The company probably got sued or law rewritten to prevent it enough states. They are skirting the law and they know it. So every time it changes they have to adopt the script to not get caught. For example to take them to small claims court you have to know who they are. To do that you can't often pretend to want to sign up, because then they can claim you wanted a business relationship and so on.

So time to move on to the next scheme.

Fake tech support calls from India to "remove viruses from your Windows machines" is popular now. It targets seniors and those who are not computer literate.

They called an acquaintance of ours she is in the 70's and she ended up paying 100s of dollars or so and probably got all the files and password stolen as well. That was before I knew what it was to warn her. She was convinced they helped her and she was talking to "Microsoft" all that time.

Interesting, I experienced the same, I used to get 1 a week tops and now it's more like 1 every 1-2 days, extremely frustrating as I'm on the DNC (Do Not Call) list and have made multiple reports about numbers calling me illegally to no avail.

> Is something going on with these? About two months ago I started getting 3-4 spam calls per day. Never had anything before that.

I think there are "waves" of it picking up. There was a time a few years ago where everybody and their dog was receiving a robocall about buying an extended vehicle warranty or Rachel from card services "just checking in".

I have noticed an uptick as well (upto 3-4 calls a day). If it's not a number I recognize, I just silence the ringer and let it go to VM. And then block the number.

ME TOO. I don't understand wtf happened! I just blocked the numbers but it frankly just doesn't help. I now just screen every single call that I get.

The problem with the laws it that they are specific to the US. Many of these scams are coming from the Philippines.

same here. insta-blocking helps a little but the net effect is I use the phone a lot less. the carriers should be concerned that this could lead to a lot less phone usage in the long run. spam effectively killed email for me. these calls are doing the same thing.

I wonder if AT&T customer list got leaked.

I've seen a big uptick as well.

Me too.