Unwanted Phone Calls: A Funny for You

@kareng (61992)
United States
December 23, 2024 3:21pm CST
We have been getting a lot more unwanted phone calls this month and I suppose that is due to the holiday season. The scammers are active and trying to get into your wallet. I usually don't answer phone calls from unknown phone numbers. But recently, I have been picking up on one or two. The last one I answered went like this: Me: Hello Caller: Is this xyz? Me: HELLO! I can't hear you. (There was a lot of background noise like a call center) Caller: Is this xyz? Me: This is not xyz and I have had this phone number for over 25 years. Caller: This is not xyz? I'm trying to reach xyz? Me: Nope! Go back to when I said Hello. My hubby says, "What?" He didn't hear my phone ring. And he still didn't realize it through the whole conversation and says, "Will you answer me??" That had me laughing before I hung up with the caller. Strange thing was that the noise stopped in the background after I said that I couldn't hear him. So it was obviously a call from a call center. Are you getting more unsolicited phone calls right now? Photo Credit: Pixabay, Public Domain
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@Juliaacv (51447)
• Canada
13h
I get spam calls in fits and starts. When I get them I always ignore them and then ask my hubby to block the caller.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
@Juliaacv I only pick up every now and then. I usually leave my volume down or off unless I am expecting a call.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
That doesn't work, they just call back from a different number.
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@Juliaacv (51447)
• Canada
12h
@kareng I know, but it is my little attempt to feel like I am winning. And as long as I do not pick up I am winning. But here it is usually a single person calling, there are no noises in the background necessarily.
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@Deepizzaguy (104231)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
15h
A few calls from persons who claim to be asking me for money for the holidays which I hang up or tell them "No.'
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
Ugg, that's bad.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
6h
@Deepizzaguy Yes, it is not good.
@Deepizzaguy (104231)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8h
@kareng That bothers me a lot.
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@shaggin (72271)
• United States
7h
I haven’t gotten hardly any since the election is over thankfully they were driving me insane.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
6h
Yeah that was another bad time for them all.
@amnabas (14689)
• Karachi, Pakistan
10h
No i rarely get spam calls.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
8h
Oh, you are lucky!
@wolfgirl569 (108252)
• Marion, Ohio
14h
My hubby does that too. He doesn't always see me answer the phone. They seem to be calming down now for me
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
I hope they take a break after Christmas! But then they will probably be wild then with the end of the year and trying to make their quotas.
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@wolfgirl569 (108252)
• Marion, Ohio
12h
@kareng Then they will be trying to get our tax returns
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@JudyEv (342225)
• Rockingham, Australia
9h
For some reason, they've dropped right off here.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
9h
That's a good thing!!
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@AmbiePam (94001)
• United States
10h
My phone automatically blocks suspected spam callers. This has resulted in a Doordash driver or two having to text me because my phone sees them as spam, and hangs up on them after one ring. That would have been funny to witness.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
8h
That is cool when a legit spammer, but I can see where it could be a problem with Doordash!!
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@snowy22315 (182284)
• United States
10h
Not really my phone alerts me to spam, and I don't answer. A few times of that usually extinguishes them.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
8h
@allknowing (137870)
• India
11h
You took a risk entertaining that call We are advised not to take calls from unknown numbers
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
8h
I normally don't.
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@kaylachan (71860)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13h
George has been getting voicemails from people claiming to help us with tax requests.We didn't reach out to any, and maybe I'll hear his phone ring or I don't. Sometimes I forget to charge it or check it when he wants to call family. But, I've been getting text messages from people who claim to be from USPS. And, I don't know how people fall for this scam. First of all, scammers aren't hiding their number isn't even a u.s. number. Secondly, they use the word Parcel, and third the English isn't very good. addationally , they know that you can't interact with the link unless you reply to them and then go back into your text messages (iphone) so it always has that instruction (in better English mind you then the body of the text) Hell, my phone alerted me Amazon opened my garage, and I checked my app for upcoming deliveries. sure enough I had an autop shipment coming. So yeah.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
I wish the post office would do an investigation on that one. They aren't even trying.
@Tampa_girl7 (50541)
• United States
14h
We have been getting a crazy amount of them.
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
Same here! And if you don't answer, they call right back from a different number!
@RasmaSandra (80812)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
15h
No phone and no calls,
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@kareng (61992)
• United States
12h
Oh wow! I often turn my volume down and forget it is down. But all the calling from these unknown numbers is very annoying!!
@LindaOHio (181931)
• United States
4h
No because our landline still is not operational. Have a good day.
@aureliah (24326)
• Kenya
4h
My bank just messaged me that someone tried using my debit card online. The scammers are really looking for money