Scam calls

Atlantic Dawn

Comreg advising not to answer calls, it's a phone, how useful a device it will be not answering it.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117921723#Comment_117921723

Comreg is a scam right?

They fit many of the criteria

kirk.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117921723#Comment_117921723

Dont wake up

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117876417#Comment_117876417

Why would they have to steal numbers.

They know that all Irish mobiles are +353 8X XXXXXXX.

So they just need a generator to create numbers to fit that format. Numbers are numbers and don't need to be stolen. They have no idea who they are calling.

Also,people's obsession with getting the numbers blocked resulting in people not answering calls from legitimate people puzzles me. Blocking a number after a call achieves nothing as you're unlikely to be called or texted by the same number again and secondly you can't get scammed/hacked by simply answering a call. Answer the call and see what it is and if suspicious then hang up. Simple.

Cordell

They have no idea who they are calling.

Usually they don't but sometimes they do, so be aware of that.

mistress_gi

Had one of these calls the other day. I was in the mood for a fight so i picked up.

Ended up trading insults with yer wan for a while then I asked: I'm curious, is this your actual job? Seems this woke up something in the guy and he said yes, that he was too poor so he took it and the alternative was to beg, he then started apologising!

Ah, good times

Kalimah

I spent 45 minutes last week giving a guy from "Vodafone" the run around. It was a good bit of fun! Between my internet running slow, not being able to locate and download apps, not knowing or being able to locate my IP address or mobile number, I had him totally frustrated. He wanted ne to download AnyDesk and when I expressed doubts about this, he said there were two versions, one for scammers and one for legit people like Vodafone! In the end I got bored and told him I was a nurse and had to go back to work - that I had patients waiting for me! He was frantic trying to keep me on the call.

It was time well spent - might have saved a couple of other people being scammed.

chewed

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117949038#Comment_117949038

I often wonder, by doing this, is your number put on a black list to never call again? :-)

Kalimah

Well funnily enough I have had no calls since which is good. We had calls several times a day before that.

spurious

Referee's whistle?

The Nal

Answered one yesterday

Me - "Hello"

Scammer - "HELLO, CALL ME BACK" *hangs up*.

Theyre a bit of fun, had one on for ages a few weeks ago. He was "From Vodafone, the mother of all the Ireland internet, I want to fix your broadband" trying to get access to my PC. Gave him the runaround for 30 minutes. If you have the time, its great to waste theirs.

Kalimah

Have the same guy on the phone to me as last week - 30 minutes now. Wanted me to download Teamviewer and then AnyDesk. From Vodafone mar dhea. My laptop is giving me "terrible" problems so now he wants me to use my mobile to download the same thing. Wonder will I break my 45 minute record?

kirk.

They stopped ringing after being blocked twice on the app

Kalimah

Got 50 minutes out of three of them - told them I had to go and to ring back at 2. At which point I'll tell them they're a bunch of scammers and criminals.

The Nal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117962754#Comment_117962754

Excellent work. Yeah they seem to be leading with Vodafone alright.

kirk.

I see they're spoofing Garda station numbers

Looked up the number and it's a Garda station

Lewis_Benson

I e had a few variations in the last few weeks.

The crypto scam, had ages of fun with one lad before he got sick of it.

The Internet line disconnected , confused the scammer when I told them I am behind a carrier grade NAT so my ip address cannot be used by malicious persons.

Pps scam

JP Liz V1

I'm getting an 045 number calling about my internet being compromised, ending etc.,

Irishcrx

I've managed to avoid these so far but my other half got one last week and I answered the phone as she was getting ready to go out , was your usual if you want to keep your membership you need to go into this part of your phone and give me information etc...I kept them on the line for a few minutes playing stupid to see how they were looking to do it then told them the company they are claiming to be is actually the company I work for and I know exactly what procedures are and aren't involved in cancelling accounts or contacting customers - amazingly they still tried to keep going ...

I am me123

Anyone still getting scam calls?

I got a call a few days ago from an 084 number. I didn't answer the call.

Does this sound like a scam call number?

wildwillow

Got two today from Irish revenue and taxes. Ended both call after a few seconds. Computer generated voice. It had been a long time since I got such a call.

I am me123

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117985170#Comment_117985170

Thanks. It can be very annoying when you might be waiting on a genuine phone call.

Does 084 area code sound like a scam number?

seablue

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117985188#Comment_117985188

I got a call from an 084 number today. Didn't answer it, assumed it was a scam

I've started getting these calls in the last week.

Coincidentally I moved my mobile number to 48 network last week..

Lewis_Benson

It's been said on here already.

The numbers they are coming from are spoofed numbers.

They are using auto dialers and dialing numbers in sequence, they don't "have" your number, they are rolling through the numbers until someone answers.

Flinty997

You guys are wasting your own time, playing stupid games with them.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117985188#Comment_117985188

Yes. It's a scam. 084 isn't an active prefix. There are no numbers beginning with that code.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117987964#Comment_117987964

I agree. Just immediately hang up on them or don't answer at all if it's a very obviously invalid number like an area code that doesn't exist, or an exceptionally long number for an area you recognise.

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117987964#Comment_117987964

It's a bit of craic If you have a few min with nothing better to do.

NewbridgeIR

I don't get any on my mobile but do get at least one per day to the landline. Don't have caller ID.

I can usually get the caller to hang up within one or two minutes - if you force them to hang up, you've won.

mossie11

Got one today from 087 982 XXXX. there was no + or country code before it...Does this mean it came from Ireland?

Mod - please dont post the numbers

Esel

No, the number is spoofed.

Delilahcat

Still getting them up to yesterday. Almost always from DSP that my PPS has been compromised. Switched to texts for a while there but back to calls now

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117988048#Comment_117988048

I'm only interested in my own time.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117989863#Comment_117989863

I would say anything else, even nothing, would be better than replying to spam.

There’s absolutely no point in posting phone numbers on threads like these. The spammers can display any number. All you’re doing is potentially putting some innocent third party’s phone number up on the internet.

fun loving criminal

It's been a few weeks since I've received a call. I guess they stopped with me when they realised they weren't going to get anywhere with me.

The last call I received I told them how it was. They were ringing me about my account, so they should know my name and I kept asking them to tell me what my name is. How can they have my account open and looking at my file to tell me about my criminal activity or my account has been compromised and not tell me my name?

That's not how phone calls work. If you ring me about my account, you should know my name.

I stopped getting the scam calls about 2-3 weeks ago but in the past few days I have gotten scam text messages for the first time in a long time.

Cordell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117992376#Comment_117992376

I'm repeating myself but I need to: some years ago, when the "your computer has virus" scam was popular, I asked what my name was expecting silence and to my surprise they actually told my name so don't rely on this to identify scammers.

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117992376#Comment_117992376

Its this critical analysis which is important and missing from most peoples thinking when they answer calls.

If people don't engage with them, they are powerless. Once people talk to them, even to slag them off they have a foot in the door.

Also your habit will not change from always answering all calls, and it will not change to filtering out these before they start.

Delilahcat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117992376#Comment_117992376

I've never had one where there was an actual person on the other end of the phone, always the automated machine.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117992536#Comment_117992536

You have to press 1, then connects to a human.

cj maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117989863#Comment_117989863

Yeah it is, I got one a few where I've said "I'll just get my bank details" . You could hear the delight in her voice seconds before I hung up.

Delilahcat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117992555#Comment_117992555

Oh right. I just hang up as soon as the robot starts yapping

Potential-Monke

Getting 1 call a day from a UK number for a few weeks now. They're persistent, and mainly between 16:00 and 17:00, sometimes as early as 13:00. Never answer them though. Stopped getting the delivery messages. Getting a lot of files sent to my Google Drive apparantly.

Flinty997

You mean messages about "Getting a lot of files sent to my Google Drive" not actual files?

Potential-Monke

Sorry, yeah, that. I never click it, but there's nothing waiting for me in Drive. Tbh, I didn't even cop if the notification is supposed to look like the legit one, because I never get any, don't even know if they exist. I rarely open anything from a notification, except maybe certain Gmails.

YFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117853034#Comment_117853034

From Daniel Levy. Not cheap.

fritzelly

Been plagued the past few weeks - sometimes 3 calls a day, but they will never speak to me when I click 1 or whatever. Looking for that older voice. Would happily take them on a merry ride

YFlyer

Got a scam call from 00353 813751355. Hung up after a few seconds.

qwas75

When everyone were talking about them I've never had any of these calls. But now... at least 6-7 calls every day. Revenue, DSP, even "covid institute" recently. They don't give a flying one about what time of the day they are calling.

Adding those numbers to a block list one by one will not do anything, they just calls from different number.

Blocking all private numbers or numbers which are not in my phone book is not an option either. I am on quite a few waiting lists to see consultants in hospital and they do call from private numbers and even using WhatsApp recently.

And I think that everything will get even worse after recent Facebook&Co blackout, after HSE was hacked

Glaceon

I’m still getting the odd one, all “from” 038 numbers. Not even bothering to use real prefixes now!

Atlantic Dawn

Got a new type of call today, UK female natural voice recording saying my interenet router would be shut down in 4 hours due to illegal activity, presss 1 etc. Strung him along for 5 minutes, he said he was calling from Eir.