mjzee Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 I thought I'd start keeping a running list of the locations shown on my phone screen from obviously spammy calls. Walnut Cove, NC (sounds really nice, doesn't it?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted April 14, 2021 Report Share Posted April 14, 2021 Hungry Horse, Montana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 I wonder if anyone will get one from Yeehaw Junction, Florida? I will have to start jotting them down before deleting them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 I like the ones that have real names, the ones that are like, oh wow, hey, person, you know when you dropped your land line and thought it all went away? Apparently not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 I get them from whole states:Â "State of Texas," for example. Damn! Must be a hell of a conference call! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 They mean "state" as in mental condition. Those are the ones you stop before they even get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 9 hours ago, JSngry said: They mean "state" as in mental condition. Those are the ones you stop before they even get started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 From all over the place.  I just let them ring. Eventually they get tired of calling my number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 Canal Winchester, Ohio. Never heard of it... Love my iPhone app that routes these bozos to voicemail without ringing, they rarely leave a message, unless it is the last part of the foreign-accented moron's robocall that implies the person is in tax trouble...  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted April 15, 2021 Report Share Posted April 15, 2021 The bulk of my spam calls indicate they come from towns in NY (where I live) or MI (where I used to live). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 I get fake numbers with the same first 6 digits as my cell phone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 A high percentage of calls likel have spoofed numbers. My wife is the only one I know with the same first six digits in her cellphone number. We don’t even have a ringer on our landline, so voicemails die there. We use it for emergencies and finding our phones when one of us is home alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 I almost worked for a company selling auto warranties. They actually told me that one of the principals had invented a way to spoof their outgoing phone calls, so that the do-not-call registry didn't have to be obeyed, and their phone center was rockin'. I was there one night to observe, didn't like what I saw and didn't go back. Less than a week later I saw in the paper that the feds had conducted a raid (during what would have been my evening shift) and arrested everybody and shut the place down. I guess my instincts were right. I thought it was hysterical that they would brag about being able to ignore the do-not-call registry but the Feds figured them out - if you're that brazen. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcam_44 Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 On 4/16/2021 at 5:16 AM, Dan Gould said: I almost worked for a company selling auto warranties. They actually told me that one of the principals had invented a way to spoof their outgoing phone calls, so that the do-not-call registry didn't have to be obeyed, and their phone center was rockin'. I was there one night to observe, didn't like what I saw and didn't go back. Less than a week later I saw in the paper that the feds had conducted a raid (during what would have been my evening shift) and arrested everybody and shut the place down. I guess my instincts were right. I thought it was hysterical that they would brag about being able to ignore the do-not-call registry but the Feds figured them out - if you're that brazen. Â Just out of curiosity, how did this job offer come about? Did they find you or did you find them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 19 minutes ago, jcam_44 said: Just out of curiosity, how did this job offer come about? Did they find you or did you find them? I responded to an ad. At the time I had to keep my days open for Voice-Over gigs and I held a series of phone-sale jobs in the evenings to keep a regular stream of cash coming in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 11 minutes ago, Dan Gould said: I responded to an ad. At the time I had to keep my days open for Voice-Over gigs and I held a series of phone-sale jobs in the evenings to keep a regular stream of cash coming in. So, your day job was at night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Just now, JSngry said: So, your day job was at night! Pretty much. It also wasn't the only time I was involved in an operation that ran afoul of the Feds and was subject to an armed raid of the premises. My first phone gig in south Florida was at a "phone dating/phone sex" shop. Cast the widest possible net by advertising in both hardcore porno mags and also Rolling Stone type general circulation publications. So you had people calling in to be "matched" with "local" girls for phone "dates" but also being "matched" to "local" girls for dirty talk, and since these were "local" women, a lot of calls who thought they were booking an outbound escort, too. (I could have put "girls" in quotes too, as we had one who was pre-op and called herself Fabia, as in the female version of the romance novel cover-dude Fabio.) Anyway I was one of many who took these inbound calls for supposed "matching" and we got a base rate plus bonuses based on whether they were going to pay by charging it to their phone line (.50), call the 900 number ($1) or charge their credit card ($2). I was consistently in the top three of "bookers". I remember the book of "profiles" we were supposed to read from, which had only three. Seems like everyone went with "Sandy" the "hot blonde" for whom "anything goes". Anyway, they were scummy, and the scummiest thing they did was to churn the suckers who called in and had their conversations, by calling them back to say 'Sandy' really wanted to talk to you again, would you like to talk to her?' They neglected to mention that their phone or their credit card was getting hit again. SO - long story short, I found out not long after I left that they got raided by the FCC, with management getting frog-marched out, the owner's Ferrari impounded and towed away ... I held these types of jobs with 3-4 companies in south Florida, from phone sex to septic system treatment systems to vacation sales and all of them either got shut down, were banned from selling in certain states (the septic treatment company) or were seriously ethically challenged (the vacation sales place).  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Whoa....septic treatment by phone sales? How did THAT pitch go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Well I didn't do the pitching, I was in the verification department - calling to verify that they were ordering the product and verifying the address. The pitches I overheard were like what you see on TV for Rid-X but it was way more expensive. As I recall they had a consent decree with several state's AGs for not marketing in those states, I think it was for both over-selling and under-delivering but also for dishonest business practices regarding auto-renewal charges. Google Krane Products.  BTW on the phone sex "matching" gig a big part of the inbound calls were young kids who thought they were going to get free dirty talk. So you had to make sure they were "of age" which I always verified by asking what age they were and then what year they were born. The variety of years they would give on that challenge was pretty damn hysterical. I'd usually tell them what age they'd really be if that was the year they were born. Got quite a few obscenities hurled at me then.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 so they got their free dirty talk anyway! Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Yeah but none of it coming back at them, which is really the point of dirty talk, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Hey, you gotta pay the band, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Dryden Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Parma, ID Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted April 23, 2021 Report Share Posted April 23, 2021 Eutaw, AL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjzee Posted April 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2021 Center Line, MI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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