I think I put my relative no. on the Do Not Call list and today many years later they have the phone off the hook most of the time because there is too many calls from advertisers.
Are these caller actually scammers? Isn't the Do Not Call list is a register for legit business to not call.
If they have a landline put in an answering machine. Let calls go through to the machine. Most scammers hang up when they hit a machine. Although we did get a few messages in one of the Asian languages. Tell the friends to yell out so you can pick up.
You can check if your relative is still on the Do Not Call Register at:
https://www.donotcall.gov.au/consumers/check-your-numbers/
I usually check each year I am still on it.
How do you decide which letters you capitalise?
I think it is a hidden code/message
Also, I tried Donut call but nothing ever arrived. lol
Your post is full of holes.
I accidentally went to Bonut call and the scammer sold me a truck load of used bonuts.
Never tyre of this thread.
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I think you need to check the do not call register to ensure you think you did or think you did not think.
I don't know which email I used..
So the only thing you know is that you do not know, so put the number on the list again.
“Legit business” I think is the answer here… if they are legit, they will adhere to this list. Most businesses aren’t.
I have a phone number that I have NEVER given out, and I still get calls on it.
Ever wondered what those calls you got that when you answered they just hung up? This is a robo-dialer checking for connected numbers. If you pick up, it marks it as a good number and you go on the database as a live number.
excellent info.
I was i the middle of editing… but I was going to add…
Your number can also be linked to the previous owner of the number… I constantly get calls for the guy who must have owned my number 15 or so years ago. They call me and ask for the same guy. So I am guessing he was on some client list that got sold and bought by these marketing companies (seems to be whatever incentive the government is giving away in Victoria. Solar, batteries, water heaters, etc…)
Another way they get your number is through those what seem to be innocuous SMS competitions or "free" raffles they have at shopping centres, etc… If you have to give your phone number out for free… you are the product. You go into a database and this information is then onsold to marking companies who put you on a list of live numbers.
I have two phone numbers. Family and private calls only. The only people that have it, are family (note, I still get "random" calls on it). And I have a "junk mail" phone number. This is for signing up to shit, for work related shit, people who I dont really like (ie: friends of friends "give me your number and we'll hang some time…" types). If that number rings, it's a 100% chance its either marketing, scam, work or some flog I barely know.
Which number does unCLe IaN have? I'm confused.
and what time you answered, and gender of voice etc
The days when anybody was doing their job well have long gone. Too many companies become too big and so inefficient their whole workforce is dysfunctional and disengaged. Same with public servants. When big business are deliberately keeping 30% of their workforce casual and hired through agencies why would people care. This in turn infects everyone else as we get exposed to it. So part scammers, part international companies that don't care on any level about Aust regulation, and part workers that don't care if they do their job well.
My understanding is that the "do not call" register is an agreement between government and the Australian direct marketing association (ie likely to be legitimate traders). If a trader/scammer is not a member of the association then …..……..
I hang up on anyone with an accent
Please use your imagination guys…
I consider myself black banned now… they dont call me.
Generally go with something sadistic like explaining my decision to go through with the sex change might have been wrong. But I cant tell if thats me talking or the medication I'm missing out on or just on of the other voices in my head. Start crying and asking if they have my medication and what they think about my decision is about the end of it and they hang up…. Hasnt failed so far.
Pretend you are in a telemarketing company and would they have time to do a quick 30 second survey from the mechanical sex toy company that has recently commissioned this exciting new survey for select callers…
Pick a story, dwell on it and have it prepared so the next time they call….
Just throwing in $0.02
I would say “I’m putting a curse on you right now, do you have time to hold whilst I finish it”.
Scammers spoofing the lines anyway. Do not call lists just keeps the slightly more legit ones away