[Ham-Computers] Link: Re: Supposed Pending Change to Email Handling At AOL.COM & CS.COM

[KD7JYK DM09]

> What bothers me is that AOL/Compuserve haven't bothered to inform their
> support people that this has been going on.  And they haven't bothered to
> send any warnings to all of their subscribers.

I can't count the number of email, and telephone calls I get per month, 
from what appears to be 100% legit companies, that aren't, with contact 
info, email, telephone numbers, you name it, where the "right people", 
answer with the "right words", that not only aren't in the county, they 
have nothing to do with the company they claim, and even change several 
times a month.  Most recently was "Amazon", at the rate of 100+ calls 
per day, all from different numbers, none legit, none amazon, for about 
three weeks straight, then they stopped.  I figure a newbie in the scam 
game, or a defect in their dialer.  Rather than dial 10,000 people from 
one fake number, they dialed my one number, from ten thousand fake 
originating lines.  Either way, they got no-where, their scam failed, 
and my answering machine got some exercise.

The number you called, may have nothing to do with anything.  For 
example, I could post my number to the forum, and answer with your name. 
  Who, except people that know you, and your number, would know it's me, 
and not you?  Along that line, I've had conversations, online, with 
"friends", while they are here with me watching, or with another friends 
having breakfast, telling me they are in front of them, and asking who 
exactly I'm talking with.  It's pretty crazy, and gets worse by orders 
of magnitude, almost daily.

If you don't mind, send me the number(s), I'll check it out, if legit, 
great, if not, I'll have fun.  I have much of the same types of 
equipment they do, and can play the same games, at their expense.  I've 
shut down both the "IRS", and "Microsoft" callcenters in the past, both 
in roughly 1.5 minutes.  They crash, I get my jollies, and thousands of 
people aren't scammed.  Win-win.

Kurt