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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 6:12 pm 
OMG, too funny. I have noticed a lot more calls, of course I don't answer, and they hang up. But I notice when it picks up.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 7:39 pm
The Do Not Call List or Registry is virtually useless and particularly against scammers. They're already breaking the law so being in violation of Do Not Call is the least of their worries. Blocking the numbers they call from is also useless. They use spoofed or randomly generated numbers and usually only use them once. In essence you wind up with a whole bunch of blocks numbers that they'll never use again so you've blocked nothing.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, October 18, 2016 - 9:00 pm
The Do Not Call registry has always been pretty useless (because the Federal Trade Commission, an agency with no real investigators, was the enforcement agency), but it seems we had a sweet period of about twenty years where the scammers didn't know that. So, thank heaven for small favors.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 4:55 am
Now that I think about it after all the announcements a few years ago about signing up on the Do Not Call Registry you rarely hear anything about it now. I checked and technically it still exists and you can still sign up but other sites express frustration with the effectiveness.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:16 am
I get calls on my land line just about every day from one who says they are with the Pioneer phone company trying to collect debt info, and the other is from one who says they are with municipal court. same message left every time
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 11:32 am
About seven or eight years ago we started getting a series of debt collector calls. Try as we might we couldn't convince the debt collectors neither of us weren't the person they were looking for and that we'd never heard of the person. Indeed we did get a call from a court clerk.....I actually double checked and called the clerk back to make sure it absolutely was a court.....and she was looking for the same person. Very helpful and friendly person and it turned out, as best either of us could tell, that the only information they had listed connected to us was the wrong phone number. The last known address of the debtor was nowhere close to ours and ours was not in her list of potential addresses. Bottom line was simply wrong number and she noted that for the record. Never heard another thing about it, even the debt collectors stopped calling.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 12:34 pm
I would have about 100 back braces by now if I called back the shipping department that needed information on where to send the brace.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 4:19 pm
Dogdoc.. you could have gone into the back brace business!
Now if you get calls wanting an address for delivery of oh a big diamond ring, or a new Tesla.. go for it!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 8:09 pm
I got in an e-mail this morning about a missed international delivery, can't rightly recall, think it was Fedex. So I turned on full headers to examine details about the sender, and the sender e-mail address ended in .ru. .ca is Canada .au is Australia. .ja is Japan. Guess what .ru is?
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 8:39 pm
Juju, it is the Russian Federation.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 9:56 am
Sea, the back brace is a scam. I never ordered the brace. They catch older people who think that some kind relative ordered them a brace.
I am sure a bill arrives with the brace.
I wouldn't mind a free diamond or Tesla.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 5:33 pm
So I was walking over to catch the free bus to Kaiser and all of a sudden the top of my foot started hurting to the degree it made me limp. At first I thought it was my ankle.
What could cause this, it was fine all day, and I didn't drop anything on it or trip or anything, it is so weird.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 6:10 pm
tendon?
I get sudden pains in my thumb and one part of a toe that I figure is arthritis maybe
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 7:02 pm
Hmm, how do you pull a tendon on the top of your foot, LOL? I figured out it only hurts when I flex my foot.
I put on an ankle support, I have then from when I used to fall off my ankles all the time, and I have been walking around and it does seem to feel better.
Oh and I took some advil, hahahaah. And Seamonkey, I get that in my one thumb as well and it is definitely arthritis.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 7:45 pm
JMM, maybe it is the Russian Figments?
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 7:53 pm
Could be, Juju. I didn't know that you had such International figments. LOL
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:16 am
There's a massive cyberattack in the US... anyone having trouble?
Paypal is not one of the sites listed, but it won't come up for me. Can anyone else try? Thanks!
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:34 am
Karuuna, I can't get into Paypal, nor Twitter (but I could get into Facebook). Where was it reported that the cyberattack is going on?
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:34 am
Thanks for checking, UncleRicky, my Twitter is down also.
Saw it on CNN...but they said it was on the east coast and over.
I'm in Colorado, and it's not over.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/21/technology/ddos-attack-popular-sites/index.html
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:35 am
Here's another article from USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/10/21/cyber-attack-takes-down-east-coast-netflix-spotify-twitter/92507806/
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:38 am
More updated, there is a fresh wave of attack on the West Coast apparently:
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:48 am
I can't log into Twitter on my work computer, but it's working fine when I access it via my iPhone.
Thank you for all the links!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:58 am
Yeah, I imagine that's through a different DNS server (for your phone).
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 11:37 am
I'm in Chicago area at home on computer. Twitter, Paypal, and Facebook are working.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, October 21, 2016 - 12:12 pm
I am West Coast, twitter and cbs and Comcast working for me, but my fav tinykitten cams are down.
Oh Facebook is working also.
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