you think, you’re wrong. These types of calls will become more frequent, and they’re what’s known as a “top of the funnel” message. You only need to answer the phone for them to be effective. They are simply there to verify that your phone is a real number in use that gets picked up regularly. That makes you a prime target for marketing too.
So now your number is on some magical marketing list somewhere as a prospective buyer of whatever just because you answered a local area code phone call. You may then start to get robocalls that pretend to be the Federal Trade Commission or IRS. While these call probably won’t fool many people they can become an annoyance. Statistics confirm that around 1 in every 2,200 phone calls in the US is a fraud attempt. These companies have got good at hiding too by masking their phone numbers. If you return the call you got from your own phone you may get a recorded message asking for information, but if you were to call from another number, it may tell you that number is not in service! So, the only real way to get around this issue is to not answer calls that look unfamiliar, and if you do accidentally, don’t interact. One last tip – if a robocall ever requests that you press a number to remove yourself from the list, don’t do it. You are simply confirming that you are a real person.
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