# Scammer calls. Does anyone actually fall for them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scammer-calls-does-anyone-actually-fall-for-them/945018 "2021-06-25T19:45:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scammer-calls-does-anyone-actually-fall-for-them/945018/3 "2021-06-25T20:00:47Z")
Are you including on-line scamming or just phone calls? We had a thread here several years ago – you may remember it – in which one poster blogged the daily blow-by-blow as she watched a neighbor getting sucked into a fake on-line long-distance romance. In her words, “they are plucking him like a chicken”. ETA: Here it is, from December 2008: > [@Unwittingly dragged into the middle of a scam. Yipe!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unwittingly-dragged-into-the-middle-of-a-scam-yipe/478505): > > Okay, not the middle of a scam, but the periphery – a very awkward position either way. Sorry in advance for the length… I live in an apartment building. A neighbor on my floor, whom I know enough only to say ‘hi’ and ‘how are you’ to now and then, got into the elevator with me and after a little chatting, suddenly asked me if I had a computer. I said yes – I assumed he was gonna ask for recommendations for purchasing one. How wrong I was! He asked if he could come over and use it to send a… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scammer-calls-does-anyone-actually-fall-for-them/945018)._