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I have a land line that was installed as part of a simple alarm system for insurance purposes, that was only used to test the line and get the number, and neve
by metalman 2y ago
I have a land line that was installed as part of a simple alarm system for insurance purposes, that
was only used to test the line and get the number,
and never given out , and it is hitched up to an old answering/message center phone, so every time I walk past it I can see the calls pilling up.
The real issue is that the whole phone system is porous, well realy ,all comunications and data, so we lurch along, the scams very much like a parasitic infection that is only an inconvienience
to it's host species, to which we apply powders and salves, the question then, is there the will to rebuild everything with a real immune system
that is effective enough to prevent any scam ecosystem from evolving to profitability.
certainly we are all exasperated by the irritation
and the inability to swat and squish the offenders
and gain some sense of retrebution, giving the whole ordeal a singular grimmness
- floydnoel 2y agowhoever had the number before you probably gave it out plenty. "fresh" numbers are not really a thing anymore.
- metalman 2y agotrue. the other thing, as I have gone through, is having my number given out by some random scammer, who in my case must have been unusualy successfull, given the rather excited and agitated nature of the calls I was getting from people trying to contact that person....I finnaly was bumped up to someone who had enough experience to just take me at my word, that no, not who they want, zero knowledge of the situation, no fucking way I am giving them MY name, to be attached to whatever it is they wont detail to me.....and it stopped. But scamming it is realy a problem , so engaging strictly on my terms with whatever is going on. No end to it, unless there is a strong will to remove these horrible distractions, permanently.