Have Any Of You Been Receiving Any Phone Calls About Your Computer?

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  1. Kitty Carmel

    Kitty Carmel Veteran Member
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    Yes I have got them. Some times when I use the *69 feature, it will tell me the number is unavailable or if it gives me the number, I run it on Google and find MANY have received calls from this number.

    They have even had my full name. I usual hang up. To one guy I just kept stating "no this is the (made up name) residence. He kept insisting he had the right person. But I just kept repeating the above and he finally stopped. Some kind of scam.
     
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  2. Billie Lane

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    I get them often, but i don't have a Windows computer , i use Linux.
    i don't usually tell them that till about five/ten minutes later , though, which usually results in the phone being put down.

    Other times, I lead them on a little and then say something like " I have a pink rabbit. He is twelve feet tall and he's called Algernon."
    The phone goes down very abruptly sometimes, just as the conversation was getting interesting too.
     
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  3. Frank Sanoica

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    @Billie Lane
    "I have a pink rabbit. He is twelve feet tall and he's called Algernon."
    The phone goes down very abruptly sometimes, just as the conversation was getting interesting too."

    Brilliant! I love it!
    Frank
     
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    I get those calls a lot. Usually I just hang up but sometimes I have some fun with them.
     
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    Lately it's been Revenue Canada calling about our delinquent taxes......oh my, they are threatening me with jail time

    so now I wonder who will let the duct cleaning service man in if I am in jail?
     
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    The other day I got one from "Frank" and as soon as I answered the phone he said: "Hello, it's Frank...what are you doing? He sounded just like he knew me. But the only Frank I know is on this forum @Frank Sanoica....and I know he wasn't calling me. :p So I hung up on him. Then he calls again and is cursing me out for hanging up on him...so I hung up on him again...and this time when he called back I did not answer. There are some real creeps in this world.
     
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  7. Gary Ridenour

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    my wireless phone has a block feature. and i do use it
     
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  8. Chrissy Cross

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    Same here @Gary Ridenour.

    Lately I'm getting more spam on my cell phone, didn't use to but if it's a number I don't recognize I look it up and if it's a common spam number I block it...have quite a few blocked.
     
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  9. Babs Hunt

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    I'm going through my AARP Bulletin's so I can get rid of all the ones I don't need anymore and I just came across and article titled "The New Predators...Today's scam artists are on the phone, at your door and online. Here's how to fend them off."

    The Microsoft tech support scam which I spoke about in my first post is considered the biggest consumer scam in the U.S. right now. According to Microsoft, in 2015 an estimated 3.3 million people---many of them seniors---were victimized by a tech-support con, at a total cost of $1.5 billion. That's one American duped out of an average $454 nearly every 10 seconds. :(
     
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  10. Hedi Mitchell

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    Everytime we search the internet for information you are being over to handed over to many of the 90 different companies that plague us with email and phone crap ola....This was on the news year or two back.
    Everytime you fill out a form with info about you it more or less becomes public info.
    I have 2 email accounts...one is strictly for business...doctors, electric company etc....no spam! The other is for all the other...can we have your email address please. ...people...spam...lots of spam.
    Even then after unsubscribing...that box gets spam.
     
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  11. Babs Hunt

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    I agree @Gloria Mitchell. I laugh at my sister because she is afraid to join Facebook because she says they will get all her private information and yet she is always on the internet doing some shopping, etc. I told her "they" already have all her information but she still thinks she's safe because she hasn't joined FB! ;)
     
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  12. Hedi Mitchell

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    :D
     
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  13. Chrissy Cross

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    Although I don't care for Mark Zuckerberg, I think he pushes a liberal agenda on FB, I still trust Facebook.
     
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  14. Babs Hunt

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    I don't trust Facebook anymore than I trust any other site on my computer but they already have all my information and this is how I keep in touch with many of my Family members that live away from me.
     
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  15. Chrissy Cross

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    Yes, I know what you mean about trusting...I'm the same. Google is another one that knows everything about you and it's not a site you even join.
     
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