Mrs. P Henry notes:
The shutdown brought down the National Do Not Call Registry, something she faithfully reports junk calls to.
Mysteriously, neither our land line nor our cell phones have received junk calls for the last 11 days.
Coincidence?
Early last week WiscoDave asked:
I ran across a comment at WRSA that implied “chatter” is down on various forums and his thought was that the “trolls” are absent due to the government shutdown.
Was wondering what your thoughts on this were and, if you see the same?
This is interesting.
What are your findings out there?
Are there less trolls? (If so, are they paid by the government?)
Are there less nuisance calls?
What are your findings out there?
Are there less trolls? (If so, are they paid by the government?)
Are there less nuisance calls?
It could be explained by “the holidays.”
I usually get 5 or 6 of these a day. none since the “shutdown”
Hmmm, I’ve had a couple just after Christmas but I was getting a lot until a couple of weeks ago. Mostly health insurance though, and I think the ‘window’ ended December 15th.
I never answer them, but a lot of the health insurance ones leave messages.
Now that you mention it, our land line and cell phones have not been getting the zillion junk calls either! That’s very creepy, if that’s where it’s coming from!!! Creepy regardless. I’d like to hear the Trump words “You’re FIRED”!
I have only received one on my land line from the American Heart Association since the shit down. Usually our phone rings off the hook with crap all day.
Any number I don’t recognize, I don’t answer. If no message is left, I block the number.
My blocked call log (area code omitted):
Dec 30th:
869-1895 (2:17pm)
Dec 29th:
882-2814 (8:23 AM)
882-2814 (8:49 AM)
882-2814 (2:57 PM)
882-2814 (3:30 PM)
Dec 28th:
937-2135 (1:55 PM)
Dec 27th:
937-2135 (10:47 AM)
937-2135 (8:37 PM)
Dec. 26th:
415-2660 (6:45 PM)
415-2660 (7:41 PM)
.. Silence until Dec 19th. 7 whole days I went without spam calls. Going backwards from Dec 19th, every single day I receive a spam call until Dec 9th they took the day off. Then the rest of December, every single day, I got a spam call. Every single day of November I got a spam call except Thanksgiving. Every single day of October I got spamed. September? You guessed it – Every Day – Multiple times per day.
There are numbers that I blocked YEARS ago that still call randomly.
I omitted the area code because ALL of these calls originate in my area code and some of them are just a digit or two off from my actual number. They are meant to look like local calls so you think it’s friends or family.
My wife won’t let me get rid of the damn phone, I’d love to. All it does is fuck with me.
Come to think of it, I can’t recall getting one of those “Hello, are you there?” calls since before Christmas. I was getting a couple per day up to then.
Just looked at my phone–sure enough–last nuisance call on my phone 21 Dec.
Ditto. I’m usually inundated. Since shutdown, none to a spare cell phone number and phone that I never use (!) and only two “unknown” calls to the landlines.
We still have a land line but never answer it. Every day we get 4-5 hangup calls on the answering machine until the shut down. Since then only one hang up call. That is odd because usually at Christmas the calls come earlier and more often. As for cell phones we have cheap Tracphones. I don’t want to talk to people and my DH is a Luddite. They are rarely on and we never bothered to set up voice mail. We’ll see what happens after the shut down
Of course there is another theory. Our calls dropped off after the death of George Herbert Walker Bush, former CIA prankster with lots of time on his hands. His CIA background taught him foreign accents.
“IRS very angry at you. You give money RIGHT NOW!”
😉
Yes, there absolutely are paid trolls and especially mobies everywhere online. Question is, who pays them? They’re all leftists so it could be any number of sponsors.
I’ve been getting nuisance calls from some piece of s**t whose #is 732-867-0236.
Six calls back to back first day…now just calls and nothing there. I was told by a friend that the above TELEPHONE IS UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR INVOLVEMENT IN CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND A PEDAPHELIA ring……WHAT A PIECE OF HUMAN feces.
I hope she is caught soon.
less spoofed calls than normal.
BTW, phone cos could make spoofed numbers impossible, if they wanted.
I’d be careful posting the numbers you received spam calls from; the spoofers use software that can show your caller ID any number they want, usually some innocent victim.
We have received almost no soliciting calls since the 21st. I just thought. ” Marriot Resorts” gave up on us.
If this is what a government shutdown looks like giv me more.
I hadn’t noticed but we’ll know for sure once the government get funded. If that’s the case, we should appeal to President Trump to keep that portion of the “government” shut down indefinitely. Of course that means that all those democrats will go on welfare.
The Swamp is so.much deeper than we imagined. Our government is a corrupt business, run by the left with the help of the GOPe.
Keep your powder dry.
Dang it! The warranty is just about to run out on my car and now I don’t know if they’re going to let me hear their important message.
Are there no operators standing by?
And did I use all three variations of the the word “there” correctly?