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Daily. "Due to your excellent payment history we can offer you zero percent interest on your Visa and Mastercard accounts." "Your phone service has been cut off." ect ect.

There was an app that would answer the calls for you and try to keep the scammers on the line as long as possible. "oh yeah I'm interested but can you give me a couple minutes the baby is crying. Thanks ... uh huh ... oh that sounds great ... uh huh... oh yeah" RoboKiller article

I've even gotten calls showing they are coming from my own phone. For a while I was getting calls from "Chicago" numbers where they were talking to me in Mandarin. I'm like you're not even trying to scam me with a language I can understand.

What I really wish is the telecoms could figure out a way to prevent caller ID spoofing. Much as I'd like to screw with them I just don't normally have the time.

Last edited by The_Yoda - on 04 March 2020