I’m in the unfortunate position to be job hunting, so I have to answer unknown numbers. For years, I’ve gotten “I’d like to buy your house” spam calls. I’ve never been in a situation where I’d sell to a random caller. I can’t imagine one, either. I can imagine needing to sell my house, but I’d call a realtor or something. I wouldn’t engage a random cold-caller.

Does that ever work? Is it legit? I assume it must be profitable, because they keep doing it.

  • yeehaw
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    7 hours ago

    I have never heard of this one before.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      I’ve been getting it for 20 years. Some fart across town used my number on a loan application. Since then, I get a bunch of spam for “Steve”. Funny enough I said yes to the last text asking me to sell Steve’s property. He seems to have corrected the error somewhat because my Steve spam has gone down.

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        5 hours ago

        Must be a regional thing I suppose? I mean I get lots of other stupid spam call variants.