In the last week I got about 4 Microsoft tech support scam phone calls in
English from someone who had an Indian accent apparently calling from a call
center in India or elsewhere. It is a well known
scamhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/protect-yourself-from-tech-support-scams-2ebf91bd-f94c-2a8a-e541-f5c800d18435And
I got 5 packages from online shops where someone entered my name and my
address and ordered something - among the products are a large screen TV and a
$500 jacket. If the scammer is successful the package is delivered to a
neighbor where he can again pretend to be the victim in order to get the
product for free, while the victim gets the invoice. The deceived shop gets no
money. Of course it is criminal to do that. I used to think whenever something
is happening in nature it is either supper or pairing time. Now I tend to think
whenever something is happening it is something selfish. Or evil. There is so
much evil in this world, isn't it?-J.
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to the non-posting 95% This all reminds me of a point I *thought* Jon made
about the death of the DJ. But now I can't find that post. A friend of mine
insists he hates the radio. On the surface, it sounds like a typical complaint
about being "constantly interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about
toilet paper". But I think it goes deeper ... into QAnon territory. Being
*part* of the game, as opposed to a mere consumer of it, is an important part
of social reality. Some of us spend more time in a state of transcendent calm,
content to watch or ignore some process. Others tend to get in and stir things
up, send out rhizomes. Some of us feel helpless when the dancing rabbits come
on, our individualism shattered. Some of us revel in the absurdity of it. And
some of us sing along because the jingle is an ear worm.Scammers robocall me at
least once per day. Inspired by the many scambaiters on youtube, I almost
always press 1 to get my credit card rate lowered or to get that refund for the
MacBook I didn't buy and have a long-ish conversation with them. After several
attempts to get me to tell them my CC number [⛧], the "manager" yesterday
finally told me to "fvck off". I'm like "You called me!?!" And he hung up. Ha!
My time is even less precious than theirs. I can't help but wonder what his
"employees" lives are like. Was the 1st guy on the call just as much a victim
of his boss as I am? More? Or do they all live like Kings from the thousands of
dollars they steal from the elderly?[⛧] We have this terrible noise problem on
our landline that's not due to unfiltered DSL. Renee' wants me to get rid of
it. I'm not motivated to because it helps me tease the scammers. "Is that noise
on your end? Hang on, let me try something ... [set the phone down and reduce
some sim output] ... Is that better? Oh well, now what were you asking?"On
1/28/21 9:29 AM, Steve Smith wrote:> I don't let my spam filter automatically
file my spam... I visually> scan the subjects and senders and depend on my
peripheral vision to> notice spam markers... if something is suspected spam but
*isn't* I> notice pretty close to real-time which means that there isn't a lot
of> negative reinforcement for false-positives. I also try to be> thoughtful
about what I mark as spam... I don't for example, call things> I simply am not
interested in as spam. Before I do a "delete spam" or> "move marked to spam
folder" I scan again, just on principle... I *very*> rarely catch anything in
that scan but you know "belt and suspenders"....> > I try to limit who I
"subscribe" to and then whack-a-mole the allies> that seem to spill over.
ActBlue and/or ButtigeigForPrez and/or> BernieIsSoCoolItHurts seem to have
gleefully given my e-mail address to> another half-dozen or so other campaigns
(DitchMitch, MakeGeorgiaBlue,> OMGtheRedStatesAreComing, etc.) who then flooded
me. For a while they> were a hydra it seemed... and I WAS tempted to
overtrain my spam filter> and send it direct to a folder or trash but got
through it without doing> that. > > Finally, after November I started
unsubscribing from the campaigns I> knew I'd opted into (even if by sly
accident) and included an admonition> that if THEY were the source of all the
side-spam, they should rethink,> because it ended up *inhibiting* my support
for their cause(s)... though> I am not sure that was very significant.On
1/28/21 9:18 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:> Some readers want novelty -- they are
channel flippers -- and others are looking for an activity or even a process.
And then there is a range in between. I'd guess Roger and Nick on opposite
ends of that spectrum. I'm a channel flipper until I see something that looks
like an itch to scratch or something to puzzle over -- a good distraction.--
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