A lot of auto-dialers listen for that and will mark you as a fax machine and take your number out of the pool. Also will normally be a short call so to Rob’s point it’ll get marked.
Last one I talked to I just said “Do you really want to do this?” and they hung up immediately on me. MMC > On 24 Feb 2022, at 6:41 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just answer all calls and say nothing. Actual legit people can’t take the > silence and go ‘Uhhh hello?’ Scammers think they hit voicemail or something > and hangup at the 4 second mark. > > I answer easy 10 calls a day, 9 of them hang up at 4 seconds. > > —DG > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 7:10 pm, Rob Thomas <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > <https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > <https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> > -- > Damien Gardner Jnr > VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> - http://www.rendrag.net/ > <http://www.rendrag.net/> > -- > We rode on the winds of the rising storm, > We ran to the sounds of thunder. > We danced among the lightning bolts, > and tore the world asunder > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
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