Security News > 2022 > October > S3 Ep103: Scammers in the Slammer (and other stories) [Audio + Text]

Let's stay on the subject of scams, and talk about scammers and rogue callers.

DUCK. Well, there are scam calls and there's nuisance calls.

These are people who represent legitimate businesses, [ANNOYED] but they just won't stop calling you, no matter that you tell them "I'm on the Do Not Call list [ANGRY] so DO NOT CALL AGAIN.".

What minded me to write this up is that four companies selling "Environmental" products were busted by the Information Commissioner's Office the and fined between tens and hundreds of thousands of pounds for making calls to people who had put themselves on what is rather strangely called the Telephone Preference Service in the UK. it's as though they're admitting that some people actually want to opt into these garbage calls.

What's more, in order to report a scam phone call, I'd have to waste the time necessary to answer the phone from an unidentified caller and interact with someone solely for the purpose of reporting them.

Some of the scammers or nuisance callers will use a different number every time - it will always look local, so it's hard to tell, although I've been plagued by one recently where it's been the same number over and over, so I can just block that.

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