what actually happens with a spam call and no one is in the other line, only a few clicks or beeps?

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what actually happens with a spam call and no one is in the other line, only a few clicks or beeps?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

They track if there is somewhere on the other side. They then can sell your number to other scamers.

Anonymous 0 Comments

What they call an autodialer. Computer calls people and when they answer call gets routed to an available agent. If there are no agents available, you get what you experienced. This happens when the so called ‘abandon rate’ is set too high. This happens only with aggresive sales call centers. We call them cowboys. Avoid at all costs. If you hear nothing: hang up.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yeah, don’t waste time answering calls from numbers you don’t recognize. 95% are spam and that other 5% will leave a message or text you if it’s important.

Anonymous 0 Comments

I have never in my life considered buying something from a telemarketer. What kind of person are they able to convert to a sale?

Anonymous 0 Comments

The actual call is made by a robot. The assumption is that many/most calls won’t get answered, so they don’t have to waste a human doing this: the human only gets passed the call when the robot determines that the phone has actually been answered.

The number of humans available is based on the proportion of calls that actually get answered.

What you are experiencing is too many calls being answered: the robot dials a number, gets an answer (you), but has no free human to pass the call to. The call is just dropped.

Anonymous 0 Comments

The “never any one there” spam calls are data mining.

Does this number answer the phone?

What time did they? What time don’t they?

Same area code? Different area code?

goes on and on.

Then DEVILDATADOUCHEBAGS sells a giant chunk of “these people will likely answer the phone between 6pm and 9pm from similar area codes, will not answer before 6pm, this is your window to sell this old lady something they don’t need”

EZPZ data collection and money making because advertising data is running the world MADMEN style with out the style, twice the drugs, and all the amorality.

Anonymous 0 Comments

if i answer a call from a number i don’t know, i just pick up and don’t say anything.
if there is a human there, they will say something.. if it is an autodialer it cuts of quite quickly.. they are paying for the call (in time, money or computer cycles)

Anonymous 0 Comments

I thought they were too check if lines were being used, so if you answered you’d be flagged as a potential customer for future cold calls

Anonymous 0 Comments

One explanation is: someone owns obscure telephone towers which your call gets routed to. They make money off that, the longer you stay on the more money you get. Silent calls cause people to hang up faster. If you put on something in the background you might stay on longer.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Call centres use automatic dialers. They are faster than people’s fingers. And, because many people are out, or using answering machines, the automatic dialer reaches many homes when there’s no person there. When that happens, the dialer is programmed to listen for a few seconds to see if someone is actually there.

To do this, the machine ‘listens’ for “spectral energy” on the line. A typical human would answer the phone with a brief “Hello” or “Hi”, and then listen for the caller. The automatic dialer sees this brief blip of energy, and says “A-ha! A live one!”, and immediately transfers the call to a waiting agent. If the machine doesn’t see any energy on the line, or sees a constant stream of energy (“Hi, it’s Frank, please leave a message…”) then the machine assumes there’s no real person there, and hangs up.

But sometimes, you answer the phone, and the machine tries to transfer the call to a waiting agent.. but all the agents are busy. That’s when you will hear the silence or clicks as the machine searches for the next available agent. When this happens at home, I apologize for answering the phone at such an inconvenient time, and hang up.

Typically, a dialer is set up with more outgoing telephone lines than it has agents available. The statistics show that 70% of the calls don’t reach the intended party of the first try, so most of the calls the dialer makes will be answered by machines or won’t be answered at all. To ensure the agents are kept reasonably busy, and not listening to hilarious answering machine messages, most call centres will have say 32 outgoing lines for 24 agents. The exact configuration would be based on statistics and traffic tables.