Scam calls and spam email

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TennVet

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I've tried every route I know to eliminate the robo calls and spam coming my way. I regularly block phone numbers and unsubscribe to junk. The Do Not Call registry is an insult. Then I hear a politician say we should throw money at the problem. Is there no end?
 

I'm not getting as much spam calls as used to. They probably gave up thinking, "That idiot never answers his phone!" I don't get spam emails anymore. One thing I learned the hard way, don't ever let Publisher's Clearing House get your email address they will spam you and sell your email address to as many businesses as they can. I had to change my email address.
 
I took care of the problem a few years ago... got totally sick of it and turned my phone off permanently... into my purse for emergencies, and I haven't missed it even once. As for spam email, when I need to give out an address, I have a junk box I use. It fills with spam and I dump it into the trash just as fast. :giggle:
 
Do you have a phone? Do you have email? Hard to believe. We took out our landline about 8 years ago. My wife had resisted it because she said her friend had to pay $0.20 long distance to call her cell phone. My response, so I pay $40+ per month to save her $0.20. We eventually got rid of the landline and hasn't seemed to lose her any friends. She gets tons of spam calls many from spoofed numbers, and continues to click on everything on the internet. I really think that is the pipeline that needs to be plugged.
 
We took our landline out about 20 years ago.
I have a cell phone and rarely if ever give my phone number out. If I get a call I donā€™t recognize, I donā€™t answer and will then block the number.

I donā€™t give out my email address either. Sometimes I subscribe to a site but if they email me too often, Iā€™ll unsubscribe.
 
TennVet said:
I've tried every route I know to eliminate the robo calls and spam coming my way. I regularly block phone numbers and unsubscribe to junk. The Do Not Call registry is an insult. Then I hear a politician say we should throw money at the problem. Is there no end?
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The 2004 CAN-SPAM Act and its extensions in 2008 and beyond seem to have achieved the opposite of what consumers would want. Basically there is a recipe book most easily followed by corporations with a good Madison Avenue account, to bypass most of the restrictions anyone might attempt to apply by declaring such spam legal protected speech.
 
Paladin1950 said:
I'm not getting as much spam calls as used to. They probably gave up thinking, "That idiot never answers his phone!" I don't get spam emails anymore. One thing I learned the hard way, don't ever let Publisher's Clearing House get your email address they will spam you and sell your email address to as many businesses as they can. I had to change my email address.
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I think that's pretty much the best way to handle it. I don't answer my phone unless I know who it is calling. If you're not in my list, I don't need to talk to you. There are bots that just call numbers all day and if you answer, your number is put on a list and sold to telemarketers and scammers. Once you're on the list, you're screwed.

I probably average 3 to 4 calls a week that I don't recognize so I Google the number to make sure it's not important. More times than not, Google shows it's a scammer or telemarketer that's already been reported.
 
The ones driving me nuts right now are texts from a political party, which I shall not name. I block one number, they text me on another. Some of them are pretty ridiculous and it is hard for me to imagine who might actually send them money. If I was not alienated before I most certainly would be after all of this harassment.
 

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