A federal employee for a few agencies, after OPM got hacked I got calls all the time about my student loans, my taxes and some kind of judgements against me, they never ID'd themselves but always had an 800 phone # for me to call back.
I am sure that was all from the OPM hack,now after leonskum and friends rummaged through all our personal info,I have been getting them again but I just open the line but make no sound and they go away, I block the number following the incident. The other thing I do is mimic a robotic sounding voice and just slowly start reciting single syllable number names, two... six... three... five... eight... which is about when they hang up. Then I block the number.
So far, they quit after a day or two. Some call back but I only know about it when I look to see my 'recent' calls and a blocked call attempt shows up.
I don't owe anybody anything so there's no reason for anyone to call me about money I allegedly owe someone.
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