[ale] I used to thing that MS was going to take over the world,

[Scott Plante]

My Android phone has a "Call Screen" feature, where it will answer the call
and ask the caller questions like who they are and what they want, and
display the speech-to-text to me. Recently, I've been able to have that
happen automatically if the call is not from someone in my contacts. Most
spammers hang up before answering the questions so I never see them. It
seems to be working pretty well. Our Comcast home phone has some other spam
thing where it just rings once if it's spam. My wife set that up so I don't
know what it is. Our work has an Asterisk system that requires the caller
to make some selection before any phone rings which eliminates most of
them, but a few get through. At least they're actual people though.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 3:41 PM Byron Jeff via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> How does one eliminate the spam calls? My head will explode if I get yet
> another phone call about my car's extended warranty. I don't even own a
> car! ;-) (JK).
>
> BAJ
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 03:35:42PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> > The scammers are out this week!
> >
> > I even got fired from my job yesterday, by the VP of HR of my 1-person
> > company. They CC'd the CEO, thankfully. ;)
> >
> > All this week, lots and lots of invoices for FedEx, DHL, UPS have been
> > arriving via email too.  All dropped into spam.
> >
> > Haven't gotten any spam phone calls in a few months, perhaps
> > longer, so that's been nice.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 10:36:43 -0700
> > Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2020-04-29 10:32, Jim via Ale wrote:
> > > > but I just received an email from my doctor's office that include
> > > > the following instructions:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "On your phone go to SETTINGS - SAFARI - CAMERA (change to ALLOW)
> > > > and MICROPHONE (change to ALLOW)"
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know where the SAFARI settings are on my Android phone?
> > > >
> > > > :-P
> > > >
> > > > Jim.
> > >
> > > They're under the Serengeti menu, duh.
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