Did You Fall For This Simple Phone Scam? (If So, You'll Be a Target Forever)

I'm happy to be fully back online, it has been great, I have observed, tested and experimented many business models, we shall be concentrating on scam alerts before I proceed to dish out easy and legitimate models we can engage and make a genuine profit.

Before you can be targeted by the hardcore scammers, you've got to fall for this deceptively simple scam first.

Phone scams are on the rise. There's the "can you hear me?" scam, and the "free millions online" scam, and the CBN customer support phone scam, which uses slightly different tactics.

There's also something more basic: the incredibly simple phone scam inspired by legitimate marketing techniques, that makes all the other scams possible to begin with--and the one you might not even realize you've fallen for.

It's almost laughably basic, and if you're duped by it, and you'll be targeted forever. It goes like this:

1. Your mind races: A friend with a new phone? A president's office confirming your appointment? Someone with a delivery trying to find your front door?
2. Your phone rings. Caller ID shows a local area code--but an an unfamiliar number.
3. You hesitate, but you answer. "Hello?"
4. Dead silence. Maybe it's a wrong number?
5. You quickly forget about the whole thing.

That's it, right? Not exactly. Because even if you forget, the person on the other end of the line (actually the computer, to be more precise) sure won't forget about you.

Top of the funnel

Suddenly, you're getting more of these hang up calls. You Google the incoming phone numbers. Other people area complaining about them, too. What the heck?

It's some kind of scam, obviously--but how could that possibly work? Call you and just hang up? Where's the profit in that?

The answer is that these hang up calls are the first move in a long game to try to scam you--or if not you, somebody like you.

Much like in the legitimate marketing world, the calls are an automated, "top of the funnel" message. They require very little action on your part--just hitting that "answer" button on your phone.

And they're designed simply to verify that your number is actually a real person's number--and that it's being used by someone whose past behavior shows he or she is statistically likely to pick up when the phone rings. Now that you've answered, you're in good company, along with thousands and thousands of others.

Hope you will begin to protect yourself against scammers, you can use the comment section for questions or contribution.