Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Download Robotkiller. It works
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Careful doing this.
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So, be careful trying to mess with scamerers, it could bite you in the butt. |
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I don’t know if the iPhone feature “Silence Unknown Callers” can stop the junk texts. Try “Settings”, “Phone”, turn on “Silence Unknown Callers”. If that doesn’t work, post your results. If that method to filter out junk texts doesn’t work, hopefully, Apple could add that as a new feature. No one wants to receive junk texts. That feature does work to stop junk telephone calls. |
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I just found a possible solution to your junk texts. On the “iPhone”, “Settings”, “Messages”, turn on “Filter Unknown Senders”. That looks like it should stop the junk text messages.
If you have an “Android” cellphone, replace it with an IPhone. |
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We could stop this in a year if we all agreed to only vote for a presidential candidate who promised to stop spam calls and emails. Pass a law making a $1000 fine per instance of spam calls and emails, and let bounty hunters catch the spammers. $500 to the bounty hunter and $500 to the US treasury. This would make a lot of new millionaires and zero out the budget deficit in one fell swoop.
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But there are ways you can stop those junk callers from annoying you, if you choose to do that. Or, you can keep putting up with the junk callers! Every month and every year, there will be more and more junk callers. Those companies only need to make money on a very tiny fraction of the people who fall for the advertising or scam. Filtering out the junk callers is dirt cheap, if it saves you thousands or hundreds of thousands to prevent a scam that could have cost you or a vulnerable person that you know. |
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I got a call from some guy with a terrible accent telling me my computer was infected and that he could repair it. I started calling him every four letter word I know and questioned his parentage, sexual preferences, honesty and intelligence. When I hung up he was spitting and sputtering, couldn't get out an intelligible word.
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Spam calls and texts drive us all crazy. I have found that blocking a number is ineffective and, in fact, it establishes you as a legitimate number and increases the number of spam calls/texts. I learned long ago not to answer any number I do not recognize on caller ID. If it’s important they will leave a message. On your cell phone you can silence unknown callers and I get a pop up that states “potentially spam” to numbers recognized by my carrier as such. I have a landline with a phone made by AT&T. I have put all of my important numbers in its directory. Should my phone ring with a robo call it doesn’t ring. Callers that are not programmed into my phone will receive a recording saying you have reached a phone with smart block, state your name. Callers have the option to do so, I hear their name from the phone’s speaker. I am instructed to press 1 if I wish to take the call. It works like a charm. It has cut back my nuisance calls by 95%. It was worth the cost of the phone which was around $95 with 4 handsets. With elections approaching and calls increasing I am so happy to have this phone.
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I'm waiting for my 19th call informing me that this is my final opportunity to extend the warranty on a car that I no longer own before my option to do so ends...I love jerking the chain of the heavy accented guy that wants to fix my computer remotely, I tell him to hold on for a couple of seconds and just leave him hanging on the line for awhile
I usually answer the cell calls, as not all of my doctor's phone lines are in my contact list I too have just started to receive 'spam' texts....I just delete them |
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There was a new law passed at the end of 2019 to address robocalls. It toughened the penalty but more importantly required the phone companies to install anti-spoofing software in their system. This should detect when callers are not showing the actual phone number they are using. The roll out of this improvement is ongoing now.
The law also directs the FCC to " to create rules that will help protect subscribers from receiving unwanted texts or robotexts, which are also plaguing smartphone users." The present head of the FCC is Ajit Pai who spent some of his career at a lawyer for Verizon and is viewed as a friend of the telecom industry and a foe of regulation of that industry. It will be interesting to see what new regulations the FCC suggests. At least Congress has shown some interest in helping with your spam text problem. |
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Limit on the number of phone number available to scammers
That is correct. They only have 9,999,999,999.
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Well, unless you have 62.5 more years to live, you'll never be able to see them run out of numbers. They have them in the millions.
Just sayin'. |
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I recently got a call from my wife's phone number ... and she was standing next to me. And I have attempted to stop the scam by calling the number back ... and they are someone whose number was used and they have no idea why. I hate to say we need the government to make it illegal ... because "government as the solution" is an anathema .. but that's the only thing I can think of.
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I have found that typing in response to any text messages in CAPS....STOP.... I usually then receive another text message stating UNSUBSCRIBED .....and it has stopped a majority of text messages. The insurance to have my car repairs covered was stopped when I told them I have 300,000 miles on my car. We have to accept that when solution is found another will be discovered to counter it....the world of computers. How did we live without them?? THE GOOD OLD DAYS!!
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