Thank you for teaching your grandmother to suck eggs. Not to mention that your response is completely unresponsive to what I wrote.
The first line of defense against phone scams is to not pick up the phone. It’s not the only line of defense. If you are suggesting I should never pick up the phone because some scammer might be spoofing the number of a friend who calls twice a week, that’s just fatuous. I have a brain in my head, and I know how to use it.
Ok, dude. Why ask questions if you don’t want discussion and opinions. I didn’t say never to answer your phone. But you do you.
A plausible response, if I had ever asked any of the questions you answered, or for someone who had not read most of the thread.
If the post below isn’t about whether to pick up phone calls, why is it in this thread? This thread is about screening phone calls, not about the various ways one can be scammed (not only by phone) by people pretending to be someone else. On top of which it is overbearing and condescending, as well as a complete non-sequitur of anything I had ever posted in this thread.
If you wanted your remarks to be part of a general discussion, it would have made more sense to not quote me in the beginning of your posts.
I found that out by looking it up.
Right, it’s always local. Some CLECs are worse than others about it. Even the big players suck: Verizon was unable to spell my name right despite it not being tricky AND being correct on the account, despite several attempts to correct it.