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You don’t get spam calls with pigeons. Or perhaps his butler answers the phone and doesn’t tell him it’s a spam call.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 6:00 pm You don’t get spam calls with pigeons. Or perhaps his butler answers the phone and doesn’t tell him it’s a spam call.

You don't get SPAM e-mails either. Don't give out your e-mail address to anyone and you get no spam!

Or if you're lucky like me and can have an unlimited set of email address give out a different one each time - but you need to remember to eventually check them!

Surely if you don’t give your email address to anyone there is no point in having one.

I've a friend who has one, but never uses or checks it. I've another who has one but refuses to give it out to stores such as B&Q when they ask.

I do agree, both of these friends may as well not have one but if you wish to visit certain sites (and forums) you need an address just to log in or view.

And with auto systems, one can still get e-mails even if you don't tell anyone. Computers can generate addresses and send them & if they don't bounce because the address doesn't exist, it goes to someone e-mail inbox.

Most of the phone calls are started with a random number generator.

There used to be a thing with gmail years ago (not sure if it's still valid) where you could add a + sign into your address. The address was still valid, but if you started getting spam you could identify who had sold your address or been hacked.

For example if I had joebloggs@gmail.com I could add joebloggs+amazon@gmail.com This gave you the ability to have original addresses for each site.

As I say, I'm not sure if this is still a thing or not and I have to admit I never tried it.

Walkingthedog wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 11:09 pm Most of the phone calls are started with a random number generator.

I wish the random number selection generator was linked to my premium bonds I would be a millionaire by now.

Had a scam phone call from Amazon two days ago saying about them changing my Prime membership to £39.99 a month, press 1 for more details - Ended the call immediately.
Had a call this evening saying a power cut in our postcode had been linked to our phone number, press 1 for more details - Ended the call immediately.
5 minutes later the power went off That'll teach me to assume the worst.

I get at least one of those Amazon calls every morning. Prerecorded american female voice. From a different number every time because I always block them.