fmdog44
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Americans received 4.6 billion robocalls in February up 15% from January according to YouMail, a robocall prevention service.
Now that we don't answer the phone they're texting the messages now. *Rolls eyes* I had to put 2 in call rejection within 30 min of each other.Americans received 4.6 billion robocalls in February up 15% from January according to YouMail, a robocall prevention service.
Could they tell I was out of town? If so, that's scary.....
Here's something weird: we were out of state for a week. Instead of the daily or twice-daily or sometimes thrice-daily robocall on my cellphone "your auto warranty has expired", I didn't get a single call. Not ONE! Now that we're back, I'm getting them again.
Could they tell I was out of town? If so, that's scary.....
Those "local numbers" are probably calls coming from Nigeria.We've pretty much quit answering the phone, unless its a number we recognize. Seldom do any of these caller leave a message....however, in the past couple of days we've had a dozen calls leaving a message that our Amazon account has a fraudulent charge of over $700 from a person in Dayton, Ohio....and the caller ID shows a local phone number. We don't have an Amazon account, and probably never will. Even though I block these calls, each new call shows a different local phone number. There must be a lot of gullible people out there who respond to these calls, such that these hackers continue to make gobs of money.
Wanna hear something funny?Now that we don't answer the phone they're texting the messages now. *Rolls eyes* I had to put 2 in call rejection within 30 min of each other.
Don a lot of folks are running around with readers now that can steal your phone number. That may be why it looks local. They got mine once and I had to buy a new phone. I was ticked.Those "local numbers" are probably calls coming from Nigeria.
Plus they know people are getting their income tax returns and stimulus checks.This is probably due to new regulations called STIR/SHAKEN that will go into affect July 1, 2021. Here's a link for more info https://www.fcc.gov/call-authentication .
I think these folks are trying to get as many calls in as possible before the new regulations are in place.
I get those too! And yeah, they make me laugh. Wish it wasn't a robot, I'd order take-out just to mess with them.I often get voicemails in Chinese. Honest. I find it hilarious.
Not on the plan I'm on. My parents have me on their family plan. They won't even let me pay for my part of the bill. LOL! But the texting is unlimited. When the thieves stole my phone number I had no service and didn't know why. They were using it to call another state and Turkey for conference calls. The Fraud dept shut the service off to my phone and didn't tell anyone. I spent 2 days more with no service and finally had to go to work and message dad on my tablet to have him tell mom to call Verizon. I ended up having to buy a new phone and get a new number.Marci, do you have to pay a charge for text messages? I sure hope not. Most people don’t any more, but some older style phones still have that.
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