2 and 1/2 minute video to show you how clever the thieves are - and this video is dated. They've gotten better.
What is the “Say Yes” Scam? - Experian Some info on it ... apparently, they can use your "yes" to sign you up for services you don't want or something. It sounds like once they get your "yes", they continue to call you with other questions, I assuming trying to get more info from you so they commit ID fraud ... they might have a database of stolen CC numbers they are trying to make use of, so you might consider getting a new card.
That sounds sorta like a prank call we used to make when I was a kid. We would call like 3 times and ask "Is Bob there?". The person who would answer the phone would say "Bob doesn't live here". After the person answering would get quite aggravated we would call again and say "Hello this is Bob, were there any calls for me?".
But I don't think it was a prank. I think it involved a dope deal gone bad. Some guy gave them a false phone number (mine), so they couldn't reach him. But they thought I was him, lying. For his sake I hope he didn't show up for that meeting.
It just dawned me why I no longer have caller ID displayed on the TV screen. I cancelled the TV (cable) part of AT&T U-Verse (it was highway robbery), and got streaming YouTubeTV instead. I still have the phone with AT&T, but AT&T ain't gonna let me have caller ID on YouTubeTV.
scammers are a dime a dozen these days and very creative in the ways they come up with to rip others off. If these parasites would channel that energy in more positive directions, but sigh......
I once got a series of calls from a guy at 3:00am asking for Amber (G’ville). On the 3rd call i told him to quit bothering us because Amber and i were busy. He didn’t call back. Figured Amber gave him a bogus number (mine) and I helped Amber ghost the dude.
I don't have to lug my landline around in my pocket. I do worry about some distracted driver crashing into me, but not because he or she is talking or texting on a landline phone.
They cant. No part of accessing your bank info is as easy as saying yes. Heck to do it on my phone I have to have two part authorization. I log in and then they text me to verify I am the one logging in. This is after I have already used my thumb or facial recognition to enter my phone. Its all very secure these days. Zero way that they can use your "yes" for that.
I recommend you youtube some scam bait videos to see what these scammers actually do. I don't believe it's as easy as you think to scam you with a simple "yes." They rely on scaring people into giving them information and/or remote access to your computer. They are the scum of the earth and often prey on the sick and elderly Many different types of these scam the scammer videos to choose from. I find some tedious but others extremely informative and satisfying. Here are just 3 of them. Each with different styles and methods.
Thanks. The scams I hate the worst are ones that preyed on my late elderly mother. They would send her official-looking certificates making her think she had won millions of dollars from lotteries or sweepstakes (even though she never entered any lotteries or sweepstakes). All she had to do was send them a "processing fee" each time in order to collect her millions. (Fine print on the back of the certificates says you only have a chance to win, though it's written in double-talk which will confuse a lot of elderly folks if they read it at all, but I guess it's supposed to be their legal out. But how is there even a chance to win from these crooks, who, as the fine print states, have no connection to any lotteries or sweepstakes at all?) My mother, who had some dementia, would send them check after check, $25 or $30 at a time, and wait for her millions. I couldn't stop her. If you have elderly parents, you might want to see if they are receiving this crap in the mail and sending them money. I'm sure it's mass mailings.
You must be single. I don't think many married men would be allowed to go without a cell phone. I am pretty sure my wife tracks mine because every time I go in a gun shop she calls me and ask what I am doing. I miss the old days when the wife had to call the bar or the club house to try and find me. If you tipped the bar tender enough they would lie for you. The "my cell battery went dead" only works a couple of times.
