Unwanted calls, including illegal and spoofed robocalls, are the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) top consumer complaint and its top consumer protection priority. So as you can imagine, Americans receive plenty of them. But a Twitter user who goes by the name Miss Odessa has just posted a thread, explaining how Americans can make money off of them.
The Californian mother walked everyone through the multi-step process but some people, even though they appreciated the detailed guide, said the task seems a bit too demanding for their comfortable butts. Everyone wants free money.
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NBC News reported that the number of scam calls to phone lines in the United States dropped by half at the start of the pandemic, as lockdowns closed the call centers necessary to robocall enterprises and reduced the number of phone lines with a person on the other end.
After the initial decline, robocalls started coming back, but then Covid-19 took over India and calls fell almost 20 percent from March to May, as the disease surged and prompted states and cities to institute a new wave of lockdowns.
Turns out, Americans can make over a thousand for every spam call they receive
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Even though there’s not much we can do about spammers and scammers from overseas (except maybe have fun with them as Kitboga does), we can at least celebrate that for every day they can’t work, someone gets to keep their money. Alex Quilici, CEO of the voicemail provider and scam-blocking app YouMail, said the lockdowns have had the side effect of preventing people who work at call centers from going into those call centers. “They couldn’t leave their homes, so they couldn’t do the scams,” Quilici said. “No point of making a robocall if no one’s there when you press 1.”
& for those of yall who wanna see the process in action there are MANY news articles and videos showing it https://t.co/NVnE9uxLRf
— ✨ (@missodessa) August 25, 2021
India, Pakistan, and the Dominican Republic are among the main origin points for illegal robocalls involving Social Security, debt collection, and bogus utilities, said Josh Bercu, vice president of policy and advocacy at USTelecom, the association that organizes the industry’s robocall tracing efforts. “Those types of pure fraud almost always are coming from overseas,” Bercu told NBC News.
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In October 2019, an estimated 5.7 billion scam calls reached consumers, according to data from YouMail. Quilici said that while a series of enforcement actions from the FCC and the Department of Justice brought the total down some in late 2019 and early 2020, they absolutely bottomed out in April and May 2020, falling by nearly half.
After her thread went viral, Miss Odessa answered a few popular questions
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It wasn’t the first time Miss Odessa has tried this and apparently you can earn a decent sum
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But not everyone has the energy to go through with it
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This is bullcrap. Every scam call is always from another country anyway so this won't work.
Yeah, in fact one of the ways I know a call is likely to be a scam is if it’s an unknown number from overseas. I’ve never had a domestic scam call.
Load More Replies...Isn't this illegal blackmail? "You broke the law, but I will not report it if you pay me money."
by that definition, the DA offering a lighter sentence for cooperation in their investigation would also be blackmail. I think they key is "revealing information" for money. But that's not what you're threatening to do: you're threatening to sue them and take them to court.
Load More Replies...I get calls every single day sometimes 6 times a day asking if they could buy my house. I dont live in a damn house or on property I own. They always come from Texas, and no matter how many times you tell them they continue to call from different numbers. I have over a 100 blocked #s and they still come.
The DNC (do not call) list only applies to LEGIT businesses BASED in the U.S. who legally agree to follow the DNC list and sign up to agree to do so. This doesn't apply to "robocalls" where a computer is randomly dialing numbers to see who is a "live" line It might go to a person who is a scammer, but "they" didnt ca spammers and jerks calling from other countries or businesses in the U.S. who are spoofing phone numbers, spoofing caller ID use VoIP on their computer. They buy 800 numbers from the dozens and dozens of U.S. companies that sell them by the tens of thousands along with as many bogus/hidden numbers you want along with the tools to transfer calls and play all kinds of games to hide who you are (why don't they shut THESE down?) They don't adhere to this "DNC" stuff and couldn't care less. Once the spammer finds out they've been had, they will go after you 40x harder. This "fine" they incur is probably 1/10000th of what they make in a year.
but you're missing the point rannveig - even though the operation is illegal, they need a legal front to process the credit card info, and THAT'S where this gets them. (and why you'd need a dummy cc# with a $1 limit - get them to run the card, which reveals the info of their legal front).
Load More Replies...I really, really doubt it. In order to make somebody pay a fine, you'll have to find them. And the whole thing about being a scammer is to make sure it's very difficult to locate you, otherwise, all your victims will be coming for you. Scammers who scam people from their own country are not very common to begin eith, scammers who scam people using their own legally registered business is something almost fictional
Interesting how people say this won't work when it's obvious they did NOT read all the details.
I am going to do this! I am so tired of them calling! I have the time and energy and am like a dog with a bone in getting the info I need! Thank you, Miss Odessa!
What about blackmailing? Is blackmailing legal and legit in USA?! Because... In Italy (and i think almost all over the World) telling someone "give me money or i will *whatever action* you" is not legal. It's called blackmail or extortion. Against the law. So they maybe will pay you 800$, but then they will sue you for extortion and you have to pay 8.000$ for legals and advocates. CONGRATS! But you took 800$ for free 😆😆
Jesus Amelija not hugged enough as a child? Or mad because people are fighting back with your family scam business?
All in all, I'm not impressed. I was expecting to read at least a mildly entertaining exchange between the author and a scammer, but here we have just a bunch of questionable manipulations that probably don't even work.
This is probably why all my spam calls now come from Austria, or more recently Germany...
This is bullcrap. Every scam call is always from another country anyway so this won't work.
Yeah, in fact one of the ways I know a call is likely to be a scam is if it’s an unknown number from overseas. I’ve never had a domestic scam call.
Load More Replies...Isn't this illegal blackmail? "You broke the law, but I will not report it if you pay me money."
by that definition, the DA offering a lighter sentence for cooperation in their investigation would also be blackmail. I think they key is "revealing information" for money. But that's not what you're threatening to do: you're threatening to sue them and take them to court.
Load More Replies...I get calls every single day sometimes 6 times a day asking if they could buy my house. I dont live in a damn house or on property I own. They always come from Texas, and no matter how many times you tell them they continue to call from different numbers. I have over a 100 blocked #s and they still come.
The DNC (do not call) list only applies to LEGIT businesses BASED in the U.S. who legally agree to follow the DNC list and sign up to agree to do so. This doesn't apply to "robocalls" where a computer is randomly dialing numbers to see who is a "live" line It might go to a person who is a scammer, but "they" didnt ca spammers and jerks calling from other countries or businesses in the U.S. who are spoofing phone numbers, spoofing caller ID use VoIP on their computer. They buy 800 numbers from the dozens and dozens of U.S. companies that sell them by the tens of thousands along with as many bogus/hidden numbers you want along with the tools to transfer calls and play all kinds of games to hide who you are (why don't they shut THESE down?) They don't adhere to this "DNC" stuff and couldn't care less. Once the spammer finds out they've been had, they will go after you 40x harder. This "fine" they incur is probably 1/10000th of what they make in a year.
but you're missing the point rannveig - even though the operation is illegal, they need a legal front to process the credit card info, and THAT'S where this gets them. (and why you'd need a dummy cc# with a $1 limit - get them to run the card, which reveals the info of their legal front).
Load More Replies...I really, really doubt it. In order to make somebody pay a fine, you'll have to find them. And the whole thing about being a scammer is to make sure it's very difficult to locate you, otherwise, all your victims will be coming for you. Scammers who scam people from their own country are not very common to begin eith, scammers who scam people using their own legally registered business is something almost fictional
Interesting how people say this won't work when it's obvious they did NOT read all the details.
I am going to do this! I am so tired of them calling! I have the time and energy and am like a dog with a bone in getting the info I need! Thank you, Miss Odessa!
What about blackmailing? Is blackmailing legal and legit in USA?! Because... In Italy (and i think almost all over the World) telling someone "give me money or i will *whatever action* you" is not legal. It's called blackmail or extortion. Against the law. So they maybe will pay you 800$, but then they will sue you for extortion and you have to pay 8.000$ for legals and advocates. CONGRATS! But you took 800$ for free 😆😆
Jesus Amelija not hugged enough as a child? Or mad because people are fighting back with your family scam business?
All in all, I'm not impressed. I was expecting to read at least a mildly entertaining exchange between the author and a scammer, but here we have just a bunch of questionable manipulations that probably don't even work.
This is probably why all my spam calls now come from Austria, or more recently Germany...
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