At least once a day, if I’m answering the phone at all, I get a call from “say yes” scammers. As I understand it, they want to record you saying “yes” so they can use your credit card or access an account of yours or whatever. I know immediately that it’s a “say yes” call because the first thing I hear is a recorder being switched on. Which is my cue to hang up. But what I want to know is, how in the hell could these people use my credit card or access my bank account just because they have a recording of me saying “yes”? If saying yes will get into my account, why don’t they just say yes instead of playing a recording of me doing it? And whoever they’re talking to won’t know that it’s a recording? When asking the all-important yes or no question, the questioner won’t hear the machine switched on to say “yes”? Can anyone explain how this scam can possibly work (since it obviously does)? Should I worry that someone is yessing all the money out of my bank account?
I never pick up if I don't know who is calling. I can decide if they are worth a call back if they leave a vm.
They would already have to have your card number. They would charge you and claim your “yes” was authorization. I think it’s pretty rare as far as I know.
I should have explained that I use a landline. Cell phones are a pain in the ass. I don't know who's calling unless I answer. These scum don't leave voice mail. But since I use a landline, I guess I'm probably the only person here who gets these calls.
I can see it working if they have you card number. But I don't understand how they could access a bank account, even if they have the account number, just by having a recording of "yes." I would like to think that banks have a view safeguards to prevent just a yes from working.
Your voice, your face, your likeness is no longer secure. Visit your financial institutions in person and have a personal banker, if possible.
. Yes, but my particular phone doesn't have it. With my previous TV (and AT&T U-Verse), the caller ID would appear on the TV screen. But my present TV doesn't have that feature. Or if it does, it's not automatic. I'll take a look at the manual.
No, it has those modern buttons that you press. But there's no screen on it for caller ID. I usually don't even answer the phone because of junk calls, I just check voice mail. But if I'm expecting a call, I'll answer, and it's usually someone turning on a recorder.
It's kind of a good feeling to be sitting in a waiting room somewhere, and being the only person in the room who isn't staring down at a smartphone. I don't know, it just makes me feel kind of smart.
Reminds me of when I still had a land line in the pre caller ID days. Someone called and when I picked up they asked " who are you" I'm like " YOU called me, who are you?" Or the old telepest calls on a Sunday morning. I got rid of one when I asked him for his personal number so I could call him early on a Sunday morning.
The weirdest calls I've ever gotten, all in the space of a few minutes, was when I lived in Miami. Three different people called, wanting to talk to the same person, whom I had never heard of. I kept telling them, "No such person lives here." So then a fourth guy called and said, "You know that meeting you're supposed to be at tomorrow? You better not show up." I said, "Don't worry, I won't."
