So, you answer your phone to the scam and… now they have your voice too.
Talking on the phone is now an unmitigated liability.
A few years back, I would talk with scammers for a while to waste their time. Now I don't.
LPT: Please have a codeword or phrase that you use with your loved ones so even if the scammers use your voice, they won't know the phrase.
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The only solution? Answer the phone in an over the top comedy accent, such as Simpsons characters, or just whatever comes to mind.
A terse, altered "Hello" is all I say. Sometimes I don't say anything. Most humans would wait a few seconds then prompt with "...Hello?", whereas bots tend to hang up after ~2s silence
That's my experience too. I mostly don't pick up calls from numbers that I don't recognize. On the very rare occasion that I am expecting such a call, I always stay silent after picking up. A real human will without fail start talking after a second or two.
When it is a human scam caller, what I sometimes do is to say "Hello" and then, when they start talking, and I can already guess they are full of shit, I act as if I am not hearing them properly and say "Hello?? Heeellooo? Hello?" Then they hang up lol.
Don’t you guys have phones that screen calls?
My colleagues regularly get calls from nurseries, daycare, parents at the after school club, friends of their children or their parents and so on.
They can probably ignore international calls, although only probably.
Yep, if the number is not in my comtacts, it goes straight to voicemail.
I just don't answer the phone. If it's important, they can leave a message.
I actually fucking do this, and have done for a year or two. Sad state of affairs.
I somewhere read about a service that would use AI generated voices to combat these scam calls, basically talking to the forever. Forgot the name though...
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