Bogus daylight phone calls.

I get BS phone calls all day long. I usually ignore them and block their spoofed numbers. I have all the insurance I need, am not interested in selling my house yet and will not buy a warranty on a twenty year old mini van.

Today I answered a phone call. It was a recording in Spanish. I began to poke numbers until.someone came on the line. "What are you selling?". They hung up on me. I called the displayed number. It was a spoofed number.

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bijouxbroussard · F

I occasionally get them in Chinese. A few years ago I began receiving small packages with blank scraps of paper in them.
When I stopped buying items from China, it lessened and eventually stopped.

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard gee that's weird, what was their purpose in that I wonder??

bijouxbroussard · F

@SW-User I remember reading somewhere that it had to do with shipping costs per number of items and how they got around the fee with fewer items.

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard that would have creeped me out lol

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard @SW-User I read that it was part of a scam where they would send something to a customer (usually light and inexpensive) and then post themselves a positive review. That way, they could show that they had shipped something if it was ever checked, and they have all positive reviews from the receiver.

bijouxbroussard · F

@windinhishair Ah ! That makes sense. Although in this case, the items were blank scraps of paper.

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@bijouxbroussard Strange I know. Some people received seeds and tried to plant them. USDA put a stop to that when they heard about it.