Subj : Re: had a call yesterday at around 5:20p at the shop. telltale clue tha
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Jan 07 2024 02:59:14

Attempting a "reply" from one echo to a new echo with Slypheed. Hope this works.

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 07:50:00 -0800
Kurt Weiske <0@700.218.1> wrote:

 KW>  When I was a telecom manager, I bought a new bank of DID numbers for my
 KW>  company. I assigned the lead number of the bank of numbers to the phone
 KW>  in my switch room, and as soon as I saved the change, it rang.

That's so wrong.  Sounds like the phone company pre-sold the information about the numbers to spammers.

 KW>  I picked it up, and it was a wrong number for a museum. Thinking about
 KW>  it, It seemed likely that a museum patron would have an old number
 KW>  written down somewhere instead of looking it up.   :)

So..  how long did that carry on?  Did you get a fresh group of DID numbers?


 KW>  I'm getting SPAM calls from "Google Voice Verification". They keep
 KW>  asking for the "business owner". Not sure what they want to charge for,
 KW>  but when I ask them to take me off of their list, they double down with
 KW>  what great value they offer - or once, told me it wasn't his job to
 KW>  take me off of their list and I "need a secretary".

The whole thing sounds bogus. A caller with a sincere intention would not start taking a defensive attitude like that.  Can't you just block those incoming calls?


 KW>  I've got around 60 calls logged, am considering taking them to court.

Maybe you would be attempting to take a bogus "google" caller who resides outside your jurisdiction and therefore "taking them to court" would fail.  No?

I get a myriad of repeat calls from Point-Of-Sale device companies. I tell them all to never call me again, eventually they call again anyway. I save the number in my contacts with a suitable label like "SpamYYMMDD-type" where YYMMDD is the date of the first call, and "type" is POS, or CREDIT, or SURVEY, etc.   So.. when I see "Spam....", I know it's a repeat spammer and I don't answer. They never leave a message. That system seems to be working ok.

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