It’s a myth that ‘pressing 1’ raises a call charge , these scammers use the same call routing technology as legitimate call centres , basically the call centre makes many more calls that the number of agents available , rather that than paying an agent to making calls that may get no answer , or NU tone, or busy tone ( wasting the agents time ) the call centre software makes all the calls , the ones that are answered and the recipient presses ‘1’ , the software passes the call to an agent , who then proceeds to try and ‘scam’ you, this is a more efficient use of the agents time as they don’t waste time on unanswered calls, if the call was being listened to from an answer machine message, pressing 1 does nothing because the caller has already hung up
Pressing ‘1’ costs you nothing at all in call charges , but by pressing 1 while the call is ‘live’, the scammers may log your number and even if you don’t fall for their tricks that time , you may get calls from them again or even other scammers they pass your number onto, but if you want to string them along , pressing 1 won’t cost you anything at all.
