OT: How to combat a repetitive scam phone call from “Windows Technical Support”

[dumbrenter]

You all seem to have a lot of time in your lives (and still use cordless phone).

[Doofrat]

Actually, the Do Not Call list is a good source for phone numbers for these scammers. DNC only needs to be honored by domestic companies whose assets are within arms reach of the US. These scammers obviously operate out of reach, so reporting them to the authorities will do absolutely nothing except waste more of the excess time we apparently all have.

[spdrun]

Ultimately, they do have to use US equipment to reach US customers. Is there any way for the US to deny such companies access to the US phone network?

[Coronita]

,…So the way I combatted this last night is I started speaking in heavy thick (make-believe) mandarin accent… I think today I will put on my heavy thick Indian call center accent…

I left the ringer off for the rest of the night. Unfortunately, one of the phone calls at midnight was from my alarm company to report someone smashed the window of one of my homes last night…Lol.. Good thing there was an alarm….Too bad I didn’t pick it up…

[bibsoconner]

flu,

This might cheer you up. Even if you don’t plan on (or can’t) do anything yourself, it’s sometimes nice to hear about a win for the little guy….

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-awards-nearly-230-000-003251647.html

[Anonymous]

This happened to my parents and my in-laws.

They must think that you’re old.

[svelte]

I thought this was timely.

http://www.10news.com/news/u-s-world/woman-who-got-153-robocalls-awarded-nearly-230k

[mike92104]

Have you tried reporting it to your phone carrier? They may be able to track them down and deal with it.

[Coronita]

[quote=mike92104]Have you tried reporting it to your phone carrier? They may be able to track them down and deal with it.[/quote]

OOMA.. so no help.

[Doofrat]

[quote=mike92104]Have you tried reporting it to your phone carrier? They may be able to track them down and deal with it.[/quote]

There’s really nothing you or the carrier or any authority can do as it’s easy for the scammers to just move their virtual presence around. It would be like trying to block someone from sending you snail mail from Nigeria. You could even probably get the postal carrier to throw away anything with a Nigeria return address, then the sender could put an Australian return address, or even send it to Australia or Iowa first and then have someone there send it to you, except this is easier to do on the Internet.

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