Uncategorized 01 Jun 2009 08:29 pm
Telephone, I hate you.
Josh and I have been getting a crapload of hangup calls lately, at least some of which are spoofing an ID of 408-999-1234. Sometimes I’ll pick up the phone and it’ll be someone talking fast in Spanish; that gets me wondering if they’re working the same common scam that caught Josh in 2003. More often I pick up and say “Hello?” and I’ll hear background murmuring or whispering in what sounds like Spanish. After a few seconds they hang up. Day after day after day. It’s enough to make me ask Josh if we can change our name to Johansen or something, just in case we’re getting targeted as likely Spanish-speakers.
I’m pretty well fed up with getting up to get the phone, so I’m not going to do it anymore. Most folks email me, not call, but if by some chance you do call me, please leave a message. Odds are good we’re screening calls.
on 02 Jun 2009 at 8:50 am 1.Alexandre Owen Muñiz said …
Just as a data point in favor of the Hispanic surname hypothesis: I’ve been getting these too.
on 02 Jun 2009 at 5:23 pm 2.Lisa said …
Jon and I used to get a lot of calls on our cells from robots for extended warrenties on our cars. The whole state was getting them so bad it was like on the news every day. Fortunately they stopped. I don’t answer things from weird area codes anymore.
on 02 Jun 2009 at 6:29 pm 3.Sarah said …
Johansen will just get you calls from Norwegian scammers.
on 02 Jun 2009 at 7:22 pm 4.Cam Sculpin said …
What I’d like, if anything, is to get scammer calls in mock Swedish. “Hellu? Thees is Helga frum cerdhulder serfeeces, bork bork bork.” (Thank you, encheferizer.)