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JoAnn
June 18, 2024
Thank you.
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I see these scams on Facebook. In fact, there was one on there yesterday. Someone commented asking a few legitimate questions. I answered the person, letting that person know it it appears to be a scam and that the person was probably trying to steal money from the person. I stated that if it were a legitimate business, the name of this new business would have been given as well as the location and telephone number. As soon as I did this, the post was blocked. Several months ago, there was another on stating that it is connected to Frontier Internet and that the job was to sell equipment to people and the pay was really high. I contacted Frontier and they could tell it was a scam and the person they would investigate it. Then I commented on the scam post stated that Frontier was investigating it...the post disappeared! (I always go onto the scammer's Facebook page and it's always quite obvious that it's a scammer. When the internet first came out, it was wonderful for many years for various reasons. But during the last 10 years, it's gotten terrible because of these scammers. Hey, maybe these scammers should get free room and board for life...IN PRISON! That way, it would deter a lot of them!
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Common Law
June 20, 2024
Please adjust your advice for fraudulent calls not in contacts to be merely silenced instead of being sent straight to voicemail. Many of the fraudsters don’t stay on the line long enough to leave a voicemail at the end of four rings, but will leave a message if you send the call to voicemail after just one ring.
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Truth.
June 21, 2024
In reply to Please adjust your advice… by Common Law
Good advice. I do this and haven't had a problem since. They hang up in seconds if they get that far. Contacts only setting stops 99% of them for me. I've got one "debt collector" who tried daily I never hear from now ;)
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Kat
June 27, 2024
I have been getting so many of these it's ridiculous not to mention the amount of phone calls and they're all intertwined and now I found out just a moment ago that they are now using one of my social media names I don't know how that's possible because I am getting register it as a business or LLC or copyrighted or all three and I will definitely be taking legal action I've actually started to record all of the calls out of sheer curiosity to see how many different area codes phone numbers because you can tell they're all very similar
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