Every single number I call ends up being disconnected/out of service…
it’s really a matter of timing. Gotta get in early on finds since there’s a lot of people on here working 24/7 to get these numbers down so potential victims aren’t calling them up.
Although, the travel scam section might have a lot of non-disconnected ones. It’s pretty harder to get those down since carriers are difficult to work with, they often don’t understand what “impersonation” is, or they don’t care about things off-network.
Please excuse my poor English as Spanish use to be my first known language before being forced to learn English.
A singular scam can shuffle through multiple numbers. usually scams ran out of call centers, email scams, tech support scams, and other quick cash scams. there is very few who even keep the numbers active for more then a week, are getting heavy volume, are targeting a select few via email or text, or are targeting singular individuals which some of those numbers slip up and get reported here @ scammer.info .
The problem isn’t that we cant keep up or really find out which number they’re going to use next. The problem is once they find out that a line or service starts to get to many “fake” requests, is not making enough money, or in general wasting the time of the agents on the line. They Cut the lines and try a different strategy, to target, and attempt to scam any innocent user they can find. moreso, they seem to keep the numbers down for a month then reactivate or reservice them and attempt the same scam with a new group of people hoping the number has been forgotten or has been removed from online sources.
This is what makes it difficult to trace because no scambaiter or atleast as far as i know, usually keeps track of a number after a certain period of time, usually they keep track if the number is active but when the scammers shut down the line, usually the scambaiters move onto the next set of numbers forgetting that some of these numbers were used by the scammers. The scammers found out its the only way they’re collectively going to be getting victims that have no idea that the number is a scam, or that the business that they’re running, is a scam.
so to put it Simply
If your looking for numbers to call and they’re not active, I would move onto the next posts, usually there is fresh posts everyday that you can call
If your doing research on the numbers, check and see if the number is registered to a carrier and try calling it daily to see if the number is active. if a post was made about a number and you found it to be active, write a comment to the corresponding post to remind people this scam is still active. (not the most ideal thing as there are millions of people in the world but you will help innocent people not get scammed and save many other who struggle to catch on.)
If your only calling tech support related scams, maybe try moving on to the more intensive posts and assist at collecting information to catch onto a network of scams. (Airport scams) (IRS scams) (419 Emails) (Loan Scams) (etc)
Other then that, thats my 2 cents on the situation.
hey, hope your well. i got some tips and dvice in regards to your question. its trial and error really. sometimes i have days where numbers are down and I cant get any scammers on the line, its after new year now so numbers should be creeping back up. if your in the us or uk or have a residential ip in those countries then you can go to google and google keywords like printer support, microsoft support, technical support, etc. the ads contain fake websites, once you see a couple of them you will start to be able to tell the difference. A lot of the fake printer sites use the same or similar template of text. hope this helps! You can also try the Tech Scammers United forum if you find no active numbers on here, or try the R /Scam Numbers subreddit (be careful of numbers on reddit in general as some might be legit, same with the airline/reservation scammers, some might be legitimate.) I hope this info helps