Spam on my answering machine at home!

[Perfection]

This is a brand new one to me.

I came home, checked my answering machine (which is just my home number, not business or anything) and what do I hear but some guy telling me he visited my web design site, and is "from a web solutions company in the area of content management who believes his services may be of interest to my company."

If there are any other web designers at this forum, I'm sure you get spam e-mails like this all the time like I do, from some company who wants to do all of your database work, or maybe all of your flash design etc., I must get 10 of this e-mails daily.

But this is the first time someone actually called me to spam me. The only way they could have even gotten my home number is by checking the domain name registration (which I just changed now).

I don't think we are too far away from people ringing our door bell with "door to door spam." lol.. gotta love the Internet.

[ihelpyou]

I don't think we are too far away from people ringing our door bell with "door to door spam." lol.. gotta love the Internet.

:green:
Soon companies will be hiring "spam reps" to make cold calls and go door to door and travel cross-country to spam us! :eek:

[Blue]

Most of you probably get "spam faxes" as I have on occasion. I believe how this works is these spammers buy an "auto-dialer" machine that has the ability to tell the difference between "voice tone" and "fax tone". When the auto-dialer rings a number, it listens for the "fax tone" and when it receives it, it sends the spam fax, but when it "hears" a voice tone, it just hangs up and moves on to the next number.

Well, two days ago, I get a call on my home number, pick up and say "hello"? A polite sounding gentleman responds by saying "Sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number", and so I reply "That's quite alright" and hang up.

Yesterday, the phone rings, and I pick up saying "hello"? I then hear the exact same gentleman, in the exact same voice, say the exact same thing that he said the day before. I listen on for a few moments, and after about ten seconds the line goes dead and jumps back to a dial tone. Now, usually, you can hear someone hang up their phone (you are hearing the phone hand-set bump against the base-unit before the "hang-up plungers" are depressed).

Then it dawned on me that this gentleman was no gentleman at all......he was a recording. So I deduced that the calls were from an auto-dialer looking for a fax tone and fitted with a voice recording.

Hmph....polite auto-dial spammers.

LOL :p

[Web Witch]

:scattered My husband answered our answering machine a couple of months ago and had me listen to the recording, simular thing and all he could say was "What is the world coming to one recording talking to another recording" sheesh....

On all my phone lines if someone doesn't answer right after I say hello I hang up because I know it's a spam call and they are detecting that the phone isn't ringing anymore; if I wait I sometimes get a real telamarketer or a recording.

I love the ones that get left on my recorder which tell me I have an important call waiting for me. It's gotten to the point if there is no one on the caller ID we fight about who's going to pick up the phone:eek:

There is a local radio personality who has a segment he puts on occasionaly about 'When telemarketers call' he tapes his conversation with the telemarketer spoofing them....the segments are great! One was from a dating service and he said he was married and him and his wife would like a partner...:bouncy:

WW

[Perfection]

That reminds me of that Seinfeld episode, something like this:

::phone rings::

Seinfeld: Hello
MCI: Hello, would you be interested in switching your long distance service to MCI?
Seinfeld: Actually I'm a little busy right now, can you give me your number and I'll call you back.
MCI: Uh, sir, we are not allowed to do that.
Seinfeld: Oh, so I guess you don't want people calling you at home?
MCI: Yeah
Seinfeld: Now you know how I feel!! ::hangs up::

[ihelpyou]

oh yea, I loved Seinfeld. That was a classic.