Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by deadwing0 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:47PM (#23013555)

My Chinese wife receives phone calls like this all the time. Either it's DHL telling her she has a package to pick up (in a completely different state) or it's the consulate asking for some information. I guess my phone number got in with hers somewhere along the line as I've also received a call or two like this.

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Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by toast0 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:01PM (#23014823)

My wife and I have cell phones in the 650 prefix that are less than 1000 apart and my number is less than hers; the Mandarin scam calls come to my number a couple minutes before hers... I'm pretty sure they're just war dialing the whole area code. You can usually guess it's them because they spoof 415 numbers or 213 numbers.

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Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by a_t48 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:21PM (#23013805)

I also get the DHL scam calls. Once I tried telling them that I was American and didn't speak Chinese (which is about the extent of my very rusty Mandarin knowledge) and it stopped the calls for a couple of months. That tactic did not work the second time around, though. :(

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