Why do we keep getting Chinese Spam?

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53 new spams this morning. A little less than usual. Perhaps I get many because I have had this email (@aol.com) account for a very long time and use it most often. I have other email accounts where I get very little spam, but I rarely use them.

-Don- Auburn, CA
 
For entertainment purposes I love spam calls, especially when they speak with broken English . You always get a slight delay between answering and someone responding to your hello. When you hear lots of noises in the background, similar to call centers, I know I its not a serious call and I like to hook them.

I keep them on the line as long as possible. They are usually the minimum levels of their working group . One favorite reply is I speak back in crazy accent asking them if they are from Publishers Clearing House, Of course this throws them off . Then I tell them I have not received my check for my 7,000 bucks which comes each week. They get really confused and then go back into their pre-programed talking lines.
 
On phone calls, say hello ONCE, no more, the computer is listening for a second hello, which it does not get, so it does not transfer the call to a real person... er.... scammer. On 90% of the calls I can say hello once and get dead silence until I finally give up waiting and hang up.

For quite a while, I was getting calls asking for "Daniel" or "Danielle". I knew it was a scam call but I could not figure out why they picked the names "Daniel" or "Danielle". One day I stumbled onto a Youtube video and something made me watch it just long enough to discover that these two names were used in the video, as examples of names to ask for.

These two links are the same video, but start at the point where Daniel or Danielle is used. Click and listen for about 5-10 seconds on each one.
If you have captions on, the names will show up there too.


Youtube teaches scammers how to use the phone...............

Charles
 
If a caller is not in my address book, I don’t answer the phone. Quite simple. If a non-scammer wants to talk with me, they will leave a message. If they don’t leave a message, I guess they didn’t want to talk with me! Since I started this a few years back, the number of spam calls showing up has dropped dramatically. I was getting multiple calls a day, and now I get 1 or 2 a week. Scammers only want to spend their time on someone who might bite at their scam, and if you pr number isn’t identified as a “live” one, they don’t call you.
 
Looks like they might have a new account. I ignored the first one on the first day or so and never saw any more. There were about 10 or 15 new posts this morning under a new name.
 
It's surprising how many people fall for these scams. From what I've observed it's "older" folks that don't understand that anything they see or hear on their phones can be fabricated by anyone. So they see something pop up on their phone from "samsung" to install a "critical update". Or one a relative of mine recently got bitten by, someone from "microsoft" called, took control of her PC and put on who knows what malware. They might only be successful one out of a thousand times but it's mostly automated, and relentless so there is always some degree of success. As a cell phone and internet user since they were invented I've never been bitten, nor have I missed anything legitimate by ignoring any email, call or text. Would be nice if technology would filter out the distraction but until then there will always be spammers, con artists and hapless people that get caught up in it.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM
 
Mark_K5LXP said:
From what I've observed it's "older" folks that don't understand that anything they see or hear on their phones can be fabricated by anyone.
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Some of those "older" folks are in their 20s and 30s, according to some cases shown on the TV "news." Last night they showed a man who appeared to be in his 30s that got bit by a scam that's been around a while, though the newscasters said it was a new twist. Apparently he had a phone call that asked if he'd gotten the money yet, and when he asked what money, they said send us a small fee and we'll resend the check.

Not only did he send them money, they kept pestering him. Oh, and on several of these the victim said, in some way or other, "It's not fair." While true, it's a bit naive to think that crooks care about fair.

So I'm inclined to think that the people easiest to scam are folks who are both trusting of strangers and, often, looking for "something for nothing."

"The naive* person believes every word,But the shrewd one ponders each step." Proverbs 14:15
Footnote: or inexperienced.
New World translation
 
Oldgator73 said:
Like the folks on FB that type Amen when they are assured money will come their way if they comply.
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Heck I did not type Amen . But the next morning I checked my bank account and my ship still came in. I don't know the name of it but it was abbeviated "SS":D Maybe it cut off Minnow.
 
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