Telephone Hackers
This is a technical article, but I’ll attempt to write as simply as I can to explain how easy it is for a telephone spammer to make calls. Modern telephone systems operate over the Internet. I can take any […]
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Telephone Scams Using Spoofed Caller ID Requesting Gift Card Numbers
I live in a metro area and receive a weekly publication that posts current events around the city. In the paper there is a small section of police reports that have been made to local authorities that warrant being […]
Vehicle Service Department Spam
I received a call form “Dealer Processing” which was very similar to this recording: It actually may have been the exact same recording. I said NO to the question about owning the car but it still said fantastic and […]
Tax Scam Robocalls
It’s that time of year again, tax time! This makes it a great time to attempt pulling off bogus tax scams like the one heard in this recording: The IRS doesn’t make calls using robots and this […]
“Ringless” Voicemail
Has your cell phone rang from an unknown number and when you answer no one is there yet a few minutes later you’ve got a voicemail? Welcome to the fun new technique of “ringless” voicemail. The concept here is […]
What is a Robocall?
A “robocall” is a robot caller that is made by a computer system setup in such a way that it will call through a list of predefined numbers (leads) or it could just dial numbers sequentially (cold call) and […]
Stop Calling!
The first step is to identify what type of calls you’re receiving and what entity is making them and on behalf of whom. In my experience there are two reasons a call would be made to a prospective client. […]