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DMiller 
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Posted: 24 Sep 2021 at 5:06am |
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Now the less than scrupulous have turned to offers of Rewards, or Free Gifts, or Earned Refunds for Cell Phone services. Currently have ATT, been receiving messages(I Will NOT answer) that state I have a refund due, or have a balance on account they need to refund. I go to the ATT site not theirs and find NADA, ZIP ZILCH, just more phishing Scam attempts. Number is never the same Area codes either, latest was from 929 NYC, previous was from Los Angeles(Long Beach) area.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 24 Sep 2021 at 6:46am |
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Yep, they're everywhere. Had the rare opportunity to spend a couple hours in the house yesterday afternoon. Damn phone rings about constantly!!!
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BPM75
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Posted: 24 Sep 2021 at 7:00am |
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Same here! I was getting as many as 25 spam calls a day this spring, slacked off a bunch and has started to get more last couple weeks. Texts, emails...it's ridiculous
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 24 Sep 2021 at 8:17am |
Same here and some are local and when you answer you don't know where it's from but is spam
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 25 Sep 2021 at 6:55pm |
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I don’t know if it’s just a US Cellular thing or not, but I get a lot of them come up as “Potential Spam” on my caller ID. They say whenever you get a spammer calling to block them. Your phone uploads blocked numbers to your service provider and eventually after enough people block them, they get added to the “Potential Spammer” list.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 25 Sep 2021 at 7:15pm |
when they call you, just say great, but my battiers dying, please, cal me back at xxx-yyyy,thanks, hangup. xxx-yyyy is the local PD NON emergency number... or just use any lawyer's number..hehehehe
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 01 Oct 2021 at 12:24pm |
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Hmm slowing down - just 11 calls so far today that were spam .
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Tbone95
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Posted: 01 Oct 2021 at 1:50pm |
 jaybmiller wrote:
when they call you, just say great, but my battiers dying, please, cal me back at xxx-yyyy,thanks, hangup. xxx-yyyy is the local PD NON emergency number... or just use any lawyer's number..hehehehe
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Quite the joke there.
Let's count the flaws: 1: Spammer ain't going to listen to you AT ALL (so, guess my next to flaws are MOOT/ what if scenario)
2: Police aren't going to take any sort of enforcement action if they were called, got much better things to do. . .which brings up. . .
3: Great, send spam calls to the police, like they need to be busy with BS.
All so truly funny.
Edited by Tbone95 - 01 Oct 2021 at 1:51pm
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Kansas99
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Posted: 01 Oct 2021 at 2:51pm |
This isn't a bad way to deal with them. 
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ac fleet
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Posted: 02 Oct 2021 at 7:26pm |
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got them here too ---- got to the point that if we dont know the number---we dont answer. Problem with that is that you do miss a few important calls, so you lose anyway you go at it.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 02 Oct 2021 at 9:21pm |
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You think that’s bad? You should see what comes into my gmail account everyday! I didn’t know I was so wanted by oriental randy women. Where were these women when I was as in high school?
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