Bob Covello Feb 25, 2016
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Have you recently received any of the popular scam phone calls from someone claiming to be from Microsoft offering to fix your computer? Or the IRS scam call, alerting you that you owe taxes and that you must pay immediately? Or a representative from a utility company, threatening to shut off your electricity if you don’t immediately pay with a pre-paid debit card?
These popular scams have been around for years, yet despite all the warnings and advice to just hang up when you receive these calls, many people are still getting fooled by these scams.
One possible reason that people do not instantly hang up could be our innate curiosity – this curiosity is the reason we have survived and progressed as a species. Another reason that many people cannot immediately hang up is because it violates our rules of etiquette because abruptly hanging up seems so rude. Or, perhaps it’s the believability of the scammers.
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Curiosity killed the cat as the old saying goes.Out of human nature users are curosius and listen to what is being said and getting scammed.
l, that's right that it's bad to hang up immediately when there's anyone over the phone calling me. but we should always remember to not give out any information and/or money to someone over the phone, whoever they say they are, and for whatever the reason is. I have read some recent reports filed at http://whycall.me several days ago. We should be very vigilant to these scammers.
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