When was a time you or someone you know fell victim to a telemarketing scam?

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1. My buddy almost did because the scammer somehow got a lot of personal information about him (not just name, current address, and stuff but even deeper).

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   After hearing from him on what he heard from the scammer (like what info he used to try to lure him), I couldn’t blame him. They are getting smarter.

2. I had a whole bunch of bills and credit card debts & got zinged for 2400$ from a fake debt collector.

3. I have only in listening to them too long.

   I have since trained myself not to pickup the phone if there is no Caller ID, and if I do to end the conversation by saying I will look up whatever they are talking about on the appropriate web site.

4. In my early teens I got as far as starting an install for a “Microsoft technician” to observe the “data issues” that he was alerted to.

   I realized halfway through the install it was probably wrong, I hung up on the scammer and hard powered-off the pc.