All our friends know that we do not answer the phone until we hear their voice talking into the answering machine. That approach works quite well. We don’t even need caller ID, which has become basically useless.
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The caller ID thing works very well if you are close to it, but if you have phones in various rooms and the answering machine is only in one room, the caller ID is very convenient.
Facebook God Message Scams
https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/...ers-information-using-posts-of-jesus-and-god/
Please read the story in the above link... I believe the message I got here may apply to what the story says...
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This is for u 
Read till the end! I sent an angel to watch over you last night, but it came back and asked "why?" The angel said, "angels don't watch over angels!" Twenty angels are in your world. Ten are sleeping, nine of them are playing and one is reading this message. God has seen you struggling with some things and God says it's over. A blessing is coming your way. If you believe in God send this message to 14 friends including me, if I don't get it back I guess I'm not one of them. As soon as you get 5 replies, someone you love will quietly surprise you... Not joking. Pass this message on. Please don't ignore it. you are being tested and God is going to fix two big things tonight in your favor. If you believe in God drop everything and pass it on TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. DON'T BREAK THIS. SEND THIS TO 14 FRIENDS IN 10 MINUTES IT'S NOT THAT HARD. WHOEVER SENT THIS TO YOU MUST CARE ABOUT YOU"
(whatever you do, do not copy and paste the above message)
~Ben
https://www.onlinethreatalerts.com/...ers-information-using-posts-of-jesus-and-god/
Please read the story in the above link... I believe the message I got here may apply to what the story says...
"
This is for u Read till the end! I sent an angel to watch over you last night, but it came back and asked "why?" The angel said, "angels don't watch over angels!" Twenty angels are in your world. Ten are sleeping, nine of them are playing and one is reading this message. God has seen you struggling with some things and God says it's over. A blessing is coming your way. If you believe in God send this message to 14 friends including me, if I don't get it back I guess I'm not one of them. As soon as you get 5 replies, someone you love will quietly surprise you... Not joking. Pass this message on. Please don't ignore it. you are being tested and God is going to fix two big things tonight in your favor. If you believe in God drop everything and pass it on TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. DON'T BREAK THIS. SEND THIS TO 14 FRIENDS IN 10 MINUTES IT'S NOT THAT HARD. WHOEVER SENT THIS TO YOU MUST CARE ABOUT YOU"(whatever you do, do not copy and paste the above message)
~Ben
I used to get these in the real mail. Nope, God is not saving me if I send and pay for postage to those 14. Never did and I am still just fine.
gusherb
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I don't give my number out anymore, I give anyone besides actual people I want to associate with my Google Voice number. So far nobodies harassing me so I just leave DND off but if it gets bad I can control it how I please.
My dad has creditors after him all the time as he's bad with money and in and out of jobs frequently and on more than one occasion now they've somehow gotten my number, so when strange numbers call I usually look them up with a caller ID lookup tool. If it's a collection agency I'll answer it the next time they call cuz they will just keep calling and calling, and I tell them I don't know anybody by that name when they ask. So far I've had no issue getting my number off their harassment list.
I do get a lot of wrong numbers from law firms and insurance agencies because my number is a vanity number that businesses like those use. Sometimes I'll even get wrong numbers from the 216 area code in Ohio because I apparently share the same number with a carry out restaurant in Cleveland excluding a 9 (my area code is 219). One time I got 4 consecutive calls from a guy with a South Bend number and finally left a VM wanting to make a reservation with some upscale restaurant.
Speaking of that I actually ended up with that number briefly when I was setting up service with Verizon because the less than stellar rep entered one wrong digit...
My dad has creditors after him all the time as he's bad with money and in and out of jobs frequently and on more than one occasion now they've somehow gotten my number, so when strange numbers call I usually look them up with a caller ID lookup tool. If it's a collection agency I'll answer it the next time they call cuz they will just keep calling and calling, and I tell them I don't know anybody by that name when they ask. So far I've had no issue getting my number off their harassment list.
I do get a lot of wrong numbers from law firms and insurance agencies because my number is a vanity number that businesses like those use. Sometimes I'll even get wrong numbers from the 216 area code in Ohio because I apparently share the same number with a carry out restaurant in Cleveland excluding a 9 (my area code is 219). One time I got 4 consecutive calls from a guy with a South Bend number and finally left a VM wanting to make a reservation with some upscale restaurant.
Speaking of that I actually ended up with that number briefly when I was setting up service with Verizon because the less than stellar rep entered one wrong digit...
Many years ago we kept getting sales calls from a house siding company want to install siding on the house. They would call all the time. My Dad got fed up with it and told them to go ahead and come out to the house and give us a quote.
Salesman arrives and looks very puzzled, like maybe he didn't have the right address.
Salesman: I don't understand, Mr. Warren, your house is all brick. Why would you need siding?
Dad: You wasted my time, now I'm wasting yours.
Salesman walks off in a huff, threw his briefcase in the car and peeled out.
We never got another phone call from them or any other siding company for many years.
That's what you do to sales calls.
Barry
Salesman arrives and looks very puzzled, like maybe he didn't have the right address.
Salesman: I don't understand, Mr. Warren, your house is all brick. Why would you need siding?
Dad: You wasted my time, now I'm wasting yours.
Salesman walks off in a huff, threw his briefcase in the car and peeled out.
We never got another phone call from them or any other siding company for many years.
That's what you do to sales calls.
Barry
dartman
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Get them on my cell phone all the time. Latest one is your insurance provider has assigned us as your new health insurance provider, call for a 20 bonus. Why would my state medicaid expansion provide suddenly switch me from my state backed provider, and why would the new one give away 20 bucks to a supposedly state provided locked in customer. I don't get much on my cable based home phone and quite a few on email of course but my isp filters most of them and sends me a daily list to double check and white list the legitimate ones that get caught or delete the real spam and scams.
spookiness
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Unfortunately senior citizens fall for this all the time. My mom got compromised last year by a Windows virus scammer. She gave them the credit card # to buy the anti-virus protection, etc. Last month she got a call and told me her computer had the ransomware virus that was in the news. She unplugged the computer, was freaked out, and called some yokel bubba who tinkers with computers. I told her to cancel the appointment, the PC was old and not worth putting any money into. 3 weeks later when I finally got to it, there was no virus. She just thought it had a virus because thats what somebody on the phone told her, and there was chatter on the news about computer viruses. That said, it was an old unsupported version of Windows, which I'm wiping and putting on a very easy Linux installation that looks a lot like older Windows. All she knows to do is play solitaire anyway and look for stuff at Lowes. I told her never to buy anything online because she doesn't know what she is doing, but she probably won't listen.
The most calls I get on the land line is from truckers that are lost with a load. Apparently my number is very similar to a major food distributor. I always pick-up when they are leaving a voice mail message. If I don't, they will continue to call. Mostly they are very polite. Especially the one's with southern/western accents.
I wish a lost trucker with a load would call me...
cornutt
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So yeah, caller ID is useless now because there are so many tricks the robocallers and scammers can use to put anything they want in it. The FCC is talking to the carriers about redesigning and reforming the system. We're actually thinking about dropping our land lines; it would save us about $100 per month. I might keep one line with absolutely no features so the alarm system can dial out, but there is a way to connect it to a cell phone too -- I need to look at some family plans from the cell carrier so that I can have a third number for the alarm system to use. Then we could just drop land lines. And AT&T's billing just pisses me off because they have fees on top of fees on top of fees and you can't tell what you are paying for.
There are fees on any communications service.
My security system has a cell phone connected to it and if someone tries to yank it off the panel, not only does it set off the system, it it has a GPS feature so they will be found if they take it.
My security system has a cell phone connected to it and if someone tries to yank it off the panel, not only does it set off the system, it it has a GPS feature so they will be found if they take it.
