OT-Junk Mail

[Ken G Kopp]

Hi Dave, + rest of list

I've not seen your "Elycraft", but we … both ElecraftCovers (Rose, N7HKW)
and me  …  get lots of e-mail
from people wanting to "fix" elecraft.com and bring us more business.  I
expect Elecraft also gets these same
offers.

Both of us, for several reasons, need to maintain an old-fashioned wired
phone line.  We have had the
same number for about fifty years and it's published and used from all over
the world.

Here's what seems to (partially) work for us;  we have an answering machine
in a speaker-phone that's
audible throughout the house. In addition, our satellite TV provider is
connected to the TV set … which is
usually on (;-) … and the TV screen displays caller ID info.  Perhaps ten
percent of the calls are legit.

Both of us have Verizon cell phones and get -many- calls from spoofed
numbers … usually in our 406
area and often using a "local" number.  Rose gets many calls related to her
Elecraft case and cover
business that she -must- answer.  She's had three today … with two being
spoofed.

We both use G-Mail as our e-mail provider and to G-mail's credit, we get
very little SPAM.  We also use
Norton ... wouldn't be without it. Our internet provider (Century Link) is
via cable.

FWIW

73!

K0PP


On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 8:33 AM, w7aqk <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In this day and age it is almost impossible to keep your lines of
> communication "pure"!  By that, I mean absent of any junk mail, anonymous
> callers, etc.  For eons my mail box has been a repository for all sorts of
> unsolicited junk.  Now my email addresses are being overrun as well, and
> even my phone keeps ringing with calls for all sorts of unwelcome sources.
> It's just about out of control!!!!
>
> Well, I couldn't help saying some thing here because now I am getting
> emails from an outfit that identifies itself as "Elycraft"!!!  Fortunately,
> my spam filter seems to catch most of it, and separate it, but some of it
> sneaks directly into my regular mail.  Is anyone else getting some of this
> from that source?
>
> The hardest to ignore are the phone calls.  And, there are a bunch of
> them!!!  They are also getting clever by usurping local numbers and area
> codes to make it look like they are not what they really are--trash
> vendors! Getting rid of them is also impossible.  If you block one, they
> just switch to a different number!!
>
> I think this is a crisis!  Anyone else agree?
>
> Dave W7AQK
>
>

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