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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Speaking of India...

Has anybody started to get unsolicited phone calls, sometimes several times per day, from spoofed American phone numbers (mostly out of CA and NY) for either taking out loans against the value of your home OR for taking advantage of a program to pay back money owed to the IRS before the program gets removed by the Trump administration?

When it comes to the IRS one, you'll even get fake AI generated voices of people like Elizabeth Warren and other prominent female Democrats telling you about this program if you don't answer the phone on your messages.

They always come with a message at the end that says "Press 9 to be removed from our list, or press 2 to talk to an operator".

A google search for this will lead to quite a few hits from places like Reddit and Quora that will have dozens of people all complaining about it and saying that pressing 9 to get off the list does nothing, and that they believe that it actually caused the opposite effect with them getting even more of these phone calls after confirming to these people that your phone number is actively in use. People complained that there was nothing to do to fix this, and many had simply resigned to having to change their phone number altogether as being the only fix for the issue.


I have absolutely no idea how I found myself on this list because I am very careful with my information and never get spam phone calls.

But, I'm happy to announce that I have the fix that will allow you to keep your phone number, if you are among those unfortunate enough to somehow find yourself on this particular Indian Scam Caller list.


Last week when they called me, I pressed 2 to speak to an operator and I silently allowed them to give me the initial spiel...

Then I replied with "If I get one more call from you people, I'm going to fly to Chennai, find the building that you scammers are operating out of and I'm going to murder every single one of you motherfuckers in that building".


I've gone from an average of 3 calls per day for weeks down to zero calls in over a week.

Easy peasy, Japaneesy.

Let them know we're not taking this shit anymore.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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