The Phone Call Burglars Make Before They Break In

🔗 The Complete Method I Teach, Written Down — The Door, The Road, The Days Away: https://edbrannigan.com/ A man I took a report from years ago was robbed of everything he owned while he stood at his mother's graveside forty minutes across town. He kept asking me how they knew. They knew because the funeral notice ran in the paper with the time and the church in it, and because somebody had rung his house twice that week and let it ring out. A notice anybody can read and a telephone anybody can dial. That is the whole method. One honest note before you watch. The classic version of this is a landline trick, and hardly anybody has a landline now. The method moved rather than stopped, and a fair share of what reaches you today is a fraud crew running a script with no interest in your television at all. Telling those apart is what the video is about, and the same handful of habits covers both. In this video: the ring-out and why the absence of a message is the tell. The wrong-number text that only wants a reply. The name check, and why you never confirm anything to somebody who rang you. The question that sounds like scheduling and is actually a map of your week. The obituary problem. And number six, which gives you about four seconds and has exactly one right answer. Number seven is not a call at all. It is what your own voicemail says when you cannot answer, and a great many people have not heard theirs in years. 📕 Off the List, three books, at edbrannigan.com. A hundred and eighty-six checks, in the order I would do them. QR in the video, link in the pinned comment. 💬 Go and listen to your voicemail greeting tonight and tell me what it said. I suspect a few of you are about to be surprised by your own answering machine. Latch the gate. #homesecurity #personalsafety #scamcalls #retiredpolice #crimeprevention #phonescams #safetytips #situationalawareness #seniorsafety #familysafety