[ARC5] Spammers...

[Richard Knoppow]

     I've found that most of the automatic calls reaching my answering 
machine hang up.  The phone rings until the machine starts its greeting 
but there is no message.  I don't know how this works but its fine with me.

On 4/10/2015 3:17 PM, Scott Robinson wrote:
> HI Leslie,
>
> the USA has that, too, and I signed up first day it was available. 
> Trouble is, that tow categories of callers are excluded:
>
> 1) non-profits and charities;
>
> 2) companies with which you have previously done business.
>
> I get very few commercial calls, but an appalling number of charities 
> call, generally using dialing machines. As soon as I recognize that 
> it's a machine, I hang up.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott
>
> On 4/10/15 2:43 PM, Leslie Smith wrote:
>>    In Australia we have a register that allows a household to list their
>>    phone on a 'do not call' register.
>>    The problem is that the register must be re-done every three years.
>>
>>    73 de Les Smith
>>    vk2bcu at operamail.com
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015, at 04:23, Scott Robinson wrote:
>>> Agreed about the telephone calls; I get about 6 a day, and everyone
>>> interrupts what I'm doing, even if it's only napping.
>>>
>>> Grumble.
>>>
>>> /scott
>>>
>>> On 4/10/15 10:26 AM, Kenneth G. Gordon wrote:
>>>> On 10 Apr 2015 at 10:16, Scott Robinson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Last I knew, most of the spam you get came from one of 10 
>>>>> companies in
>>>>> the good ol' USA. Remedies for this occurred to me...
>>>>>
>>>>> /scott
>>>>
>>>> Well, you are not alone. I remember reading several years ago that 
>>>> someone
>>>> in New York discovered the identity of a notorious spammer and 
>>>> killed him.
>>>>
>>>> Also, there is a very well known spammer in Texas who has made a 
>>>> lot of
>>>> money off spamming. He is a youngish fellow, who refuses to give 
>>>> interviews
>>>> to the media...with good reason. He drives some fancy foreign very
>>>> expensive car.
>>>>
>>>> My pet peeve at this point are all the cursed spamming telephone 
>>>> calls. We
>>>> get several a day.
>>>>
>>>> When I was still working, chasing viruses, etc., we discovered 
>>>> that, at that
>>>> time, the majority of really serious viruses were coming from two 
>>>> sources: 1)
>>>> the Bulgarian version of the KGB, and 2) Israel.
>>>>
>>>> Look up Stuxnet virus sometime. Very interesting reading, I assure 
>>>> you.
>>>>
>>>> Ken W7EKB
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WB6KBL