The speakers in the earpiece are not powerful enough to hurt your ears.

I once let a female scammer get into her spiel and then asked her if she was wearing panties and started heavy breathing. She swore at me and hung up. 

John Smith wrote on Oct 8^th, 2023 at 1:41pm:


Oh that one I’m getting constantly!
Telling me they were unsuccessful to deliver a parcel and to click in the link for more details.
I block the number, then delete.

Agnes. wrote on Oct 7^th, 2023 at 10:58pm:


A few weeks ago I was nearly scammed of $500…..
I just couldn’t trust what was happening.
I kept looking up online about what was being offered and I did a screen shot and wrote it was contrary to what they said. Then I heard crickets after that 

How it happened was I advertised stuff on fb market place first time ever and was inundated with enquiries (all scammers I learnt later) and asked if they could pay with “payid”
When I asked if they wound scam me, this dweeb writes “I would never hurt my fellow human being”

Well he got narky with me for not believing his way of payid as I wanted to check with bank and he said not to, has nothing to do with bank.

Then that’s when I sent screenshot of his discrepancy.
That makes them leave you and move on to next victim.

I went into Telstra to change my phone plan.
I get a text next day it’s from Telstra and to rate the service by clicking on a link to rate.
I ignore that also.
It’s gotten so that I cannot trust anything anymore.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Oct 8^th, 2023 at 3:39pm:


I have a Telstra Call Guardian home phone which does an excellent job of blocking scammers and other nuisance callers (should come in handy next week with the Voice referendum calls I'm expecting).

You can block whole area codes - for example I have all 02, 03, 05, 06 and 07 area codes blocked.

If I set it to the 'highest' blocking setting I can block all calls except for the numbers I have put into the phone's list of 'approved' numbers.

It can also automatically block numbers detected as "Unavailable", these are 'spoofed' numbers that give you a "number is not in service" recorded message if you ever try to call them back.

The default setting is that all unknown callers hear a recorded message telling them to say their name and press the # key after the beep... if they don't after being asked twice the call disconnects without me even being aware of what the phone is doing.

I also have a call blocker app for my mobile that works well for blocking numbers by area code and unknown numbers, etc.

Belgarion wrote on Oct 8^th, 2023 at 3:03pm:


Need to be a little careful as some are just unwanted marketers and not malicious just annoying.

They will record what you say and have your name and phone number. They may be able to make as much money from that as the original scam.

AusGeoff wrote on Oct 9^th, 2023 at 2:55am:

So that's not a myth, it can be done. Maybe the directors of companies and departments where customers are hacked, can be on camera to prove their lack of secure data.