phone scam?

[Matt Colie]

The NOMOROBO webpage address is:
https://www.nomorobo.com/[/quote]There is a fee for IPhones. Only free for VOiP "landline" services like Vonage Comcast, etc. Not even available for
"classic" landlines that are copper wire based. Android compatibility "coming soon".

I would guess most of the curmudgeons here have copper wire landlines. I happen to have Vonage, but haven't signed up. I have been using the
individual number block feature and only need to block about one additional number a month. Currently have 17 numbers blocked. It will be another
three years before I use up my allowance of blocked numbers and need to start unblocking numbers to add new ones. Or I can start using Nomorobo. Every
unrecognized number goes to the answering machine. If their number comes up more than once without leaving a message, it gets blocked. That system has
been working for me for over two years, with an average of less than one persistent scammer needing to be blocked per month.[/quote]
We have a VOiP line with out broadband carrier, and I tried to set this up when I first heard about it, but something failed.
I went at it again to day and got it. Since about noon, it has grabbed three calls.

Matt
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[Ken B]

> > We also try not to answer unknown phone numbers unless messages are left. However, sometimes I answer in German - haven't found any scammers
> > that speak that yet. Like the Internet scammers, it's a shame that criminals use a potentially wonderful information source and make it harder to
> > use safely.
>
> ... :lol: ....
> Our native language, Dutch, works also excellent ...
>
> Daniel

Wow, the only language I ever learned to speak is Korean and I haven't used it for almost 50 years. I doubt I could ever carry on a conversation if
they were to respond to my greeting.

Yoboseyo

I wonder how they would respond to that.
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Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana

 

[Daniel]

> > > We also try not to answer unknown phone numbers unless messages are left. However, sometimes I answer in German - haven't found any
> > > scammers that speak that yet. Like the Internet scammers, it's a shame that criminals use a potentially wonderful information source and make
> > > it harder to use safely.
> >
> > ... :lol: ....
> > Our native language, Dutch, works also excellent ...
> >
> > Daniel
>
> Wow, the only language I ever learned to speak is Korean and I haven't used it for almost 50 years. I doubt I could ever carry on a conversation
> if they were to respond to my greeting.
>
> Yoboseyo
>
> I wonder how they would respond to that.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

What if you tried to speak some native indian language ...
The Japanese never could break that code of the native Navajo, who did a great job during WWII ...

Daniel

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