New phone scammer technique: plays 25 seconds of funky music on answering machine, BEFORE attempting to scam owner of phone.
(FUNKY beats, MORE FUNKY beats)
"Hi, I'm calling from Amazon, your invoice for $2000 has been approved and charged...")
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@ai6yr Not new. The music playing is just a filler while the system waits for a human to get to the call to actually do the scam.
@ai6yr @lauren A good solution to the anonymous call problem, if you do answer, is not say anything for the first five seconds. You’ll either hear the audible click over to the human or it’ll hang up. At five seconds, no immediate response to the hello is a hang up. Not that you should answer a call you don’t know anymore, but some people have to.
@jbrownesq @timoj @lauren LOL Unrelated, Lauren's phone message recording he posted recently is hilarious, where he does a series of fake voices that aren't his (I assume). 😂 I am still chuckling now.
@jbrownesq @timoj @ai6yr That's considered a positive hit.
@timoj @ai6yr This is generally considered to be a "neutral" call response, and the system will typically keep calling that number on multiple days (or even multiple times in a day) until it receives what it considered to be a positive response (human answer or vm answer). Some systems consider vm answers to also be neutral. Ringing without answer is often considered negative.
@ai6yr The system autodials vast numbers of lines. It doesn't invoke a human unless it feels a human answered (from answer cadence, etc.). If it feels a human is there, it tries to grab an available "agent" to do the call. Often there are far fewer agents, so the music plays until one is available.
