People are trolling those ‘scam likely’ calls in hilarious ways, and TikTok can’t get enough
Scam calls are universally loathed — especially now that most of us feel like we’re constantly dodging them. However, one mom was able to get the last laugh when a scammer recently called her cell phone and got her “assistant” instead.
In a TIkTok shared by Morgan Golding (@morggsworld_), she holds up her cell phone after answering a call marked “Scam Likely.” But instead of speaking with the alleged scammer herself, she lets her toddler do the talking.
The best part is, Golding’s daughter only knows a few words and spends the entire call repeating phrases back to the scammer.
The call goes on for a total of one minute and 22 seconds, which is pretty impressive when you think about it. In addition to repeating phrases over and over, the toddler also throws in some baby jibberish just to further frustrate the scammer.
“My baby assistant did a good job with the scam calls!” Golding wrote in her post caption.
“I’m screaming,” wrote one commenter. “These scammers different they out here talking to babies now.”
“The fact that she knew she was talking to a baby,” said someone else who was clearly blown away by the exchange.
If it feels like scam calls are happening more lately, that’s because they are. And while many of them have a real voice on the other end of the line, a good deal of them are also automated robocalls. (In fact, a survey found that U.S. phones received more than 50 billion robocalls in 2021 alone.)
A lot of this is thanks to recent advances in technology, which can now allow scammers to make calls over the internet to literally anywhere in the world. But there could also be other reasons it’s happening more to you — whether your number is public, has been sold to scammer groups or because you once picked up an unwanted call and are being targeted again.
People have become so fed up that, just like Golding, they are sharing various ways they deal with them on TikTok (including some fun pranks).
Luckily, the federal government is well aware of the problem and has been trying to curb it for years.
In 2019, Congress passed a bill to crack down on robocalls, and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched a concerted effort to block these calls from reaching consumers. But as we all know, plenty of them are still getting through.
To help combat that, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shared many resources on its website about blocking and labeling incoming scammer calls yourself. You can also add your number to the National Do Not Call List, which may further help limit them.
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