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Feb 3, 2012
By the way, one of the other most asked questions on these posts is....but HOW did they get my number?? Many VERY EASY WAYS, that's how.
Do you have a Home phone, and is the number Listed? There's a no-brainer. And even if it's UNlisted, Auto dialers just call numbers in order, for the area they're targeting that day. Let's say your Area Code is 123. Well they dail 123-123-1234, then 123-123-1235 and so on. And if you've EVER given your number out to any Company, business, bank, mortgage, and on & on & on, there are untold number of massive databases that put all that info. together and are able to put YOUR name together with an ADDRESS and a PHONE number, etc. Most info. nowadays is considered public record, so we're all sitting ducks.
Just take a look at the political stuff going on right now, to vote for your preferred candidate. Later you hear on the News, what % of the voters for so & so are Black, or White, etc. Ah, but it doesn't stop there. They also know what Age group you're in, what Income level you're in, if you're associated with a church or if you're single or married or if you're a man or woman, etc. They know all about you.
This is a new day & age people and you'd better wake up to it. YOU have to stop these phone SCAMMERS on your own somehow. It's up to YOU, and not anyone else. Personally I'm tired of running all over the house trying to find the stupid ringing phone, just for it to be a Scammer or a Telemarketer (same thing), or requesting a Donation which nowadays is most often done by Scammers and not the real companies at all - in other words, it's gotten real hard to trust a voice over the phone!!! So my advice is DON'T!!!! NEVER!!!! Not EVER!!!!! If I want to Donate to a Charity, I do it on my own. If I want to buy a certain Vacuum cleaner, I go out and buy one, if I want a lower Credit Card rate, I call my very own bank and talk to them about it. If someone tells me they're collecting some Debt and they want my PERSONAL info. I tell them to send me a Certified Letter and then I BLOCK thier phone mumber from ever calling through to me again!!!!! And as for that letter,......you'll most likely NEVER get it, because who you're talking to are usually just SCAMMERS!! If I keep getting calls for Johnny or Susy that owe some money and I have no idea who Johhny or Susy is, I BLOCK these people on my phone from ever calling me again & again & again just to try to reach Johhny & Susy, when I've already told them there is NO SUCH PERSON by that name who lives here or who ever did!!!!!!
So go out and get a Phone that has the ability to BLOCK numbers, and use it! Set your Cell phone to NO RING for the SCAMMERS, and you'll never hear your phone ring again from them. Our home phone allows Blocking of entire Area Codes, which works great for all those States where you don't know anyone who lives there and probably never will. Also our Local Phone Co. allows Blocking of entire Area Codes, so if you get a lot of SCAMS from somewhere, just Block the whoe Area.
Do you have a Home phone, and is the number Listed? There's a no-brainer. And even if it's UNlisted, Auto dialers just call numbers in order, for the area they're targeting that day. Let's say your Area Code is 123. Well they dail 123-123-1234, then 123-123-1235 and so on. And if you've EVER given your number out to any Company, business, bank, mortgage, and on & on & on, there are untold number of massive databases that put all that info. together and are able to put YOUR name together with an ADDRESS and a PHONE number, etc. Most info. nowadays is considered public record, so we're all sitting ducks.
Just take a look at the political stuff going on right now, to vote for your preferred candidate. Later you hear on the News, what % of the voters for so & so are Black, or White, etc. Ah, but it doesn't stop there. They also know what Age group you're in, what Income level you're in, if you're associated with a church or if you're single or married or if you're a man or woman, etc. They know all about you.
This is a new day & age people and you'd better wake up to it. YOU have to stop these phone SCAMMERS on your own somehow. It's up to YOU, and not anyone else. Personally I'm tired of running all over the house trying to find the stupid ringing phone, just for it to be a Scammer or a Telemarketer (same thing), or requesting a Donation which nowadays is most often done by Scammers and not the real companies at all - in other words, it's gotten real hard to trust a voice over the phone!!! So my advice is DON'T!!!! NEVER!!!! Not EVER!!!!! If I want to Donate to a Charity, I do it on my own. If I want to buy a certain Vacuum cleaner, I go out and buy one, if I want a lower Credit Card rate, I call my very own bank and talk to them about it. If someone tells me they're collecting some Debt and they want my PERSONAL info. I tell them to send me a Certified Letter and then I BLOCK thier phone mumber from ever calling through to me again!!!!! And as for that letter,......you'll most likely NEVER get it, because who you're talking to are usually just SCAMMERS!! If I keep getting calls for Johnny or Susy that owe some money and I have no idea who Johhny or Susy is, I BLOCK these people on my phone from ever calling me again & again & again just to try to reach Johhny & Susy, when I've already told them there is NO SUCH PERSON by that name who lives here or who ever did!!!!!!
So go out and get a Phone that has the ability to BLOCK numbers, and use it! Set your Cell phone to NO RING for the SCAMMERS, and you'll never hear your phone ring again from them. Our home phone allows Blocking of entire Area Codes, which works great for all those States where you don't know anyone who lives there and probably never will. Also our Local Phone Co. allows Blocking of entire Area Codes, so if you get a lot of SCAMS from somewhere, just Block the whoe Area.