I have 'Protect and Serve" mass plates. it's a matter of public record.
I get the scammers that want me to donate to the xyz police association.
"leave cash in an envelope in you mailbox and we'll pick it up"

riiiight

 

I get the travel company calls at least twice a day. It is always a gal (usually with a Philippine accent) telling me my my expired travel date with insurance has expired but they are ready to send me someplace else for $800. They invariably ask if I see myself traveling in the future. When I say I am (was) an airline pilot they either hang up or go silent.

 

"County Morgu Assistant Coroner speaking please hold'

 

Today I got a message on my phone to go to a website for lab test results. Funny, as I never got calls from any labs before. Usually, they mail the results.

Anyhow, when I went to the site... Norton posted a "do not proceed" warning. As the site was reported to be a fraud. Gathering password and other personal data --- pretending to register you to a new service of your health insurance.

Just a warning.

 

I get very few calls on my home or land line. I typically don't have my ringer on my cell anyway, so I notice hours afterI got a call. Works great for spam, not so much for Cindy. Once in a while, if I notice a call and its a local number, I do answer - especially this time of year when the charity event is in full swing.

Email is different. bombarded on all my accounts. GMail and Y! do a decent job of filtering. The latest thing is for spammers to use real company addresses, but a slightly different alphabet for some characters. Now, instead of immediately noticing that the email from Amazon about your order is from "nasdfwaehh234009232@fakeemail.com" it appears as "orders@ɑmɑzon.com" with a "ɑ" for the a. It's a different character in the computer world and therefore is a different email address, while it looks like amazon.com when we read it. However, its much less noticeable than "nasdfwaehh234009232@fakeemail.com". So be aware.

One thing I do if its suspicious is to look not at the "Name" of the email address, but to look at the address. That of course is only if I even think the email is real by some chance.

I never click a link to the bank or shopping - I go to the site directly - using the notification as that - notification only.

 

Good catch on the a vs ɑ.
Cannot find it on my keyboard however. Tried all the options too. Apple.

 

For Windows you gotta go to the Character Map. Then scroll to the font and symbol. Copy and paste.

 

Wife found it: hold down on a key and all the options appear above it. You can select which one you want going forward then. Includes all the accents you can do. Saw some new ones!

 

Or they use "Arnazon.com". The r n looks like an m without the space.

 

It's been a Robocall Hell for the last week or two. Sometimes, more than 25 calls a day on the landline.

I have 92 phone numbers which I've filtered out in my cell, since 2/16/23. That's less than two months. Absolutely one of the most annoying things ever.