Hey Bob
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
All too easy.
Jez (really)
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 at 14:02, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Technology on the Dark Side. Lately, I've been getting calls on my cell
> displaying local area numbers. I usually answer them because some of the
> groups and organizations I use have multiple outgoing lines. But now more
> often than not, it's one of the usual scam call suspects. Foul, I call.
> Then the other day, I hit call back to satisfy myself by yelling st
> someone. And a nice elderly woman answered. She had not called me. So now
> the miserable bastards are using live numbers for their scams. Either that,
> or their random scam number generator hit a live one. The lady was _most_
> unhappy.
>
> --Bob
>
> > On Jun 18, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Well, where do you think cheap stuff is made? In Nashville? Ha!
> >
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> >
> >> On 18 Jun 2017, at 21:03, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> I need to use evilBay in order to obtain scarce parts for restoring
> old bicycles, and occasionally for camera items. Using Paypal is for the
> sake of convenience. but after this experience that convenience is greatly
> overshadowed by their incompetence. Most sellers will accept credit card
> payment, so I'll use that.
> >>
> >> Being careful with sellers is becoming an issue of conceren. That
> Amereican Paypal employee told me that US sellers are increasingly listing
> items that are drop shipments from China. The seller that created this
> incident was listed as being in Nashville, TN. When the Chinese tracking
> number appeared I looked into him further, and that's when he disappeared.
>
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