On 07/20/2018 11:26 AM, Mayayana wrote:

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Few are legit. So I just ignore them, unless
they're someone I know. The few people who get
blocked can leave a message. The whole thing
used to drive me crazy when I answered each call.
Now I use a lot of email and usually only need to
glance at the phone when it rings.

Many of the junk calls I get are identified with a city (rather than
someone's name). I don't answer those but give the caller a chance to
leave a message before blocking the number. Junk callers seldom do.

Thursday, a got a surprise. A legitimate call from my city name. It was
a notice about a county-wide burn ban. So "city name" calls aren't 100%
junk, just about 99.5%.

Other IDs I see with junk calls are "TOLL FREE CALL" and
excessively-generic business names (like "JKL Partners").

| I'll repeat it in case the thread wander has diverted attention from it,
| but I still suspect the answer's no (as I can't think how it would
| work), but: anyone think of a way we could upload something to their
| systems? (If only a list of numbers to call - including the private
| lines of their prime minister and the heads of crime families, and every
| police station in their country ...)

I don't see how that might be possible. You're
on a phone call. There's no server connection
going on.

I won't let any unknown person have access to my computer.


Were you thinking of a case where they want
access to your computer? Even then, if you let them
run some kind of remote desktop, you'd have to be
a very clever hacker with knowledge of bugs in
that software to attack them back.




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