Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do?

Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by aerosmile on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:34PM (#25338634)

I imagine that the $2k price point is not entirely arbitrary - people seem to be going for that price point. I know I certainly would, and the only reason why I am not paying the scammer directly is because I doubt they would keep their word.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by aerosmile on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:12PM (#25339045)

Forgot to mention - the calls did pick up in frequency so it seems like he did keep his word.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by pea on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:34PM (#25339272)

How interesting - is he calling from a new number each time?

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by madamelic on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:46PM (#25339384)

You don't need a new number persay.

With current infrastructure, a caller can say they are any number they want because the network trusts clients to report themselves accurately.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by netsharc on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:29PM (#25340447)

I suspect paying them would just mark you as easy money and they would harass you more.

It's an interesting DDoS, if an attacker sends a lot of requests to a website, there are solutions against it, but what about a lot of calls to a number?

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