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[–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They spoof a number close to your number to increase the chance you pickup, they don't know you moved.

I'd bet the silence calls are to determine if a phone number is active.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I definitely know about the spoofing - that's what made me figure it was spam initially.

    The waiting for a voice response makes sense, but I've never encountered a system that didn't at least say some form of "hello." Not this persistent of one, anyway.

    Thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Interesting, one of the recent voicemails I received was a very high-quality voice courtesy one of everyone’s favorite text-to-speech companies (perhaps ElevenLabs)

    Wonder if it’s possible they were trying to route on the fly, if they had such a low latency system that they’re able to wait for potential victims to say hello before instantly transferring to a human scammer.

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