FAKE CALLS DURING OPEN ENROLLMENT - Page 2

Shawnie · ‎03-10-2010

Best advice is not to try and figure out why or how. Just do not answer your phone until you recognize the voice calling and then pick up. Do not talk to anyone you do not know. That includes people who tell you they are legitimate agents offering you a better health insurance product.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

@Shawnie wrote:
Best advice is not to try and figure out why or how. Just do not answer your phone until you recognize the voice calling and then pick up. Do not talk to anyone you do not know. That includes people who tell you they are legitimate agents offering you a better health insurance product.

@Shawnie This is how, it’s called SPOOFING.

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

@Mindy D Yes, I've read about that. That's how you can look at your caller ID and see where you are receiving a call from yourself.

I still think it's curious that they'd use this person's number.

Normally she wouldn't answer it except it was from him.

She knows him well, like I do. But they don't talk nor do they live right close to each other.

There are a lot of next door neighbors they could have used and people in the neighborhood.

This has gotten go bad I never answer the home phone...at all.

Most people who know me call me on my cell phone.

But the other day my brother received a call from my nephew. He was talking to him and my brother called me.

So, all three of us were on the phone. My nephew said he'd been trying to call the home number and no one answered and the machine didn't pick up (I turned the @#$% thing off).

Evidently, my nephew forgot my cell phone and so he called my brother's home number. My brother still answers his home number! Ha!

I swear I think I'd vote for the person who guaranteed me, guaranteed me he'd eliminate all robo calls or advertisement calls.

Who in the name of Heaven buys anything from these people anyway? My Dr said his father kept buying stuff from robo calls they had to remove his home phone!

They get elderly people, that's who they trick.

GrailSeeker · ‎12-01-2012

@Annabellethecat66 wrote:
Well, this is kinda different but similar.

So, today I was talking on my cell phone to my friend about meeting her for lunch.

I could hear her home phone ringing. I said, "Do you need to get this?" She said, "Yes, It's Martin Smith from down the street. I wonder what he wants".

I heard her say, "Hello". Then she came back on the cell phone and said, "It was a telemarketer from VISA". She said her caller ID said it was Martin Smith".

Now Martin Smith is our friend from many years that lives down the street.

So, get this. Somehow they (the telemarketers) got his name and knew she knew him and would answer her phone!

I've had my caller ID say that I was calling myself (my name and number). This has happened to her and other people I know.

But, good grief. How would a telemarketer know that we knew Martin Smith at his phone number and would answer the phone?

That's really scary if you think about it. It's the ultimate in invasion of privacy?!!!!

I can't figure out how they'd figured out the connection. His address is on several streets over from us!

I'm pretty wigged out by that. I've often felt there were some words when spoken on our cell phones alerted someone ....(what)?

So,, I've talked to a family member and just had my phone sitting on the table.

You guys have had me tell you about a conversation with my granddaughter telling me she stayed home because she was having cramps. My phone was in my purse on the table.

That night I got a few emails from companies talking about endometriosis and how to cure cramps.

Now I didn't text, email or talk to anyone else about this. Yet I got these emails?

I'm 73 years old soon. Why would I be getting these? It wasn't random?

I just asked Alexa how to spell endometriosis and she did and then she said, "By the way....it's black friday, just ask me what some of my deals are!

But my daughter doesn't have Alexa at her house, so Alexa wasn't listening then.

I believe you answered it.

I don't even use a cell phone, but anyone's cell phone can pick up conversation, and shoot it back at you via your wifi connection to your computer. I believe this has been going on for years.

I thought I was losing my mind when things I had just been discussing popped up on my computer at work. I DID think that maybe our computers had microphones, but it was pointed out that our computers did not have microphones. Everybody had a cell phone but me, though, and that's when it started.

silkyk · ‎03-03-2011

If you let ANY company put a live mic in your home expect that any/every darn word spoken will be recorded. Sad but true....if people/companys can snoop they will. They sell the info they gather and there goes your privacy.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

If a person falls for a scam their contact info often gets added to lists prepared and traded by scammers.

Mindy D · ‎05-23-2010

The FCC says they are succeeding in tricking the younger phone owners too. They aren’t very sophisticated yet.

Carmie · ‎10-25-2010

ALL COLD CALLS for health insurance are illegal. Not one of these brokers should be calling you unless you requested them to by filling out a post card and returning or by request on the Internet, or if you previously called them first.

You should 100% hang up on any broker...even if they are real brokers and not spammers. They are breaking the law!

Never give out any info over the phone....period.

Legitimate brokers and insurance companies will contact you by US postal Service. That is the only way way they can legally get in touch with you.

If you did not request them to call you....hang up! Don't even check to see if they are legit. They are not people you want to do business with.