Weird. You'd think they wouldn't want to waste their own time like that.
They were targeting my grandfather for a while but stopped calling when I would cut them off mid-sentence.
The first time I was thoroughly confused by the truly non-sensical gibberish the guy was spouting until he got to the point where he offered to fix it all. Then I just said I was a software engineer and that everything he just said was garbage. He replied software engineer? I said yes and he hung up on me.
On the second call we got I just cut the guy off and asked: what company do you work for? There were a few seconds of silence followed by a click and dial tone. No calls since.
> Weird. You'd think they wouldn't want to waste their own time like that.
The same scammer will call back multiple times in case there are several people that might answer the phone at that number which could be the case for a household or small business (large businesses are not a target for this sort of thing as the people who answer the phone won't have the access rights needed for the scam to work). You knew that it was a scam but your sibling/parent/secretary/what-ever might not and so might go along with it.
Once they've retried your number a few times they'll just add it to the pool that they'll sell on to other scammers. By answering the phone you've proven that the number is valid and can be used to contact a human. Lather, rinse, repeat.
They were targeting my grandfather for a while but stopped calling when I would cut them off mid-sentence.
The first time I was thoroughly confused by the truly non-sensical gibberish the guy was spouting until he got to the point where he offered to fix it all. Then I just said I was a software engineer and that everything he just said was garbage. He replied software engineer? I said yes and he hung up on me.
On the second call we got I just cut the guy off and asked: what company do you work for? There were a few seconds of silence followed by a click and dial tone. No calls since.