<div dir="ltr"><div>Nick. Know that you not alone on robodialers. A youtuber from canada called [different from Linus the Linux guy maker]. This linus runs a company called LKMG it basically does reviewes and industry side back end work.. He has a 20 minut long rant about the problem. What set him off was how he owns something call team viewer, and is fine with the version he has. However their PR, Beta, sales marketing, everyone people for several months called first at 10 [first not home, then was ish but busy with setting his companies computers up for remote work. First it was 10, then 9, then eventually 4-5am. So he called them and read them riot act. and eventually tolled them on twitter do this again and he'll see them in court. <br></div><div>Today I had 10 calls in a row, about your car insurance, at 7am. I was asleep then! <br></div><div>Reported the number to Google as spam, it's whack-a-mole.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:18 PM Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nick Fwiw. Me being, me. I for a bit I used this clip to stop robodiallers. because it seemed amusing and appropriate: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww</a></div><div>I guess it worked for about 12 weeks didn't get a single spam call.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:12 PM Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com" target="_blank">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Sounds nobel prize worthy! <br></div><div>aaaah sounds of "fast" internet in the 80s:</div><div>nee-nee-nee-neeh-krrrr-hisss-static-
static-
static-
static- pop his screech pop. <br></div><div>My "fix" for robocalls is to let people I know msg me, i tend to screen calls because of them-it works for all but 1 person. lol she calls it the most zoomer thing, and please call, because she spends her life on zoom atm.</div><div><br></div><div>lol 😂 now, steve, how do you get calls when Tmobile or Verizon is them? or worse your cellphones battery is out? have a old school back up? or no?<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:49 AM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" target="_blank">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Spam/Robo calls have driven me (long ago) to virtually never
having my ringer on or answering my phone when it does ring unless
the caller is in my contact list AND I know who it is. I can
hardly remember how I coped with my landline in this regard which
I let go nearly 20 years ago.</p>
<p>FWIW I had a co-worker/friend who left LANL about 1984 to go work
for a budding RoboCall company... She was a very clever/capable
woman with a lot of humility and wit, but in spite of her
self-deprecating description of the job/work, she took it
anyway. I suspect it may have been a stepping stone for her to
solve the 2-body problem with her husband who perhaps was about to
accept a job in a particular geographic locale where this may have
been located. Such a job would be the obvious/ideal telework job,
but it *was* 1984 (Orwell references aside) and the state of the
art seemed to be luggable thermal-print terminals with 1200 baud
modems, so maybe not. I can't even remember her last name, or
I'd go look her up and grill her on how all that turned out for
her!<br>
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<div>TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!!</div>
<div>Edd Angel uses nomo robo. because I mostly use a cellphone
as my number would get at least that many multiple times a
day, even spam texts! that cost real money. It got so fucking
bad I joke that I have PTSD from them. I'm trying <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youmail.android.vvm" target="_blank">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youmail.android.vvm</a>
for my cellphone with ok results. Just ok. It's free. <br>
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<div>Try something that's free. Or at least has a free trial
before dropping 70 bucks to block numbnut spamers and
collection callers and that free cruise. Or some IRS scam from
the same 20 people in india.</div>
<div>I don't know how good century links thing is. </div>
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<div>I "love" when they call at 6am. Almost funny because it's
probly the same parastic leaches. The even "better" part is
that it's not legal. Tmobiles built phone robo calling thing
is almost useless I can tell you that much. It's so comically
bad I know when I've reinstalled or updated android because it
feels like seconds before I find out all the free cruise after
selling a soul or 2. And unlikely to actually be free to. It's
like browsing the web without an addblocker. My favorite is no
matter how many creative ways I find to curse and motherfuck
them and tell them to take me off the spam list? I could be
shouting at a wall for how well it works. Ie it does about
jack. <br>
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AM <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" target="_blank">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>>
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<p>Ok. I’m pissed. 4 spam calls before 9 this morning.
<a href="https://www.centurylink.com/accessories/" target="_blank">Century Link is
offering me a call blocker for 70 bucks,</a> which
seems to be a bit CHEAPER than Amazon for the same
object. Do these things work, or is buying one just
going to make me angrier when the calls keep coming
anyway?</p>
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