Posted on 06/06/2022 5:12:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble
We kept our landline when we first got our cellphones, in case the power goes out. Landlines should still work, unless trees knock out a bunch of telephone poles in the area during an ice storm.
But I think cellphones can work in power outage if there are several towers are close by... many towers now have batteries to function. And when the cellphone battery is low, we can use the car battery to charge the phones.
I have a landline. It costs me 39 dollars a month. I have seen cell phones cost quite a bit more.
My landline company (Cox) has a thing called Nomorobo which blocks some but it is very annoying. I see someone on here said ‘just see if you recognize the number and if you don’t don’t answer the call’.
The problem with this is you have to constantly go to the phone and look to see who is calling. 99 percent of the time it is a robo caller. It’s maddening. Remember the ‘do not call’ list thing, that I am on. Does nothing. When are they going to address this?!
Starlink is looking better and better.
We need to get a landline because we don’t have good cell coverage here and when we try to call 911, it doesn’t go through unless I’m standing on the back porch.
911 calls won’t go through wi-fi because they can’t triangulate off it and that’s a problem because so many 911 calls end up in VT instead of NH. In addition to the regular power outages which leave us with NOTHING.
So we really need a landline here. What I would do is just turn off the ringer and leave it for outgoing calls only.
Or when your Chinese relative in in a Chinese jail and needs money?
11 seconds.
I set my ringtones to various rings.
My favorites list, the one I would answer any time, any where, is one.
My general contact list of businesses and doctors, and casual acquaintances, get another.
Everyone else gets Verizon’s annoying default ringtone that I know I can ignore anytime and any where.
Yeah, it took some time to set the ringtones, but hey, what else are you going to do in a doctor’s waiting room waiting for your 5 minutes with him?
Chat up the hot chick next to you and hear about all her STDs?
I’ll turn my phone off or ringer off in an office setting such
as doctors, etc. I don’t feel obligated to answer all calls so
I pick and choose. These robo calls are getting to be annoying.
My son used to get these cheap cell phones. Not sure what he was paying though but I suspect it wasn’t much more than $40 a month but I could be wrong.
I still have a landline also but I only use it for outgoing calls and turn ringer off. At times I find a good ol’ landline convenient for handsfree calling.
Landline is just too annoying to have to rely on exclusively for incoming calls plus no text, email access or internet while one is on the run.
anybody can, but what are the odds?
and if he already has it, no mention was made...
you can also blacklist/block unknown calls
but you knew that
A new dentist or doctor will leave a voicemail. I live in an apartment, so my plumber is the maintenance guy. All he has to do is show up at my door, after I call the landlord's office.
It doesn't work anyway. I regularly added my cell phone and landline to it, but it never stopped the calls. It's just another government plan, paid by taxpayers, that didn't do what it was supposed to.
While FedGov and the telephony industry drags the issue out, at our ongoing collective expense, at least we can enjoy that there are some out there taking matters VERY much into their own hands and dealing VERY direct pain and anguish.
Enjoy this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DatifVfpYck
thx, love the scammer videos... Pirogi is my favorite
Thanks!!
Most of these calls are from overseas, mainly India. They spoof US numbers.
Absolutely welcome.
If you like Trilogy Media, also check out Jim Browning, and YouTube will also serve up links to videos from others who are giving scammers endless grief.
Even Mark Rober of porch pirate glitter-bomb fame has gone to India to grieve scam operations in person.
The kicker is that the same software the scammers are using to try to get into your computer; if they can see your computer, you could see theirs if you knew where to look.
Its a two-way street, and they rely on your ignorance of that to make their score. Savvy types are luring scammers to connect to a Virtual Machine, letting the scammer think they have a good target, then they pretend to be old, and slow, and drag everything out while they quietly ruin the scammer’s computer working backward over the same connection the scammer is using to try and pull off their heist.
Yes. Loads of fun.
You know that guy “Jaani” is a former scammer, now working against them. He’s still in India, and works as an in-country mole for the Trilogy guys.
Even Mark Rober (Engineer, you tuber, did the “Devil’s toothpaste” stuff, and the porch pirate glitter bombs) — even he took a team to India to grieve these scamming operations.
They even hacked into the CCTV inside the scam call center to watch their pranks unfold live.
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