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Old October 9th 18, 09:04 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Frank Slootweg
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Default A new scam

Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-10-09 14:25, nospam wrote:
In article , Wolf K
wrote:

'800 service' is generic and suggests spam, but isn't always.

That sounds like a junk call, like "TOLL FREE CALL". Do you have any
idea why phones won't block calls by "NAME"? It would help a lot with
these junk calls

caller id only sends the number.

the name is obtained by a cnam lookup by the destination central office
and only for landlines. if there is no name info in the database for
the number, it will show something generic. it can also be wrong.

On both our cell and landline phones, if the cell number is in your
phone's contact list, Caller ID will use that.

then you have an unusual landline phone.

Just a cordless phone (one base, three handsets) with contact list
facility.


in other words, not a normal phone.


All cordless phones available here have this facility. Can't recall when
they didn't, must be a decade or two by now.


And they don't have to be cordless either.

and if the name isn't in the contacts list, which a spammer would not,
then it shows the cnam dip.


Well, of course.


We don't do dips and surely no CNAM dips!
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