Hoosiers Warned of "Can You Hear Me?" Scam

The Consumer Protection Division of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General has continued to receive complaints about phone calls from unknown numbers in which the caller asks, “Can you hear me?.” The calls come from scammers attempting to get the recipient to simply say “yes.” The scam is an effort to confirm working phone numbers answered by live persons Those numbers are then targeted at later dates and added to lists of phone numbers resold to other scammers. Hoosiers who receive these calls should hang up the phone and report them immediately.