Yes, scammers call people and ask ‘Can you hear me?'

You’ve likely been in countless phone calls with friends or family where someone wanders into a dead zone and the call starts breaking up. You or the other person might have said some version of “Can you hear me?” until a consistent connection is reestablished. But what if that’s the first thing you hear when you answer a phone call? Several VERIFY readers asked if this is a trick used by scammers. THE QUESTION Do scammers call people and ask “Can you hear me?”