Cell Phone Robo Call Scam

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http://www.kshb.com/dpp/money/consumer/dont_waste_your_money/new-phone-scam-bbb-warns-of-phone-call-you-should-never-return

Do not return any cell phone calls that you do not recognize.

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Thanks for the heads up.

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Let the calls that you do not know go to voice mail. Most all of the time, they will not leave a message. This is a challenge when I have out of town clients, but if they do not leave a VM, most likely a scam, and I do not call them back. Tough with answering services, but apparently this is only for cell phone calls.

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I would lose more than 1/2 my insurance inspections.

If you do not answer the phone the “clients” just go to the next Tom, Dick, or Harry qualified by my asinine State to do them.

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Let your cell phone ring 3 to 4 times.

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Snopes says this is a scam

Origins: The “one ring” telephone scam is similar in form to the venerable 809 area code scam in that both involve trying to dupe unwary phone customers into calling a foreign phone number in order to stick them with hefty charges. While the 809 scam involves sending pages, faxes, voicemails, or e-mail messages that supposedly relay important information (e.g., news about a distressed family member or a notification of prize winnings) in order to lure the recipient into calling a provided phone number, the “one ring” scam employs a simpler technique: the scammers place calls to blocks of phone numbers (sometimes with the use of robo-call devices), disconnect each call after a single ring, and hope that the owners of some of those numbers will be curious enough to call back:
Read more at What is a 'One-Ring' Scam? | Snopes.com