Subj : another one phishing for a bite
To : Richard Menedetter
From : August Abolins
Date : Thu Apr 09 2020 05:56 pm
Hello Richard!
** 09.04.20 - 19:20, Richard Menedetter wrote to August Abolins:
AA>> Maybe start to annoy THEM?
RM>Nope :)
"Annoy" them back is truly the best approach. This guy is hilarious:
"Telephone spam_scam problem_ Bring in the robots. _ Roger Anderson _
TEDxNaperville"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVJ4JQ3SUw
Too funny!
The phone service he mentions at the end sounds like fun to give a try.
I had an uncle who tackled these things with humour and style. "Thank you
for calling. I don't get out very much. Do you get out much? I'd love to
tell you about my aunt in the old country..." ..and he would just keep
talking or tell a story.
I do something similar, but instead of talking, I just tell them I need to
check the door.. or that I have a call coming in on the other line.. and I
place the caller on hold. There are long periods when the phone is
wonderfully free of telemarketers. But when they reoccur, a polite
"Please hold" routine seems to start reducing them again.
AA>> That one sounds very familiar. Good to know that there are solutions
AA>> that ISPs can implement. But whatever is being done, is not good
AA>> enough.
RM>Change your mail provider :)
Most of them seem to get "caught" and moved to the Junk folder on the ISP
webmail side. With basic pop/smtp I don't get bothered by the Junk folder
contents. But when I occassionally require to use the webmail login,
there is a great satisfaction to delete the Junk folder in bulk.
../|ug
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