-=> August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 AA> I had a business number with the last 4 digit 1704, but the local
 AA> CanadianTire's number ended with 1074.  So.. I'd get calls asking for a
 AA> variety of things.  I had plenty of opportunity to play games with that
 AA> and misleed people, but that would be cruel.   

 When I was a telecom manager, I bought a new bank of DID numbers for my
 company. I assigned the lead number of the bank of numbers to the phone
 in my switch room, and as soon as I saved the change, it rang.

 I picked it up, and it was a wrong number for a museum. Thinking about
 it, It seemed likely that a museum patron would have an old number
 written down somewhere instead of looking it up.   :)

 AA> I dunno.. it's a waste of time. I remember getting the odd call
 AA> claiming to be FROM Google. I had my doubts about the legitimacy of
 AA> that.

 I'm getting SPAM calls from "Google Voice Verification". They keep
 asking for the "business owner". Not sure what they want to charge for,
 but when I ask them to take me off of their list, they double down with
 what great value they offer - or once, told me it wasn't his job to
 take me off of their list and I "need a secretary".

 I've got around 60 calls logged, am considering taking them to court.




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