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Moronic would-be scammers
rjbull:
I had one of those phone calls today-cranioscopical (March 17, 2012, 01:51 PM)
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I've had one "good" phone call this week, but five scam/spam calls, and it's only Tuesday. Caller Line ID shows their number, so if it's hidden, or foreign, or "out of area," or something I just don't recognise, I ignore it and let the answering machine kick in. Most scammers are now efficient at aborting at that point, but a worthless ring is disruptive and wastes my time. I keep wondering about installing a hardware call-screening system like trueCall. I once saw a favourable review of it in the UK's Computer Shopper magazine. Their review of trueCall is here.
Tuxman:
Good thing calls like that are actually crimes here in Germany.
cranioscopical:
if it's hidden, or foreign, or "out of area," or something I just don't recognise, I ignore it and let the answering machine kick in
-rjbull (March 20, 2012, 03:43 PM)
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No wonder I can never get through to you!
rjbull:
if it's hidden, or foreign, or "out of area," or something I just don't recognise, I ignore it and let the answering machine kick in
-rjbull (March 20, 2012, 03:43 PM)
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No wonder I can never get through to you!-cranioscopical (March 20, 2012, 09:39 PM)
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Maybe my skull is too thick even for a cranioscope :)
rjbull:
Good thing calls like that are actually crimes here in Germany.-Tuxman (March 20, 2012, 07:02 PM)
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Plenty of the scam calls we get in the UK are from overseas. It's hard for a national jurisdiction to cope with that. Even if they could be traced, they couldn't be prosecuted locally.
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