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Greenpeace Calling?

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oldflame

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Or is it? For the past ~six months we've been getting one or two DAILY calls our phone ID's from Greenpeace. We don't answer solicitation or unknown numbers. Sometimes the various phone numbers they use will trigger our answering machine but no messages are left. If it really is Greenpeace we would not contribute due to the obnoxious nature of frequent calls. If it's a third-party doing this fundraising, GP needs better oversight.

The calls might not be legit. Does this happen to you too: frequent calls from different "non-profits"? Your thoughts?
 
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No, I rarely get any type of "spam" calls. I do occasionally get a call about mortgages, they leave a prerecorded VM. And as I type that I can't remember the last time I received one of those.

All that said, I do put in the effort to check all the "no" boxes when doing stuffs on the interwebs.
 
I've never received a call from Greenpeace. Since friends and family members typically text, I get very few incoming calls these days. When I do, it's usually spam (and ID'd as such). I get voicemails saying: "Hello? Hello?" every few days.

Lately I've been getting texts, not calls, from mortgage folks who want to buy my house.
 
init4fun is right: I should have posted scammer and the one hooked on my phone # has been extremely persistent. Time to see if no-call complaints are being accepted again, because a few months ago funding cuts apparently had them on hold.
 
Making caller ID show a fake number is very easy and lends a lot to a scammer's credibility. Recently I have read of banking customers losing money after believing that it was "bank security" calling based on having the victim check the back of the credit card and seeing that the telephone number for the bank matched the caller ID. In the last few weeks I have had email from two Australian network providers, including Telstra, saying that they are now required to show:

We are required by the Australian Government to make changes to SMS and MMS sender names or how Sender IDs will be displayed from 1 July.
What's a Sender ID?
A Sender ID is the from name of a message sender, often a business name, that's displayed at the top of text messages to show you who the message is from. For example, any messages you receive from Telstra will display the Sender ID 'Telstra' or TelstraPlus' depending on what the message is about.

and it goes on to warn that if "Unverified" appears, don't trust them. Which is fine until everyone starts trusting sender ID again and they find a way to fake it again.
 
62caddy said:
Won't work. They'll just use another number.
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Exactly.

We have blocked call numbers via our provider and we have Nomorobo enabled - which does help on the spam/scam callers. But over the last week we've gotten two calls at f'in 12:30am which wakes us up!

I checked the call log thinking I'll just block the number - but each call (at the exact same time) was from a different number.

Grrr....:mad:
 
GChief said:
That is why our phones go on silent at 9 every night and it swt up so only our favorites list (family) ring thru.

That said we rarely get a spam call.
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Yes, this is the prime function of the "Do Not Disturb" feature (which I jokingly call "Do Not Perturb" :p )

Only people whose numbers I have stored in my contact list actually get through, all unknown numbers are rejected. I have literally everyone I know on my contact list that I'd want to hear from, friends, neighbors, doctors, hell even the OPM is in my directory. It sure filters out a lost of spam/garbage :thumbsup:
 
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