On Monday, March 10, 2014 5:25:42 PM UTC-7, Nil wrote:
On 10 Mar 2014, Mark Lloyd wrote in

alt.home.repair:



Obvious fakes. A lot of the calls I get have the Caller ID "name"

field set to the same thing as "number". Sometimes, it's "V"

followed by a bunch of digits.



I've been keeping a manual log spreadsheet of junk calls for the past

couple of years. Volume is actually way down lately from its last peak

about 6 months ago. Some of the recent ones include the V-number thing

you mention:



number caller ID description

717-203-8889 Albright Amber Card Member Services

360-322-6708 Marysville WA Credit card scammer

978-664-5909 North Reading MA Diamond Plumbing & Heating

971-208-9936 Salem OR energy savings

212-660-5351 New York NY medical alert scam

12-022-0404 unknown Indian computer repair scammer

857-776-3089 Children's Cance bogus charity

202-769-0477 POLLRSRCH13 "political call"

202-817-2940 Washington DC

212-660-5351 New York NY medical alert scam

585-362-4105 Volt Delta LLC verifying phone number

202-769-0477 POLLRSRCH13 "political call"

706-805-1788 Unknown selling solar panels

202-817-2940 V22618251300482 donations

717-608-7443 Cell Phone PA lower interest rate

202-817-2940 V22618251300482 donations

202-817-2940 V30319095500482 donations

877-218-8360 800 Service Childrens Cancer Recovery

951-256-6169 Gray Karen Card Services



Most of the phone numbers only occur once and I never see them again.

That's why it's not useful to use my phone service's "block number"

feature. Every once in a while the same number will keep calling again

over a period of time - at that time I block the number. I'm sure that

number would stop being used eventually, anyway.

Hah another one like me! On advice of my Congressman's office, I also kept a list. Just threw it away the other day.

The calls I get a LOT these days are less from telemarketers than from locals: contractors, plumbers, handymen -- all related to house repairs. I try to be polite, but sometimes they don't get the message to take me off their lists. I know they're trying to make a buck, but at the same time they're invading my privacy. I must get more determined about not answering unknowns.