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OT Scam Venting
In article , PeterN
wrote: It is fairly easy to 'spoof' any phone number they want to have it look like the originator. yep. Yes it is. i've received calls with clid saying it's my own phone number. other times it has a bogus area code or an invalid number of digits or it's all 0s or something else that's clearly bogus. irrelevant. They gave me a number to call. It is the same number they gave to a lot of other people. so what? block the calls and get on with life. or, if you're really bored, have fun with them. i'm sure a lawyer would enjoy someone calling claiming they're going to sue them. |
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OT Scam Venting
"Savageduck" wrote in message
news:2015120908422084926-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom... On 2015-12-09 16:28:43 +0000, PeterN said: On 12/9/2015 10:45 AM, Mayayana wrote: | Yesterday I received several robo calls warning me that the IRS was | about to commence suing me, if I did not call a certain number. If you don't have callerID, you should. If you do have it you should never have picked up. Federal agencies are bought out. Phone companies have a monopoly racket going. Your only choice is to simply not pick up unless you know who's calling. doNotCall lists used to work, but haven't for some time now. I'm guessing there was probably some back room lobbying involved that we'll probably never hear about. That doesn't work for us in practice. Many calls we need are from caller id blocked numbers. the do not call list is not enforced due to lack of funding. ...and the most annoying of all are the never ending political lobby and election season robo-calls. These types of calls are not prohibited if you are on the "don not call list". Who would have thought that politicians would exempt political lobbying and fund raising types of calls? |
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OT Scam Venting
"nospam" wrote in message
... In article , PeterN wrote: Perhaps this is the wrong group, but I need to vent. Yesterday I received several robo calls warning me that the IRS was about to commence suing me, if I did not call a certain number. I know the calls were an attempted scam. The IRS knows it too. (This particular scam has been going on for over a year.) The IRS says call the FCC, if I haven't given them my SS#. The FCC says the complaint should b filed with the FTC, which I did. Since the scammers have given me a phone number to call and that telephone number is known to the FCC, FTC, and the IRS, how difficult is it to find out who is behind these criminal offenses. Relation to digital photography - tenuous. they have bigger fish to fry, or the calls originate outside their jurisdiction and they can't do ****. the solution is simply block the calls. after a while your number will fall off the calling lists and number of spam calls drops substantially. Not so easy in some cases. Ever get scam calls from "Card Member Services"? I get them daily on my home and cell phone. The number shown that they are calling from is different every time. |
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In article , PAS
wrote: the solution is simply block the calls. after a while your number will fall off the calling lists and number of spam calls drops substantially. Not so easy in some cases. Ever get scam calls from "Card Member Services"? I get them daily on my home and cell phone. The number shown that they are calling from is different every time. that's true, but when other calls get a not in service message, your number starts to fall off the lists they use, thereby drastically reducing the number of calls. it won't stop all of them, but it's a *huge* plus. |
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OT Scam Venting
In article , PAS
wrote: ...and the most annoying of all are the never ending political lobby and election season robo-calls. These types of calls are not prohibited if you are on the "don not call list". Who would have thought that politicians would exempt political lobbying and fund raising types of calls? once again, put the numbers on a block list. once your number shows up as invalid, it falls off the lists. |
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On 12/9/2015 1:49 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PeterN wrote: It is fairly easy to 'spoof' any phone number they want to have it look like the originator. yep. Yes it is. i've received calls with clid saying it's my own phone number. other times it has a bogus area code or an invalid number of digits or it's all 0s or something else that's clearly bogus. irrelevant. They gave me a number to call. It is the same number they gave to a lot of other people. so what? block the calls and get on with life. or, if you're really bored, have fun with them. i'm sure a lawyer would enjoy someone calling claiming they're going to sue them. As usual you don't see the issue. This is a widespread nationwide attempt to commit identity theft. If there was adequate enforcement thousands of people would not have their identity compromised. This isn't about me. I suffered no loss. It's about a failure of enforcement. -- PeterN |
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On 12/9/2015 3:27 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , PAS wrote: ...and the most annoying of all are the never ending political lobby and election season robo-calls. These types of calls are not prohibited if you are on the "don not call list". Who would have thought that politicians would exempt political lobbying and fund raising types of calls? once again, put the numbers on a block list. once your number shows up as invalid, it falls off the lists. It does not. Indeed political calls, legitimate surveys, and charitable solicitations are expressly permitted. Indeed last week I was solicited by a charity, and we happily gave them a donation. -- PeterN |
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On 12/9/2015 3:03 PM, PAS wrote:
"nospam" wrote in message ... In article , PeterN wrote: Perhaps this is the wrong group, but I need to vent. Yesterday I received several robo calls warning me that the IRS was about to commence suing me, if I did not call a certain number. I know the calls were an attempted scam. The IRS knows it too. (This particular scam has been going on for over a year.) The IRS says call the FCC, if I haven't given them my SS#. The FCC says the complaint should b filed with the FTC, which I did. Since the scammers have given me a phone number to call and that telephone number is known to the FCC, FTC, and the IRS, how difficult is it to find out who is behind these criminal offenses. Relation to digital photography - tenuous. they have bigger fish to fry, or the calls originate outside their jurisdiction and they can't do ****. the solution is simply block the calls. after a while your number will fall off the calling lists and number of spam calls drops substantially. Not so easy in some cases. Ever get scam calls from "Card Member Services"? I get them daily on my home and cell phone. The number shown that they are calling from is different every time. nospam is just being his/her, usual confrontational self. -- PeterN |
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OT Scam Venting
In article , PeterN
wrote: irrelevant. They gave me a number to call. It is the same number they gave to a lot of other people. so what? block the calls and get on with life. or, if you're really bored, have fun with them. i'm sure a lawyer would enjoy someone calling claiming they're going to sue them. As usual you don't see the issue. This is a widespread nationwide attempt to commit identity theft. If there was adequate enforcement thousands of people would not have their identity compromised. This isn't about me. I suffered no loss. It's about a failure of enforcement. identity theft is nothing new and often originates *outside* the usa, making it pretty much impossible to track down and punish, and even if someone was able to do that, there's dozens more who will pop up behind them trying the same thing (probably the same people). |
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OT Scam Venting
In article , PeterN
wrote: ...and the most annoying of all are the never ending political lobby and election season robo-calls. These types of calls are not prohibited if you are on the "don not call list". Who would have thought that politicians would exempt political lobbying and fund raising types of calls? once again, put the numbers on a block list. once your number shows up as invalid, it falls off the lists. It does not. it absolutely does. Indeed political calls, legitimate surveys, and charitable solicitations are expressly permitted. it doesn't matter if the calls are permitted or not. if someone calls a number and gets a not in service message, they don't normally call again. the number is flagged which eventually filters up to the master lists, thereby reducing the number of future solicitation calls. it's *very* effective. Indeed last week I was solicited by a charity, and we happily gave them a donation. and? |
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