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Sep 29, 2016
If you did not pick up the call, then how do you know the scammer knows your name is associated with your very private phone number ?
It's just a phone number. Anyone can call it, intentionally or by accident. Scammers use autodialers to call all possible numbers in an "area code + exchange" where there are only 10,000 possible numbers, hoping that someone will answer that the scammer can trick into sending the scammer money or giving the scammer personal information. After they work over those 10,000 numbers for a few days, they then try another exchange in the same area code. As there are many scammers, that means you might get several calls in a single day, just out of coincidence.
As a sample, I have gotten 7 calls in one day from different phone numbers that I did not recognize. None of these phone numbers were calling me in January of this year; the January ones haven't called me for a long time. That's my landline. My cell phone, which is given to very few, gets a scam call about once every two weeks, or once every three weeks.
It's going to get worse.
It's just a phone number. Anyone can call it, intentionally or by accident. Scammers use autodialers to call all possible numbers in an "area code + exchange" where there are only 10,000 possible numbers, hoping that someone will answer that the scammer can trick into sending the scammer money or giving the scammer personal information. After they work over those 10,000 numbers for a few days, they then try another exchange in the same area code. As there are many scammers, that means you might get several calls in a single day, just out of coincidence.
As a sample, I have gotten 7 calls in one day from different phone numbers that I did not recognize. None of these phone numbers were calling me in January of this year; the January ones haven't called me for a long time. That's my landline. My cell phone, which is given to very few, gets a scam call about once every two weeks, or once every three weeks.
It's going to get worse.