Disturbing Call This Morning From Jordan

[gathermewool]

I've receive my fair share of fake calls. Most of them pertain to my "soon-to-expire [insert insurable item here]", ALWAYS from a state-side number.

This morning was different.

Context: My son had nightmares all night and I held him a few times throughout the night until he was able to fall asleep again. This happens sometimes and I'm usually a zombie the next day. I have off today. I came out and fell asleep in my chair and was awakened at ~0700 this morning by a phone call that I would normally ignore. I ignore every number not in my contacts list; if it's important I'll respond only if a VOICEMAIL is left with a legitimate purpose.

This call was different. I must have accidentally answered the phone with my watch. I was so out of it that I thought it was actually my alarm making noise at first, since I was sleeping in.

It was not my alarm. It was a female wailing and sobbing on the other end. By the time I picked my phone up at ~12 seconds into the call, but before I was able to utter anything, the call was cut off. I was exhausted, but could not fall asleep again. I'm sure it was a prank call, but the wailing and sobbing still haunts me. It sounded real and urgent. What in God's name was this? I've never received a call from out-of-country before, and never like this!

Edit: I've never traveled to nor through Jordan before.

 

[Spktyr]

It's a scam to get you to call back, which is a huge extra toll call and nets them money.

https://lookup.robokiller.com/p/962-770-768417

It's a variant on the Wangiri phone scam:

https://about.att.com/pages/cyberaware/ar/wangiri

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/one-ring-phone-scam

 

[atikovi]

You do know scammers can spoof caller id to display anything they want?

 

[gathermewool]

Originally Posted by Spktyr
It's a scam to get you to call back, which is a huge extra toll call and nets them money.

https://lookup.robokiller.com/p/962-770-768417

It's a variant on the Wangiri phone scam:

https://about.att.com/pages/cyberaware/ar/wangiri

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/one-ring-phone-scam


How do they get money from me calling back? Note: I never call back. Even if it was real, what the eff could I do for the poor woman?

I also don't get the connection between the call I received and similarly referenced in your first link and the follow-on links you provided.


Originally Posted by atikovi
You do know scammers can spoof caller id to display anything they want?


I may have noticed I mentioned that I've received MANY phony calls and voice mails. I've NEVER received one, spoofed or otherwise, from Jordan, LET ALONE ONE WITH A SOBBING WOMAN on the other end.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted by gathermewool
How do they get money from me calling back?

Same way the companies who own 1-900 numbers get money when you call them.

 

[Chris142]

Originally Posted by atikovi
You do know scammers can spoof caller id to display anything they want?

They do that at my work. Shows a local number. I want to know how that call all 3 lines with the same local number at the same time!

 

[gathermewool]

Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Originally Posted by gathermewool
How do they get money from me calling back?

Same way the companies who own 1-900 numbers get money when you call them.



Who calls 1-900 numbers? I've never met nor heard of a single person calling a 1-900 number. Ok, maybe a not-to-be-mentioned family member did have a habit of calling her preferred medium back in the 90's, but not since then...

 

[gathermewool]

Originally Posted by Chris142
Originally Posted by atikovi
You do know scammers can spoof caller id to display anything they want?

They do that at my work. Shows a local number. I want to know how that call all 3 lines with the same local number at the same time!


I get legitimate-looking calls on my emergency work line on occasion, and they always hang up immediately when I answer with its purpose.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted by gathermewool
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Originally Posted by gathermewool
How do they get money from me calling back?

Same way the companies who own 1-900 numbers get money when you call them.



Who calls 1-900 numbers? I've never met nor heard of a single person calling a 1-900 number. Ok, maybe a not-to-be-mentioned family member did have a habit of calling her preferred medium back in the 90's, but not since then...

It was just an example, to help you understand how it works. In the case of your scammer, it was a different number, but it works the same way as a 1-900 number - you pay a huge per minute fee for calling it, and most of that money goes to the person who owns that number.

 

[Cujet]

Jordan is pretty neat:

 

[gathermewool]

Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Originally Posted by gathermewool
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
Originally Posted by gathermewool
How do they get money from me calling back?

Same way the companies who own 1-900 numbers get money when you call them.



Who calls 1-900 numbers? I've never met nor heard of a single person calling a 1-900 number. Ok, maybe a not-to-be-mentioned family member did have a habit of calling her preferred medium back in the 90's, but not since then...

It was just an example, to help you understand how it works. In the case of your scammer, it was a different number, but it works the same way as a 1-900 number - you pay a huge per minute fee for calling it, and most of that money goes to the person who owns that number.


No, I appreciate the explanation. I was just being silly in response. I seriously have a family member who would update me on anything relatively close to what might have been construed as pertinent to my life in her 1-900 # psychic readings when I was younger. As it turns out, she was right about the sex of my children - I'm a believer!

 

[aquariuscsm]

It's a total scam gathermewool. Don't let it get to you. Answering a call like that and hearing that on the other end would totally freak me out too! But that's the whole point of their call. Eventually logic would kick in and I'd realize it's just another scammer.

 

[aquariuscsm]

I found this article:

https://lookup.robokiller.com/p/962-770-768367

 

[danez_yoda]

yup the screaming and crying was a recording. no animals were harmed to make that commercial.

 

[JHZR2]

That is kind of freaky... surely on purpose. These scammers will hold back no manipulation of human nature to try to make money.

 

[Triple_Se7en]

Too bad you couldn't save or record that call. It might have made a nice ringtone next Halloween.
So yes, it was highly likely a scam. Or it may have been a dead relative or former dead ex-girlfriend, asking for some-sort of forgiveness, in order to be let out of Purgatory.

Being Intuitive / Whisperer, I run into all sorts of spiritual connections. But usually the paranormal phone messages are mostly just whimpers and moans. The phenomenon is hair-raising, for it generally comes from the dead person's former cell or landline phone number.

If not hair-raising, it's chills / goosebumps.

 

[aquariuscsm]

Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
But usually the paranormal phone messages are mostly just whimpers and moans. The phenomenon is hair-raising, for it generally comes from the dead person's former cell or landline phone number.


I remember maybe back in 1983 when I was around 15,there was a radio story on one night called "Phone calls from the dead" about peoples' dead relatives contacting them via a phone call. I remember it totally freaked me out!! I recorded it on a cassette tape and I still have it somewhere.

 

[Lou_Boyle]

My elderly mother has starting getting calls from somebody saying "Hi Grandma, this is xxxxx (grandson's ACTUAL NAME). I'm in Chicago and got robbed and beat up. My mouth is all swollen up I can hardly talk. It makes me sound funny. They took my wallet with all my money and my credit cards. I don't have any way to buy food or gas. Can you wire me some money so I can get some food and get home"

Our family is close enough to each other to know this is an obvious scam, but other people with scattered families and less day to day contact could fall for it.

 

[daves87rs]

Have not got a call like that..scary!

 

[Wolf359]

Originally Posted by aquariuscsm
Originally Posted by Triple_Se7en
But usually the paranormal phone messages are mostly just whimpers and moans. The phenomenon is hair-raising, for it generally comes from the dead person's former cell or landline phone number.


I remember maybe back in 1983 when I was around 15,there was a radio story on one night called "Phone calls from the dead" about peoples' dead relatives contacting them via a phone call. I remember it totally freaked me out!! I recorded it on a cassette tape and I still have it somewhere.


This whole thread is about scams. It's just another scam. Scams come and go. If it were real, you'd hear more about it. It's public info when people die. They also use it to break in and rob the place too.