Talk:Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam)

Is this information outdated?

Info on this page is more than two years old. Robocall methods and technology have exploded to the point that in 2018-19, unwanted robocalls/texts is reported as the top FCC complaint.

As of May 2019, news articles and the FCC website reflect this advice: If you answer and the caller (often a recording) asks you to press a button to stop receiving calls, or asks you to say "yes" in response to a question, just hang up. Scammers often use these tricks to identify, and then target, live respondents, or to use your "yes" to apply unauthorized charges on your bill.

This seems to contradict info from this wiki page. Can this article be updated for currency? Also, much of the info on this wiki page seems to be sourced from the 27-Jan-2017 Snopes.com "Can you hear me? scam" page.

References:
https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/fcc-initiatives/fccs-push-combat-robocalls-spoofing
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/stop-unwanted-robocalls-and-texts
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/can-you-hear-me-scam/
https://www.snopes.com/ap/2019/05/15/help-coming-on-blocking-robocalls-in-us/

Requested move 6 April 2024

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Anarchyte (talk) 06:47, 13 April 2024 (UTC)

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Can You Hear Me? (telephone scam) → Can you hear me? (alleged telephone scam) – First let's talk about the capitalization. This seems to be a description of a type of telephone scam based on quoting the question asked by a caller, and thus a common noun, rather than being the title of a specific work such as a play or publication. The article cites 10 sources that have this question in their headlines, and most of them don't use title case for the question even within their headline. Most of the ones that do are using title case for all the words in their headlines, not just for the quoted question, and some that have caps in their headlines don't use caps in their article body (e.g., this one talks about "recent reports of the "Can you hear me?" scam in Vermont"). The second suggestion is to insert "alleged", since the article says this is an alleged scam and casts doubt on whether it is a real scam or just an urban legend. Finally, I am also tempted to suggest putting quote marks around the question, since the sources seem to generally do that, but I'm less sure about that idea. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 05:20, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

• Support both changes: As well described above. SchreiberBike | ⌨  21:47, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

• Support as the article states this is an alleged scam only. JIP | Talk 09:24, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

2024 rewrite

I heavily edited this article after looking at it. Despite the fact that the title makes it clear that this is an alleged scam and not an actual scam, much of the text read as if the scam is real. It is not. My edits were an attempt to make this fact more clear to the reader. JimKaatFan (talk) 21:11, 27 July 2024 (UTC)