SPAM ! Let's Give It Up !

onse, just no money. Make it so it has to change the damn phone number !

y lose money. Some of them get the message. For those that don't there is t he DO NOT CALL list.

them spam and I will be quite loquacious in my responses. I sometimes do go od with telemarketers, I believe a half hour is pretty good. But I could co py and paste a chapter of a book in there and somehow make them think I am going to buy something but I just have to explain a little.

Hmm I use google groups and just reported them all as spam. Best to just ignore, IMO

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It's pretty easy to circumvent the caller ID/Do Not Call list. Lots of telemarketing/phone scam hustles don't even originate within the US, e.g. Eastern European crime syndicate buys a zero-day exploit for the OS of choice on the black market for $50k, uses it to write a trojan horse that's uploaded onto the Internet and eventually finds its way onto various unpatched corporate PBX machines around the world, these machines then become part of a botnet used to mutiple-hop spam calls all around the globe until they reach the US where they can be routed to VoIP exit points in the geographic location of the target with spoofed Caller ID info, make it look like the call is coming from any number you want.

You don't really need much skill to write the virus/trojan horse either I'm pretty sure there are semi-automated software tools (also available on the black market for a price) where it's more-or-less plug and play, drag and drop your purchased exploit/rootkit code payloads of choice and it'll give them a try until it finds the one that works.

I often receive spam calls on my cell phone (lower your credit card interest rate today!) that are just a few digits off from my own number, I'm pretty sure I've received spam calls that caller ID to my own cell number at some point which is kinda amusing

Or just read up on how to make filters in your E-mail client. I get NO spam in my In-Box. ...Jim Thompson

(1) Set rollover to voicemail to 10 rings

(2) Add scammer's number to "contacts" list

(3) Set ring type to "no ring"

(4) For new incoming call, unrecognized name, just hit "quiet". Legit callers will leave a voice mail. No voicemail? Add number to "no ring" contacts list. I have 108 so far... only get a new hit maybe once/twice a week. ...Jim Thompson