Identity Theft - Lakes Region

Slickcraft · 01-15-2023, 09:28 AM

We never answer our house phone, ringer is shut off. If it is a legit call, they can leave a message. We use Ooma which is a VOIP service. Ooma does a good job of blocking most spam and any spam calls that get through usually do not leave a message.

Answering spam calls may add your number to a list of potential suckers.

Gmail does a pretty good job of blocking spam. For our local email we use Thunderbird as an application. The default is to block remote content in messages. That way the sender is not informed that the spam went to a working email address.

Alan

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01-15-2023, 09:28 AM	#1
Slickcraft Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Welch Island and The Taylor Community Posts: 3,311 Thanks: 1,230 Thanked 2,099 Times in 958 Posts	We never answer our house phone, ringer is shut off. If it is a legit call, they can leave a message. We use Ooma which is a VOIP service. Ooma does a good job of blocking most spam and any spam calls that get through usually do not leave a message. Answering spam calls may add your number to a list of potential suckers. Gmail does a pretty good job of blocking spam. For our local email we use Thunderbird as an application. The default is to block remote content in messages. That way the sender is not informed that the spam went to a working email address. Alan

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