I’m going thru trying to find some numbers to call on BobRTC now and of just the first four I tried, half are not scammers, just obviously
(416) 451-XXXX listed on there is just some dude, middle aged american guy, picking up his personal cell
another was some plastics company
You guys have to stop fucking around with this shit, if you can't check a number to see if it was spoofed, don't add any numbers. I don't even want to make any calls on here today, because I don't want to inadvertently start blowing up just some dude's phone
@CometPizzaDaddy#112316 Thanks for bringing this up to our attention, however, I just randomly stumbled across this thread.
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I removed the plastics number even though I couldn't verify if it's true. I couldn't hear the complete company name and on the web search it doesn't return results.
We have been seeing a rash of SSA scammers diverting their numbers to random phone numbers trying to shake off the calls. Some of these require moderator examination and several test calls to see if they’re just playing games or it’s a spoof.
Mind you with SSA spoofs, hundreds of thousands of callbacks happen every day of dialbacks in reaction to spoofs. The telecom carriers have no answer to this. It's annoying when someone is using a sticky spoof CID number on their outbound robodial campaign, so a poor unsuspecting victim basically gets hounded with tons of wrong number calls. Every Tier 1 carrier gives the victim the same crap lines...
"Block the number" (ugh, but I'm getting 500 different numbers at once)
"Change your number" (are you going to do the hard work of reminding everyone I've ever talked to for the past 15 years to update their contact lists?)
etc.
Thank you for raising this issue. The mod team takes non-scam phone numbers very seriously. We're dealing with a few nettlesome nitwits as well. If you want a quicker response please take the time to hop on the NumbersLobby channel.
this seems to be a legitimate, U.S. based company, with U.S. based operators, that do actual repairs and shit
https://bobrtc.live/phonebook/dial/18448183415
seems maybe someone just saw tech support and assumed all tech support is a scam? i dont know
i didnt do a deep dive but, nothing at surface level suggesting this is a scam.
@CometPizzaDaddy#114023 I’ve called them a couple of times and while they are from the US and also recognized correctly I was giving them a fake popup but still, they always proceeded to sell me their services because apparently according to them there’s really a virus on my system. I called 5-10 times and none of them told me to reboot my PC or just simply force close the browser and I’m good to go. I explained to them the situation and one lady summed it up pretty well: “We don’t offer free services”.
So yeah, no popup scam but definitely deceptive and unethical business practices. Enough for me to justify them being on here.
There's another discussion about OneSupport here: http://scammer.info/d/26539-is-onesupport-com-a-scam/
