Can You Hear Me? - Scam.

[Bigmallly]

If someone rings you and asks "Can You Hear Me?".............hang up.

'Can you hear me?': Leeds residents warned to hang up on new phone scam - Yorkshire Evening Post

[Thelma Sanders]

It's getting frightening now

[Cadalot]

It's like James Bond films where you know that the device that reads the eye print means that the character is going to be killed or at least his eyes will be plucked out to facilitate access!

[Nicos]

Thanks for the warning...I've passed it on.

[Ms-T]

Thanks Mr B.

[Miss Mousetrousers]

Crumbs - don't even understand that one. What if you say yes?

[Mitzi]

That page (YEP) won't load for me. What's the gist of it?

[dogsbody]

Now using BT's 1572 call protect service here.

[Jungle Jane]

I haven't seen this,I don't know how they can scam you if you just say yes,you'd have to give some payment details. If they threaten with legal stuff we have a fourteen day cooling off period that starts the day after you "agreed",cancellation rights,I don't think this could happen,they'd need to prove it in court with the recorded phone call. Our banks wouldn't give our money away with just a yes,they don't have voice recordings of everyone's voice how can they prove who it was that said yes. If the scammers have any info on us,they could use their own voices to say yes. If they say they're from whatever company just say no thanks & put the phone down,or if anyone phones you & says can you hear me,say no & put the phone down. I get calls a few times a week,I've been telling them to "hold on a minute" then I leave them waiting while I carry on doing whatever it is I was doing & I've said yes loads of times when they say is that mrs .... they can't do anything,I think.

[jackarmy]

Yep agree with Jane, cant see how it could possibly be legally binding there would have to be some sort of written agreement.
It probably relies on some peoples gullabilty, still good to be armed with the warning though so possible victims ( my mam for instance) can be warned.

[mothhawk]

Snopes.com has a low opinion of this purported scam

'Can You Hear Me?' Scam Warning

I quote:-
"A CBS News report on the purported “Can you hear me?” had prompted police warnings in 2016, but yet again we found no indication that anyone who had actually been scammed out of money by saying “yes” to a caller had stepped forward. (It’s not uncommon for police departments to spread dubious crime warnings on a “better safe than sorry” basis, such as one about a $100 bill carjacking ploy.)

The “Can you hear me?” scam for now seems to be more a suggestion of a hypothetical crime scheme than a real one that is actually robbing victims of money. In messages we left with the BBC, the FTC, and the Consumer Federation of America, we asked a question absent from all the news reports we’ve encountered about this scam: “Are there any documented cases of people being victimized in this manner?” We have not yet received any affirmative response to those queries."