Quote Originally Posted by aboutime View Post
Whether anyone here cares to believe me or not. Whenever you receive a call from an Unknown number, from anyone you do not know, or do not recognize the number. IF YOU ANSWER IT, you are giving the caller the PHISHING bait they need to use your number. Even if it is UNPUBLISHED.

RULE OF THUMB. If you didn't call someone, or haven't seen the number before. HANG UP. PERIOD!

You mean, just let it ring until it's gone, right? Because if you can hang up, you've picked up the phone, which does probably signal their computer that this is a live line. They can at least sell that info. My husband keeps saying, "Let it go, let it go! If it's a real person, they'll leave a message." That's hard for me, but I do think he's right. It's usually a scam recording.

Law and order enforcement is very bad in this country. Phone scammers have been operating with impunity for many decades and that's why this crime does nothing but increase and spread to countries all over the world.