Clearly you’ve left millions abandoned and failed a foreign dignitary who would have paid you a generous fee to help. I’m going to start dialing all 10k possible numbers back immediately.
A show I once watched made a joke about that in an episode.
There was a character who kept on talking throughout the episode about how they were in communication with someone about a large sum of money if they help. The only time someone commented on that was that it’s a scam. At the end of the episode, the person was fabulously wealthy.
(Of course, this ignores several technicalities such as processing time, an investigation by the IRS when they smell that someone is wealthy, tax, etc…)
@snapster Get your minions (@shawn - you may have a new challenge) working on a phone dialing spam bot immediately. Once you find the right extension you will then become fabulously wealthy with far less hassle factor than running your current business conglomerate and dealing with us and our begging for cat shirts, private email functions, fukus instead of fukos, knives and speaker docks and $200 folding shopping carts for $10… Think of the possibilities. : )
@thismyusername I’ve resisted using them since hearing about too many cases of hijacked (spoofed) number owners finding 800notes non-responsive to removing them from their bad-player list. (In other words, innocent players falsely listed.)
@RedOak you seem to think it is something that it is not.
Since people are spoofing the number and calling people from the spoofed numbers, why on earth would you not want it listed? the whole point of the site is so people can report what they got when they answered the phone from a specific number.
Using your logic all the scammers would have to do is request that their numbers be taken down so they could continue to scam people.
@thismyusername I am trying to ascertain the benefit of the site. If I got a call from Saint Catherine, Jamaica, I am merely not going to answer it. I am not going to look it up to confirm I shouldn’t answer it. Nor am I am going to look it up after the fact to make sure I made the right decision in not answering it. If it turns out that it is a call from Uncle Floyd who, unbeknownst to me, moved to Jamaica, he will leave a message and I will either call back and/or know that it is okay to answer next time. That is going to be pretty much be the approach for any number/name I do not recognize.
I guess I can confirm, “Hey, somebody else got a similar bogus phone call from this number. Misery loves company”, but that doesn’t really have value for me.
Stock Android has caller ID (to an extent) built into the phone. If a number shows up as suspected spam, I just ignore and block (and add to a “contact” listing filled with spam numbers so that any phone I use in the future to replace my current one will have the numbers saved as spam).
It has on occasion also helped me by identifying stores numbers when they call me, so I don’t miss the calls.
It’s not perfect (relying solely on this caller ID), but it does the job.
No, sorry about that, I think you double-posted and then, as I was deleting one of your topics, you deleted the other one.
@dave sorry for the confusion - I deleted the post because I screwed it up. Then I reposted it. You were too fast!
@RedOak
@f00l is so sorry
You double-posted and then
Got double-deleted.
Clearly you’ve left millions abandoned and failed a foreign dignitary who would have paid you a generous fee to help. I’m going to start dialing all 10k possible numbers back immediately.
@snapster You must be bored.
Soooo … when is meh going to sell a catshirt?
@snapster I was thinking it was that I had forgetten a package at the hotel the last time we visited.
(A cab driver offered local “currency” in exchange for us shipping him some difficult to locate old motorcycle parts)
@snapster
A show I once watched made a joke about that in an episode.
There was a character who kept on talking throughout the episode about how they were in communication with someone about a large sum of money if they help. The only time someone commented on that was that it’s a scam. At the end of the episode, the person was fabulously wealthy.
(Of course, this ignores several technicalities such as processing time, an investigation by the IRS when they smell that someone is wealthy, tax, etc…)
@RedOak Drugs. He means “drugs”
@snapster I’d be happy to take on, say, a thousand of those calls for a small fee, perhaps a percentage of the payoff?
@snapster Get your minions (@shawn - you may have a new challenge) working on a phone dialing
spambot immediately. Once you find the right extension you will then become fabulously wealthy with far less hassle factor than running your current business conglomerate and dealing with us and our begging for cat shirts, private email functions, fukus instead of fukos, knives and speaker docks and $200 folding shopping carts for $10… Think of the possibilities. : )800 notes is your friend.
http://800notes.com/
@thismyusername I’ve resisted using them since hearing about too many cases of hijacked (spoofed) number owners finding 800notes non-responsive to removing them from their bad-player list. (In other words, innocent players falsely listed.)
@RedOak your loss bud… it’s just like reviews, you look through the data and make a determination.
@thismyusername just a matter of principle. Not a fan of endorsing a site that is mismanaged to the point of ruining folks and businesses lives.
They shouldn’t be publishing if they aren’t willing or able to provide the resources to edit bad info.
You might feel differently if your business were the victim of a false report due to a scumbag spammer spoofing your business number.
@RedOak you seem to think it is something that it is not.
Since people are spoofing the number and calling people from the spoofed numbers, why on earth would you not want it listed? the whole point of the site is so people can report what they got when they answered the phone from a specific number.
Using your logic all the scammers would have to do is request that their numbers be taken down so they could continue to scam people.
@thismyusername
Spoofers are not going to waste time taking down a number. They simply move on.
The problem is spoofers use numbers temporarily and move on.
There’s no process for taking down a number no longer being spoofed.
We simply ignore calls we don’t recognize and if it is legit they’ll leave a voicemail.
Why even spend the energy to search a number?
@RedOak
Exactly what I do. If the phone # is not in my address book, the phone never rings.
@thismyusername I am trying to ascertain the benefit of the site. If I got a call from Saint Catherine, Jamaica, I am merely not going to answer it. I am not going to look it up to confirm I shouldn’t answer it. Nor am I am going to look it up after the fact to make sure I made the right decision in not answering it. If it turns out that it is a call from Uncle Floyd who, unbeknownst to me, moved to Jamaica, he will leave a message and I will either call back and/or know that it is okay to answer next time. That is going to be pretty much be the approach for any number/name I do not recognize.
I guess I can confirm, “Hey, somebody else got a similar bogus phone call from this number. Misery loves company”, but that doesn’t really have value for me.
@DrWorm @thismyusername
Stock Android has caller ID (to an extent) built into the phone. If a number shows up as suspected spam, I just ignore and block (and add to a “contact” listing filled with spam numbers so that any phone I use in the future to replace my current one will have the numbers saved as spam).
It has on occasion also helped me by identifying stores numbers when they call me, so I don’t miss the calls.
It’s not perfect (relying solely on this caller ID), but it does the job.
@thismyusername clearly it’s too complicated, so for all those who can’t understand what it is for, please do not visit.
This double post deletion efficiency shall cease immediately!
@Mehrocco_Mole
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/celebrate-mediocrity-1
@narfcake
Kinda awesome vid. Is that possibly an altered Ford Focus?
@f00l Nope. It was a MS platform Kia Optima.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediocrity_(advertising_campaign)
@Mehrocco_Mole woohoo I’m exceptional at limbo
@mollama you SURE you can get under that???