New scam calls about being dropped from Medicare.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Got one on the voice mail this morning. threats to be dropped from Medicare unless I call them back by pressing 1.

Or 9 to remove number from their call list.

which kind of tipped their hand. sheesh.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. I've screened out a bunch of those in the last couple of weeks.

[2naSalit]

2. Much of the time I will

open my phone but make no sound while I wait 15 seconds then hang up. I wait a few minutes and then call the number back. I often get "number disconnected" notices and sometimes it's some unsuspecting individual who has no idea their number is being used for such scams. I also will google some numbers only to find they've been reported already.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Good idea.

So just called the number back. "Not in service"
they show spoofed numbers when they robo-call, so you can't track 'em down.

[2naSalit]

9. They are often localized to your number so it looks like a local call.

If there is no human, they often think it's not a valid #, a robot will hang up after 15 - 30 seconds anyway if there's no sound. I get fewer of them since I started doing that.

I did like that one video that I saw here on DU last week where some techie set up a robocall return to the scammers and shut them down as ever number they used was then used as a callback with constant computer dialing so that the scammers couldn't call out or get incoming calls, it was righteous.

[zipplewrath]

3. I got one too, a live caller though

Said I was in danger of losing my Medicare. Which I found funny since I'm not on medicare. I asked about that little detail and he hung up. Of course my SPOUSE is on medicare but they didn't seem to know that.

[TexasBushwhacker]

4. I'm getting a lot of scam calls claiming to be from Social Security

They are robocalls from local numbers that go straight to my voice mail but tell me to call a "700" area code number. Turns out it's a scam.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Noticed the calls are being Masked using

South Dakota and Kansas numbers . Seems to be a pattern,once you block those numbers,then the East Coast Numbers start in.

[gratuitous]

6. Press 1 to be connected

DUMBASS SCAMMER: "This is Alex, to whom do I have the pleasure of speaking with today?"

INNER VOICE: Oh, Alex (which I know is not your real name, Sanjay), this isn't going to be pleasurable for you at all.

ME: "What? Are you drunk? You sound like you're drunk or on drugs."

DS: "What?"

ME: "I think you're drunk! Let me talk to your supervisor! Now."

The call is usually over by this point, but I keep hammering on the dingbat being drunk or on drugs and demanding to speak to a supervisor. Then I block the number and delete all logs of the call, and go on my merry way.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Getting some fun out of it is almost worth the price of being called.

Almost.

[peggysue2]

10. Do these calls Come Up on ID as SSI?

If so, I've received about a dozen. I don't pickup this type of call and on this one they never leave a message.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. I can see phone numbers on my phone.

they are not "real" numbers thno...the art of pasting spoofed numbers is quite developed by now, so the look up thing on our phones is not as valuable now.

[peggysue2]

12. Thanx!