My wife answered a telephone call from a supposed charity. She sent them a check, so now we are on a sucker list. It turned out to be a bunch of scammers. They trade the number. They also can change the read out on the caller ID. We get five or six calls a day from these crooks. Now we do not answer the telephone if it is someone we do not know.
Lately, we have been getting calls from a Gila Corporation about a pending court matter. I looked up the number in the internet, and it is a collection agency. They are looking for someone with an Indian name. We have had this number for about 32 years, and never had a person from India living here. We just ignore their call now.
For a while, we were getting calls from an alternate energy company located across the valley. I finally told them that I do not own this house, but that I am renting it from a cousin that is working in Saudi Arabia. I finally was taken off of their sucker list.
We are thinking of unplugging the telephone and just re plugging it when we need to make a call. The scammers still can fill up our voice mail, but it is so easy to push the delete button.
HATE THAT!!!! It is using up mins that I PAID FOR!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr...............
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