@ifgstop5630 agreed!! I can't understand why people have not grasped this concept. If the phone number is not pre-programmed in your phone don't answer it lol. If its important they will leave a message.
You can set your phone to only ring if the caller is in your contacts. Otherwise it goes direct to voicemail. Don’t answer unless you know who is calling.
This is not really an option. You can be called by a delivery guy for a stuff you ordered, from HR departments of various companies if you're in the job seeking process, from the new employees in the company you work for (while you don't yet have their number because they're new), from an army if you've served, etc. Lots of calls from unknown numbers are 100% legit, and many of them won't go through the trouble of leaving you a message in the voice mail (a recruiter will just skip you and move on to the other candidate, he has tens or hundreds of them to call) - so you are missing out by not answering. I mean sure, you cut off the scammers, but you are potentially hurting yourself too. It would be ideal if authorities were doing something about scammers, but alas, they won't bother.
@@k283it IS an option. Delivery people don't really call anymore. And if you order something big like furniture, YOU KNOW THEY'LL BE CALLING, SO YOU CAN TURN OFF "DO NOT DISTURB". it's literally just that simple... Only people scared of technology would say this is a bad idea...
Doesnt work when they are spoofing a number in your contacts tho. Also, spoofed number so how would you know? Scammers are 1 step ahead of you it appears.
I hate that these scammers are so abundant that they have made telephone calls useless as a medium of contact. I get nine times more scam calls than I get calls from people I need to actually talk to. There might be a business or government organization that does need to contact me by phone but there's just so many scammers.
So when you need to talk to someone, and you talk to that person via telephone, that telephone call was useless... because you also get scam calls. Got it. I know you're trying to sound wise and insightful, but...
My response is always anything but YES. "'Can you hear me ok?" I reply ''I can... or...Loud and clear" or "'I am calling for Chris. Do I have the wrong number?" My response is ''Nobody here by that name, or Chris no longer has this number."
I think with AI now, someone can create a tape of "you" saying anything they want, just from a sample of your voice saying any words at all. Maybe we should start disguising our voices when answering unidentified calls? 🤔
@@thomasschwarting5108Simple. It's because people often don't have access to their phones and have to ask complete Strangers to use their phones to contact loved ones. For example, I left my phone in a public place and had to ask a complete Stranger to use their phone to make a VERY important call. The complete Stranger let me use his phone and I soon found my own phone. A Staff Member found it and turned it in for me. 😀
I have a RU-vid channel, so with recent AI deepfake technology, I am quite concerned. I take my privacy seriously. I don’t have any social media apps, so they can’t steal my personal data, but now AI is creating privacy threats in new ways so quickly. People need to be careful.
If I do answer, isally expecting a call from food delivery, find it's not i will meas with them. It used to be the ones from India and Africa. Was called once and was told my friend lost her purse with everything inside, needed to get back to US but needed money. Laughed and told the she lives there now. My friend who is also my coworker was actually sitting beside me. And these AI scams coming up are a doozy. We have always had a certain code in our family to know if it's real. The fact that so many people are still falling for these says a lot.
I've done that. There are solicitor recordings for the police benevolent associations and volunteer firefighters. They are very aggressive, and sound very "military-like" when they call. To find out whether you are talking to a recording, ask an off-the wall question the computer is not programmed to answer, like, "Are you having a busy day?" Or, my favorite, "Are you are a real person, or a computer?" If it's a computer, you will get long silences before they answer, as the system is searching for the most appropriate answer. With AI coming online more every day, there is no telling what or who is calling. We cannot assume it's a "WHO" any more.
@@yellowbird5411 Yeah that's how I finally figured it out too was by asking off the wall questions. The AI giggled, actually giggled! Then I realized it would giggle every time it didn't have an answer to my off the wall questions.
i believe you. I had a random woman ask me something like,"How are you?" I responded,"I'm fine, how are you?" She responded,"I'm fine, thanks for asking." But out of nowhere, a creepy AI voice droned,"Would you like to sign up for Medicare?" I replied,"You're not real, you're AI!" And the phone hung up. 💡
This isnt a new scam..whenever I get a spam call and they ask if I can hear them I say, "who"?? They ask me again if I can hear them I say, " what"?? They usually hang up.
@@EddieLeal I'm bilingual and I have done that one time while I was having dinner with my wife. Caller just continue to do his sales pitch. I just put the phone on speaker and continue to finish my dinner without saying anymore words. At some point the caller stops and asks "hello... are you still there?" he then continues to talk and repeats his question, are you still there? He finally hung up.
Back in the early 2000s, I like to mess with telemarketers using the Arnold Schwarzenegger Soundboard. It's basically a website that has soundbites you can click to trigger Arnold's movie lines like "Who is your daddy and what does he do?" Those soundboard websites are still active.
Why is this an issue? If you don't recognize the number...simply don't answer it. Let your answering service take the call, listen to it, then decide whether it's someone you need to talk to.
See, my phone blocks unknown suspected soam. And I used to ignore unknown calls until having a son with a disability and a million different doctors, appointments, and people from the state checking up on various things. So I answer now no matter what. But once my phone was blocking calls from a medical bill I never knew went to collections and almost had my credit screwed up becuase it went on ao long🙃
The phone companies are in cahoots with the scammers, since it is one of the ways for them to make money. I believe whenever someone gets scammed, the phone companies also have to be held partially responsible, for they have all the tools for, for example, identifying spoofed numbers.
One that is surfacing now is from your bank or aany bank saying by text that your debit card is going to be inactive. Call them and give your CVV #. Nope. I do call my bank and let them know what occured. I never ever call the number they want you to call.
Yup, precisely. Always do that EVEN IF IT TURNS OUT IN THE END TO BE TOTALLY LEGITIMATE. I had a situation occur a couple of years ago where my bank texted me stating that there appeared to be an unauthorized charge on my credit card which hadn't officially posted yet to alert me on my end. They gave me the direct phone number to their fraud department which of course I was totally unfamiliar with because I never used them before, so instead of calling that number I contacted my bank directly thru their main line - which then proceeded to give me the total runaround because none of the agents there seemed to know the correct phone number of the department I was trying to reach. Finally, I got hold of a supervisor who eventually got me to the right person who was very helpful and immediately confirmed that there indeed was a false $500.00 entry for a gift card that somebody charged on my account. Out of curiosity, I then asked him to confirm that the phone number I received on the text was indeed the correct number for his department which I was now in contact with, and he stated absolutely, and that they provided it for convenience purposes so I didn't have to go thru the hassle that I had just experienced. I told him thanks anyway, but for safety concerns I would follow the same exact procedure all over again should this situation ever reoccur in the future. The agent then agreed with me stating "yeah, you definitely can never be too careful these days". And this was 2 years ago where the scamming impersonations weren't as prevalent & sophisticated as they are today.
Yep. If I get a phone call claiming to be my bank, I tell the caller I have no way of knowing you're who you claim to be, and so I'm going to hang up and call my bank myself, and then I look up the number on my phone. If they're legit, they don't mind this.
got one the other day that went like this. They called didnt say anything, then heard sounds of a pipe striking an object, “A woman screams” more blows, “a woman screams again” then silence. Then sounds of someone going down stairs. Then a man hollers real loud "Mark Hansen". After that sounds like someone digging. Then a man said does the name Hernandez mean anything to you? Then something was banging, and the connection was lost or they hung up. This was very odd.
I recently had my credit card scammed for the first time. Over 400.00 was charged to my account at a place in new york. I do not know how they did this. But when I spoke to others about this, I discovered lots of other people have been scammed. My bank covered the loss and I think mostly this is what happens. How can the banks afford such loses?
Your credit card company goes after the bank the scammer was using to transfer the money into. Then it becomes the other banks problem as they were the ones that gave the scammer an account.
A portion of the interest rate is insurance. That is why you should NEVER use a Debit card to make online purchases - your bank will NEVER reimburse you when it's YOUR money that's been stolen.
Last time i didn’t say yes, life spiraled put of control. I ripped a shirt fell down some stairs and almost got bit by a dog. And also my love interest didn’t want to be my love interest anymore. Then I had to chase her down the Griffith park observatory
And this is why I show scammers no mercy when I call them over and over and over and over and over again until they are cursing at me in several languages and then I call them more over and over again.
If you aren't already, Use something like Google voice numbers to keep them away from your real #. Plus you can use several numbers so if they block one, use a different one lol
If you speak multiple languages but only use one of them for legal functions, getting in the habit of using that other language for answers of that nature can avoid the inevitable slip-ups. Not only can it prevent a scammer from exploiting a recorded response (Hard to assert an authority with « Oui » if you don't perform contractual functions in French) but can also help your card issuer to recognise such a scam and alert you to it. 👍
Some phone companies allow charges on your phone number and add charges to your phone bill. Years ago my phone company let someone put a $8 subscription on my phone bill. Was a hassle to remove it. Was for a antivirus, which i never had.
I got one of those calls today. The bot tried to get me to say yes but I have known about this scam for a while. I asked the bot if I was speaking to a human and it response was, " Awesome ". I hung up and blocked the number. NEVER SAY YES!
Our entire phone system is completely compromised. ANY number can be spoofed. We need a new phone system that can't be spoofed and that has a traceable record off who the owner of the phone number is and for how long they had that number.
Fearmongering. "The BBB has not yet confirmed that anyone has lost money from this type of call." 🙄 This myth has been around for years, but still no evidence of it actually having any impact.
Very true. Think about how bad a bank's security would be if all it took to access an account was saying "yes". There are NO confirmed cases of this happening. As prevalent as scams are, this is not one to worry about.
Simple solution: make it illegal to use a person's voice as the sole identifier of contract agreement. But of course they won't do that because that would cost businesses a few dollars more per month.
I like the ones saying that there is a $1200 phone and computer order, and my credit card company want to verify it, then they ask for your credit card number so they can pull the order up on their screen. Really? If they are calling you about an order on your credit card, they would logically already have your credit card number, and the info should already be on their screen BEFORE they call, right?
This isn't a real scam. They even said so at the end basically 2:27. Think about it for a minute - does your bank use a recording of your voice for verification purposes? Most use a pin number sent to your phone or email. Anyone could answer "Yes" and just pretend to be you if that's how your bank did it. It's difficult to exactly match a voice - especially over a phone line. The truth is, whether you answer yes or no, the purpose for most these robocalls is just to establish that the line is active.
I stopped answering those bs calls completely. Rude, huh? As if it is not rude of them to have NEVER ever left any voicemails; so, why aren't I supposed to be rude in return, huh?
I changed my voicemail recording to the recording that you hear when you dial a dislocated number. The robo calls and waits for to see if it’s answered. You say hello and there’s nothing, computer hangs up. Then a real person who is the scammer calls you but this time it goes to your voicemail and that’s the dislocated number recording. The scammer scratches your number off the list and they never call you back
This hit my uncle's company back in the 90's and the scammers took the recording of "yes" and pasted it into another recording that made it sound like my uncle wanted to switch phone carriers (Back then it was referred to as "Slamming" or if they added extra phone services "Cramming"). Needless to say, I got the issue cleared up as I was the only one familiar with the steps to take with the FTC, etc to get it resolved and get a complaint filed. It was a pain in the ass and those scammers rely on the fact people are "lazy" and won't take the steps necessary to fix or resolve the problem once it occurs.
In order for scammers to use your voice doesn’t the credit card company have to have you signed up for voice recognition access and have previously granted permission to do so?
But how can a recording of my voice saying "yes" do anything mentioned in this video??? It's just a voice, nobody even knows what my voice sounds like, so a recording specifically of me saying "yes" means absolutely nothing. A scammer could just use their own voice saying "yes" while claiming to be me, and do whatever they were already planning.
They can't really do much of anything with "yes" that they couldn't do with a similar-sounding "yes". I guess if you had some sort of voice-activated thing, but nothing I've used would respond to just "yes". I don't think any services I've used have voice verification when calling
I'm getting these type calls but they're asking me do I need help on pay my electric My electric bill. Whatever you do do do not say yes or on anything hang up it's a scam.
Crap, I had one of these yesterday from a local number thinking it was my dr office. Couldn’t make out what they were say and said yes then was transferred to another person and they asked if I was so and so, I said you have the wrong number. Won’t answer anymore unknown number.
A lot of scammers are based overseas where the FBI, NSA, etc., have no jurisdiction. Sometimes scammers will work with locals as money mules or something, and they can be arrested. There is also the very sad situation where an elderly or otherwise vulnerable person doesn't realize they have been scammed, or refuse to believe it, even when told by others. Sometimes people are too embarrassed to report it. There are a lot of RU-vid videos where people deliberately talk to scammers to waste their time, and try to get information that can be turned over to local authorities. But in certain places, the scammers pay off the police to look the other way.
I still have a landline with an answering machine which screens all of my calls. A legitimate caller will leave a message. My cell is for road emergencies only and I don't answer calls on my cellphone.
DONT ANSWER CALLS FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT IN YOUR CALL LIST..IF ITS IMPORTANT , THE CALLER WILL LEAVE A MEASSAGE..IF YOU DONT RECOGNIZE THE CALLER IN THE MESSAGE, OR THE REASON BEHIND THE MESSAGE, DONT CALL THEM BACK...if they cant get victims to answer the phone, they cant make any money....simple people.
Avoid saying "yes"...? That's silly. How about not allowing a "yes" as a confirmation to anything legit. There should be repercussions and consequences for any company that can use "yes" as clearance to do whatever...
Wait so what's the actual risk here? Even if they record your yes and try to edit it claiming that you said yes to buying something it would be very easy to tell that it's spliced together. The BBB guy just said "idk they might do something with it" but what could they actually do?
Yeah, in the past, this whole "yes" thing has been regarded as not really a concern. Most systems don't do any kind of voice verification at all, so it wouldn't matter if it didn't sound exactly like you as long as they have credentials If I get a suspected scam call, I still kinda have to answer in case it's work-related or mismarked as a scam (which has happened), and I just don't speak at all for a few seconds. Scams are pretty obvious, and I just hang up without saying anything anyways
This happened to us . We wound up with magazine subscriptions, , a grocery coupon membership and a Walmart preferred status that doesn’t even exist. We were charged $39 a month for each! These things are sold over the phone and you need to agree to the purchase by saying yes. They can do quite a lot with your “yes”.
I don't understand how this works. The news guy just said "yes" on air. And now it is recorded accessible here... Could the scammers just use his "yes"?
I only take calls from known numbers. If it's not on my contact list I decline call; if an entity genuinely needs to reach me they should also have my email address.
Yes to what. How can that be a scam if no CC is given. The fact that some law requires a recorded yes as enough is proof, along with the fact that scam calls have ruined the purpose of having a phone number that the people designing the system arent that smart.
Funny how this popped up in my recommended. I receive unknown calls weekly from the same number with the last two digits different. Today I decided to answer, i was prompted with “this call is monitored and recorded”(literally) after I hear what seems to be Ai voice but it sounds distant as if someone was holding a device near the phone. I stayed silent the entire time and suddenly I get “ due to client unresponsive, our policy gives authorization to end this call goodbye” call ends. 2:08
🇨🇦 here. I received a text in this manner. The text said "tried to reach you, are you there, press yes". Did not recognise the # so deleted the msg.These people are sly like a FOX.
folks should take full advantage of voice-mail... I do not answer the phone for no one who's photo does not appear on my phone... I will watch my phone ring and I will do a search on the number while I am watching it ring...
Can you put the BBB Scam link here instead of our having to hunt for it? You mention it, but it'd be nice to have actually in the description of the video.
Main problem is the phone carrier, they know who is running robo caller business but as long as that business pays the bill the business will do nothing to stop them.
Its really getting out of hand. I started getting spam Facetime calls which i never knew was a thing but i guess these scammers will try anything. I just changed my setting to not receive phone calls or facetime calls from unknown numbers so lets see if that helps.
I don't answer unknown/unlabeled numbers anyway & usually block them too. The other day i got a number with the caller ID spoofed as my tv provider... i know their actual number, didn't answer & blocked that one too 🤷🏻♀️
Seriously, do people STILL answer their phones of unknown numbers? And why does the “scam call” feature only show up on certain calls? If it’s not on your contact list it’s more than likely scam. If they want to talk to me they can leave a message.
