Is this real or a scam?

I get a lot of calls lol that have a foreigner on the other side, that I know are scams. They ask me a couple of questions, then they introduce me to someone else, who I get transferred to. This person is usually American, and sound professional. Are they transferring me to a real company, or am I just racist?

It’s not racist to know these robocalling bastards are from the Philippines or India and usually do transfer to someone just as grubby, seedy and equally as stupid in the US.
This is done under the guise of circumventing the US robocall laws which certain people feel they can violate with impunity, all FCC laws and regulations.
Treating them with the disdain they deserve is warranted, if not mandatory behaviour, in response to their unwanted intrusions.
Everything up to the good side of the racist line is fair game my rule book.
I can distinguish a spoofed number from an actual call back number, so when these dolts call any of my several hundred dialler DID’s they get shut down within minutes of their mistake of disrupting me.
While I’m rapid dialling though thousands of numbers to corner huge call centres in the active inbound blocks they operate, the last thing I want to hear is that my auto extended warranty has came across someone’s desk or if I have Medicare parts A & B. To get loads of free stuff, up to and including free Walmart shopping vouchers, free AT&T/Direct TV and everything else under the sun. I love free stuff and can never get enough of it. I know it comes from everyone’s best friend OP, who has wheelbarrow loads of money to hand out.
I can’t help myself telling them I have the new Medicare card when they ask if I have the red white and blue one. I have the one everyone is getting this week with the 59 stars on it, representing the honour of the 59 lower US states that stopped the invasion coalition forces of Mexico and the Dominican Republic in 1873. Then always ask if they’ve received their new one yet.
Yes sir, I got that one, I totally understand you, is the most common reply from the clueless imbeciles on the other end of the line.
Then an abrupt hang up is followed by several hundred rapid fire calls that have either no-one on the end or their own call centre clowns sitting around them are on the lines to talk nonsense to each other.
Much fun is had and calamity heard, before they bother no-one else with their robocalls and their number goes serenely quiet.

Make them regret calling you if they neighbour spoof their phone number (it will be only a few hundred/thousand digits different to your phone number). You can never call one of those numbers back under any circumstances. Not unless you want to speak to Joe Citizen down the street, or perhaps make an order from the local bakery.
If the number is an entirely different area code or the ultimate prize…a working toll free number belonging to them!
Then really go to town on their sorry asses and cost them a small fortune in TF calls repeatedly until it runs out of credit or they bring it down before the bank forecloses on their second mortgage, to pay for it all under chapter 7 bankruptcy. :+1:

It happens with Medicare, debt elimination and “Final expense” insurance.
First the scammer from India or Pakistan talks and handover to a real American.
This way the fraud company skirts the law.
Still a scam.

Does the American know it’s a scam, or do they just do their job and send the information to the scammers, not knowing that they are scammers?

The American counterpart knows but never admits

So there’s nothing wrong in being racist to scammers? I could use the flithiest abuses then? Being an indian myself it would be hilarious. I remember triggering scammers with the ‘Kashmir belongs to Pakistan’ comment. I actually got DVR to use the multiple times on his livestream and it was funny.

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Hmmmm I wonder sometimes
I really do

This very much!
American companies are taking advantage of the loopholes, when I get those calls I let the first caller transfer me and then the American gets an earful!
It’s only fair the American company gets my abuse too :rage: