Can I *please* encourage everyone to answer any suspicious call, wait a few seconds, and then hang up. This does a couple of things.
1. It tells us (the carriers) that it's a suspicious call. We have reports on short-length calls, and if one of our clients is making 10k calls a day, of which 80% are 2 seconds long, that rings many MANY alarm bells. 2. Even if it's a carrier who is fast asleep, they're still going to charge the scammer for an answered call. No-one's getting free calls, no matter who they're dealing with. Answering the call, even for a few seconds, means it's costing them money. If it's NOT a scam call, and it's a real person, they'll call back. If it's a scam call, the auto-dialler will mark it as 'scammed', and move on to the next person. Feel free to share this around - this isn't rocket science, but if people don't know, they're not going to do it. tl;dr: Answer the scam call, wait 2 seconds at least, hang up. --Rob On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 12:58, Kai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Just got a call on "0432 383 486" from "Alex Watson from Telstra, about > critical warning messages seen from my account recently". > Alex had a moderate Indian accent. > > I asked for his Telstra staff ID and he hung up. Hahaa. > > Just hope the next person they call doesn't think it's legit and end up > scammed. > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
