<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last one I talked to I just said “Do you really want to do this?” and they hung up immediately on me. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">MMC<br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24 Feb 2022, at 6:41 pm, Damien Gardner Jnr <<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" class="">rendrag@rendrag.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">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.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I answer easy 10 calls a day, 9 of them hang up at 4 seconds.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">—DG</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 7:10 pm, Rob Thomas <<a href="mailto:xrobau@gmail.com" class="">xrobau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Can I *please* encourage everyone to answer any suspicious call, wait<br class="">
a few seconds, and then hang up. This does a couple of things.<br class="">
<br class="">
1. It tells us (the carriers) that it's a suspicious call. We have<br class="">
reports on short-length calls, and if one of our clients is making 10k<br class="">
calls a day, of which 80% are 2 seconds long, that rings many MANY<br class="">
alarm bells.<br class="">
2. Even if it's a carrier who is fast asleep, they're still going to<br class="">
charge the scammer for an answered call. No-one's getting free calls,<br class="">
no matter who they're dealing with. Answering the call, even for a few<br class="">
seconds, means it's costing them money.<br class="">
<br class="">
If it's NOT a scam call, and it's a real person, they'll call back. If<br class="">
it's a scam call, the auto-dialler will mark it as 'scammed', and move<br class="">
on to the next person.<br class="">
<br class="">
Feel free to share this around - this isn't rocket science, but if<br class="">
people don't know, they're not going to do it.<br class="">
<br class="">
tl;dr: Answer the scam call, wait 2 seconds at least, hang up.<br class="">
<br class="">
--Rob<br class="">
<br class="">
<br class="">
On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 at 12:58, Kai <<a href="mailto:vk6ksj@westnet.com.au" target="_blank" class="">vk6ksj@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br class="">
><br class="">
> Just got a call on "0432 383 486" from "Alex Watson from Telstra, about<br class="">
> critical warning messages seen from my account recently".<br class="">
> Alex had a moderate Indian accent.<br class="">
><br class="">
> I asked for his Telstra staff ID and he hung up. Hahaa.<br class="">
><br class="">
> Just hope the next person they call doesn't think it's legit and end up<br class="">
> scammed.<br class="">
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class="">Damien Gardner Jnr<br class="">VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br class=""><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank" class="">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - <span class=""><a href="http://www.rendrag.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><u class=""><br class=""></u></span>--<br class="">We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br class=""> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br class="">We danced among the lightning bolts,<br class=""> and tore the world asunder</p></div></div>
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