Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by theothertom on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:36AM (#23017602)

If you're using an iPhone (dunno if Android has a similar feature), you can enable "silence unknown callers" in the phone settings. Then anyone not in your contacts or suggested contacts won't even ring.

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Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by gambiting on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:58AM (#23018080)

That's great, but my doctor calls every week from an "unknown number" to check in with me and I have to get that call, I can only assume that's some kind of NHS voip solution for calling patients, so even if I wanted to I can't whitelist their number.

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Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by rozab on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @08:45AM (#23018417)

That pisses me off so much. To top it off I have bad signal in my flat, and they refuse to contact me any other way or even leave voicemails.

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Re:Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam? by Spivak on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:18AM (#23019532)

I mean the irony is that when you have a huge internal phone system like this the only way to do it "right" is to spoof the number to something consistent.

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