Must be a new phone scam.
#1
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: SW Michigan
Posts: 5,166
Must be a new phone scam.
Not sure if this is new or not. But I received a phone call today and I read it as a local call and when I answered it it was spam so I hung up. Is this something new or has it been around? This has also happened at work where it was a local call. But it ended up being spam. The numbers must be rerouted?
#2
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
Posts: 11,334
We have now begun to get calls from our old area code, since we have moved. If I answer and say hello and someone doesn't respond immediately, I hang up. We don't answer from area codes we don't recognize. If it is a real person they can leave a message. We have cell phones only, no house phone since we moved.
#4
Yes, I'm getting those also. I don't answer anything that I don't recognize or already have programmed in my phone as a contact. Anyone who is not a contact can leave a message. I got a message the other day that said since I stayed in their hotel recently I have won a cruise. Well let me tell you .... the last time I stayed in any hotel/motel was about 30 years ago!
#6
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Southern United States
Posts: 481
I also got spam that showed up as my own phone number! Direct Tv has been trying to get us back for two years now. They have recently resorted to calling us on numbers that come up with our area code and the name of the city/area we live in. I have an answering machine so I don't pick up the phone unless I recognize the number.
#7
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Florida
Posts: 5,967
Ever since my home number became my cell number and we got rid of our land line, I have gotten calls from "home" on my cell phone. Same number. I don't answer anything from someone I don't know. They have to leave a message if they want to talk to me.
#10
The latest one I got was from the electric company calling to discuss the excess charges that were made on my bill, and they have been trying to get in touch with me for over a week. Uh huh....
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