Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Continued phone scams... 606-755-0236... how to handle these and how to handle junk mailers


I received a phone call from the subject number today. I immediately went to the 800notes website and typed the number in the field on the home page. I got this: http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-606-755-0236.  You can read all about it.  Please excuse me for the swearing on that page.  It still provided the information you need.

The following site has assorted tips on how to handle both phone scammers and land mail spammers:  http://www.yourhomenow.com/sit.html.  This web page, written by Greg Molenaar,describes how to put a SIT (Special Information Tone) tone on the front of your voice message to cause telemarketers and robocallers to think your phone is out of service.  (You've heard this tone sequence before.)  He doesn't really say how to put the tone in front of your voicemail message, so the way to do it is to sit in front of your computer with your browser on that web page.  (As another option, you could download the wav file.) Start your phone message recorder.  Click on the sound with your phone close to your computer's speakers, which will play and be recorded, and then continue with your message.  You'll have to be the judge of whether or not these beeps are an aggravation to "friendly" calls.

Greg also has some great ideas about how to handle junk mailers.  Read the article.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

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