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1 posted on 03/29/2022 10:53:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Better tip: don’t click on any headline from CBS. LOL


2 posted on 03/29/2022 10:55:06 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: BenLurkin

Getting calls from people “you called me?” My number’s being spoofed.


3 posted on 03/29/2022 10:55:12 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: BenLurkin

I talk to myself. I have never gone as far as texting myself.


4 posted on 03/29/2022 10:57:48 AM PDT by cableguymn
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To: BenLurkin

Got one of these just this morning.


8 posted on 03/29/2022 11:05:35 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: BenLurkin

I got one. I copied the text of the message and popped it into a text editor and took out the URL then pasted that into a browser. It was a total BS “rewards” scam ostensibly from Verizon. Delete, delete, delete.


9 posted on 03/29/2022 11:05:58 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Imagine, if you will, a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it. )
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To: BenLurkin

I received one of those and promptly blocked me from texting me anything.

(Seriesly...I did get one and deleted it. Weirdest thing.)


10 posted on 03/29/2022 11:06:01 AM PDT by moovova
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I am epileptic; I often text to myself as reminders of what I need to do in the next few hours...


12 posted on 03/29/2022 11:09:46 AM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: BenLurkin

I am puzzled by the fact that the article does not mention Verizon’s number for forwarding spam: 7726

Perhaps that is not the number for all Verizon customers, though. I have no idea.


13 posted on 03/29/2022 11:09:55 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: BenLurkin

For as much money as a cell phone line costs, these companies can sure do something about the spam texts and calls.


15 posted on 03/29/2022 11:11:05 AM PDT by Nifty
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Just got a call from a fellow with a heavy Indian accent who wanted to sell me a burial plan.
I told him I plan to live forever and not ever die so there is no need, and that Jesus is coming to get us that trust Him in mid May.
He said he believed the same thing!
We determined that we were family and would see each other in the air very soon =)
21 posted on 03/29/2022 11:39:53 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: BenLurkin

New song from 80’s Rocker Billy Idol: “Texting W/Myself!”


23 posted on 03/29/2022 11:45:11 AM PDT by lee martell
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Got exactly this text, Verizon, iPhone, "from" my own number, last night.

Didn't click. Showed my wife, in case she gets one. Deleted it.

Bastages, I hate them, I hate them all.

26 posted on 03/29/2022 12:27:43 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: BenLurkin

I occasionally get phone calls from myself as well as emails.

I never respond because I know how boring I am to talk to or correspond with.


27 posted on 03/29/2022 1:02:58 PM PDT by euram
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I get emails saying ‘they’ have been monitoring my pc and to pay up or ‘they’ will tell the world my secrets.....


29 posted on 03/29/2022 2:16:27 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy gas)
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How to get rid of telemarketing.
Owners get 500k fine and 10 years in federal prison.
Manager get 250k fine and 5 years in federal prison.
Workers get 100k fine a 1 year in federal prison.
India has 30 days to stop telemarketing calls or we start shipping home H1B visa holders. ,10% of them a month.
If calls persist we shut all incoming and outgoing calls to India.


30 posted on 03/29/2022 2:18:12 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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