What Annoyed You Today? (19 Viewers)

[special ed]

If only the Postal Service would deliver current mail, I would be happy.

 

[fubar57]

I lived in my house in Minneapolis for 26 years and we were still getting junk mail for people who had lived there in the 1950s.

I still get the occasional phone call, "Is G.S. H******** there?" CLICK!!!!

 

[Checkertail20]

Was driving the bus and came to a round about and saw this white van going through the round about with her looking at her phone and texting and not even looking at the road. Some people are to stupid to drive.

 

[MIflyer]

Got a phone call this afternoon with a caller ID that said JP Morgan Chase and a number 332-779-4041. The message left on the answering machine sounded like a black woman and, while I could pretty much hear all the words when played back, they made no sense. I have no association with that company and no idea what she was talking about, other than wishing me a good weekend. I did a search on the phone number and found a long list under the subject of "332 Scams." Pretty much all are financial in nature.

 

[cvairwerks]

Got a phone call this afternoon with a caller ID that said JP Morgan Chase and a number 332-779-4041. The message left on the answering machine sounded like a black woman and, while I could pretty much hear all the words when played back, they made no sense. I have no association with that company and no idea what she was talking about, other than wishing me a good weekend. I did a search on the phone number and found a long list under the subject of "332 Scams." Pretty much all are financial in nature.

When I get numbers I don't recognize, I let them go to voicemail and then look the number up. If I'm at the computer when the call comes in, I'll flop over and run the number right then. Some were legitimate and things I needed to deal with, but most were scams or scam-like calls.

 

[MIflyer]

When I get numbers I don't recognize, I let them go to voicemail and then look the number up.

Yes, that is what I do, unless I can tell from the beginning of the recording that it is one that I want. I look up the number and if it is a scam or otherwise an irritant, I block it using the 1000 phone number blocking feature of the Panasonic phone.

 

[fubar57]

Most popular(?) scam area codes

• 268: Antigua and Barbuda (often tied to callback fraud)

• 876: Jamaica (frequently used in lottery and work-from-home scams)

• 473: Grenada and Carriacou (commonly linked to one-ring scams)

• 649: Turks and Caicos Islands (associated with fraudulent calls)

• 284: British Virgin Islands (linked to phishing and investment fraud)

The last few weeks, two of these have popped up in my Junk Mail. Haven't seen them in decades. I'm gonna be rich....rich I tells ya. Bwa ha ha

 

[MIflyer]

$18.60 US dollars?!?!? WoW! You DID hit the jackpot!

One like that I got several years back said that if I did not agree to take the money then it would be assumed I was engaged in criminal activities and would be arrested.

 

[Viking1066]

Traffic jam. Only a 30 minute wait. Six car wreck and some people were arrested.

 

[Checkertail20]

The ending of the Western Michigan - Michigan game.

 

[CATCH 22]

Most popular(?) scam area codes

• 268: Antigua and Barbuda (often tied to callback fraud)
• 876: Jamaica (frequently used in lottery and work-from-home scams)
• 473: Grenada and Carriacou (commonly linked to one-ring scams)
• 649: Turks and Caicos Islands (associated with fraudulent calls)
• 284: British Virgin Islands (linked to phishing and investment fraud)

The last few weeks, two of these have popped up in my Junk Mail. Haven't seen them in decades. I'm gonna be rich....rich I tells ya. Bwa ha ha

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You can get the Bentley and sell it and get rich, no? (as they will say on the phone).

 

[Greg Boeser]

You can get the Bentley and sell it and get rich, no? (as they will say on the phone).

Ah. Good sir, there are tariffs and international shipping charges that need to be paid up front before we can deliver the Bentley. We can accept VISA gift cards sent to our post office box.

 

[fubar57]

Hah!!! The other letter was offering 15.5 billion dollars because of a Bank of America accounting error. How can I lose?

 

[Viking1066]

Hah!!! The other letter was offering 15.5 billion dollars because of a Bank of America accounting error. How can I lose?

Sounds like a retirement to Tahiti!

 

[Viking1066]

Recieved my new atlas and classroom workbooks for social studies. The EA says you need to look at this. I can see my 8th grade dual language are really going to hate these and think everything inside is some kind of lie.

 

[MiTasol]

I have two email addresses, my current one and an old gmail one that I avoid like the plague but keep active for "just in case".

Today I was sent a very confidential document by the person who is about to become my ex lawyer using @#$%^ gmail instead of the email he has been using for the last couple of years.

The reason?

So much for confidential.

 

[MiTasol]

Another reason to avoid Google. They are forcing AI on you without your permission or knowledge. Probably so they can harvest the content of your web traffic or even the content of your hard drives.

For the full story go to Chrome silently installs a 4 GB local LLM on your computer