[ale] sound and picture

[DJ-Pfulio]

Spoofing caller ID is pretty easy. I get more calls from spoofed numbers than
from real numbers these days. For $1.95, you can have a number in any areacode
in the north American region (any +1 number). Blocking is pretty easy with all
the android apps that do that. I might hear a chirp ring, if that, but nothing
more for blocked or "unknown caller" numbers.

Plus I have a 1-number that rings everywhere, so if I'm at home and both lines
don't ring, I know they are a phone-spammer. I've never given out any other
numbers except the 1-number.

I've been meaning to replace my google voice number with my own setup (my cheap
voip provider can ring multiple other lines for inbound calls).

Oh. and Vancouver is a beautiful city - nice aquarium too. No place in the world
has a lock on idiots. We have our share and sometimes I only need look in the
mirror to see one. ;)


On 01/26/2016 08:44 AM, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> Jim,
> the 604 area code is for Vancouver, B.C.  I doubt the nut case is
> actually willing to travel quite that far. :)
> 
> Sean
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2016-01-26 at 07:52 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Please note the OP email is AOL. My Gmail flagged it as spam as AOL mail
>> failed the out bound message as not a real AOL sourced message.
>>
>> Spam. Troll. Waste of time.
>>
>> I got a phone call a week back from a new user who wanted to debate whether
>> Linux systems stored passwords vs other OS's that don't. He kept referring
>> to "back when Linux was more popular than it is now" .  After I tried to
>> correct his misunderstanding of how passwords are used, he threatened to
>> "come to Atlanta and beat me up". I hung up. The number was from area code
>> 604.