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Letting off steam
For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that
spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. Letting off steam. -- PeterN |
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wrote: For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. was it emily (or whatever her name is this week) from the hotel resort? They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. |
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On 2018-04-15 01:53:09 +0000, nospam said:
In article , PeterN wrote: For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. was it emily (or whatever her name is this week) from the hotel resort? They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. Well, spam of all sorts are getting weirder and weirder. I get messages like this: "Big girl banged in big cock video" xxx "gives her boyfriend a handjob in class Check this video out" Link! And I clicked one of those once using an Anonymizer and got a blank page! I can only assume that I'm probed to find out my potential weaknesses and that the attack on me kingdom could be, or not be imminent! -- teleportation kills |
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wrote: For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. was it emily (or whatever her name is this week) from the hotel resort? They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. Well, spam of all sorts are getting weirder and weirder. I get messages like this: "Big girl banged in big cock video" xxx "gives her boyfriend a handjob in class Check this video out" Link! not on the phone, you haven't. |
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On 2018-04-15 10:24:51 +0000, nospam said:
In article , android wrote: For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. was it emily (or whatever her name is this week) from the hotel resort? They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. Well, spam of all sorts are getting weirder and weirder. I get messages like this: "Big girl banged in big cock video" xxx "gives her boyfriend a handjob in class Check this video out" Link! not on the phone, you haven't. Done what? -- teleportation kills |
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On 4/14/2018 9:53 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. was it emily (or whatever her name is this week) from the hotel resort? They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. So you are saying that the number they ask me to call cannot be traced? According to one of my friends, who was an engineer with the original AT&T, and another friend who is retired from a TLOF agency, just about any number can be traced, though some with more difficulty than other's. I also heard some horror stories about some who were naive enough to either press the requested button, or call the number they ask you to call. -- PeterN |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. So you are saying that the number they ask me to call cannot be traced? realistically, no. scammers use voip, so the best you could do with a traditional trace is find where it connects to pots network. you might be able to obtain an ip address (which could be spoofed), which geolocates to somewhere on the other side of the planet. what are you going to do now? According to one of my friends, who was an engineer with the original AT&T, and another friend who is retired from a TLOF agency, just about any number can be traced, though some with more difficulty than other's. he's living in the past. today, with voip, it's a whole different game. I also heard some horror stories about some who were naive enough to either press the requested button, or call the number they ask you to call. there are always horror stories. so what? |
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On 4/16/2018 3:10 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. So you are saying that the number they ask me to call cannot be traced? realistically, no. scammers use voip, so the best you could do with a traditional trace is find where it connects to pots network. you might be able to obtain an ip address (which could be spoofed), which geolocates to somewhere on the other side of the planet. what are you going to do now? According to one of my friends, who was an engineer with the original AT&T, and another friend who is retired from a TLOF agency, just about any number can be traced, though some with more difficulty than other's. he's living in the past. today, with voip, it's a whole different game. For several reasons I trust what these guys say, over what you say. Don't bother to reply, unless you show me the type of solid evidence that they have shown me. I also heard some horror stories about some who were naive enough to either press the requested button, or call the number they ask you to call. there are always horror stories. so what? You missed my point completely. -- PeterN |
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In article , PeterN
wrote: They give me a number to call, which does not compare with any legitimate Apple number. I have reported this phony number to Apple. there's nothing apple or anyone else can realistically do. the calls are almost certainly coming from outside the usa, and it's only going to get worse. So you are saying that the number they ask me to call cannot be traced? realistically, no. scammers use voip, so the best you could do with a traditional trace is find where it connects to pots network. you might be able to obtain an ip address (which could be spoofed), which geolocates to somewhere on the other side of the planet. what are you going to do now? According to one of my friends, who was an engineer with the original AT&T, and another friend who is retired from a TLOF agency, just about any number can be traced, though some with more difficulty than other's. he's living in the past. today, with voip, it's a whole different game. For several reasons I trust what these guys say, over what you say. then you're foolish. Don't bother to reply, unless you show me the type of solid evidence that they have shown me. what did they show you? tracing voip is *very* different than tracing pots, as explained above. |
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Letting off steam
Per PeterN:
For the forth time this week I got a phone call from a telephone that spoofs the telephone number of an Apple store. My cell phone gets fairly-frequent robocalls from numbers on the same exchange. With me it's to the point where, if you are not in my phonebook, I do not answer. On the land line, since starting NoMoRobo, robo and solicitor calls have dropped from 6-10 per day to *maybe* one per month. -- Pete Cresswell |
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