# What are these phone calls about?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 7, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-phone-calls-about/535314 "2010-04-07T19:43:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-these-phone-calls-about/535314/21 "2010-04-10T06:42:14Z")

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I have been told there there are phone companies that will try to trick you into switching over to their company by having you press certain numbers. I don’t press any number for anyone I don’t know.

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