Re: OT-Junk Mail & Spam Robo Calls

[Terry Schieler-2]

I use commercial spam solutions for relief from internet email spammers. Lots of them out there. That's all well and good.  The REAL problem for me are robo calls to my home phones and cell phone.  I listed both phones on the State of Missouri and the Federal *No Call Lists*  years ago.  That worked ok for a while, then totally spiraled out of control.  Spammers don't pay any attention to the *List* and violations are not enforced.

I found a fix in an app called *NOMOROBO*  No More Robo (calls).  After you sign up for the service, their server spots the fingerprints of incoming spam telephone robo calls on your phone line.  My phone rings a partial ring (.5 sec?) then the software at the server end sucks the call off my line and adds it to their national database blacklist.  The Caller Id is still displayed on my TV screen, but before I can get my butt out of my chair, the ring stops, telling me not to bother with the call, it's spam.  

I can't remember how many years I've used NoMoRobo but I was an early adopter and it has been working beautifully for probably 10 years now.  The idea was hatched by a couple of guys during a contest to find a solution to annoying Robo Calls (necessary because your local telco doesn't want to help inhibit the use of their paid services).  You don't need to load your *white list* phone numbers.  There is a free version of NoMoRobo and a paid version.  So far, I have seen no need for the paid version.  In all this time I only had two callers get wrongly *captured* by the spam software and both were vendors I use who had recently changed their phone number.  Calls from my doctor's appointment office, Trash Hauler, etc come right through.  

While not affiliated with the firm that offers this (I wish I were) I recommend looking it over and deciding for yourself if it suits your needs:

www.nomorobo.com

73, Terry WØFM

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken G Kopp [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 1:58 PM
To: w7aqk
Cc: Elecraft
Subject: [Elecraft] OT-Junk Mail

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



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[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

My solution is very simple.    I ignore all calls unless they appear on
my caller ID from my contact list.  Likewise on e-mail, my spam filter
gets 99.9% of all of them and they end being sent to the junk folder. 
That folder gets emptied every 12 hrs.  The one or two that get through,
also get manually added to the junk filter.    Thank you Thunderbird
which is my e-mail application. Once the filter is set, they are then
history forever.

73

Bob, K4TAX


On 8/14/2018 10:35 AM, Terry Schieler wrote:

> I use commercial spam solutions for relief from internet email spammers. Lots of them out there. That's all well and good.  The REAL problem for me are robo calls to my home phones and cell phone.  I listed both phones on the State of Missouri and the Federal *No Call Lists*  years ago.  That worked ok for a while, then totally spiraled out of control.  Spammers don't pay any attention to the *List* and violations are not enforced.
>
> I found a fix in an app called *NOMOROBO*  No More Robo (calls).  After you sign up for the service, their server spots the fingerprints of incoming spam telephone robo calls on your phone line.  My phone rings a partial ring (.5 sec?) then the software at the server end sucks the call off my line and adds it to their national database blacklist.  The Caller Id is still displayed on my TV screen, but before I can get my butt out of my chair, the ring stops, telling me not to bother with the call, it's spam.
>
> I can't remember how many years I've used NoMoRobo but I was an early adopter and it has been working beautifully for probably 10 years now.  The idea was hatched by a couple of guys during a contest to find a solution to annoying Robo Calls (necessary because your local telco doesn't want to help inhibit the use of their paid services).  You don't need to load your *white list* phone numbers.  There is a free version of NoMoRobo and a paid version.  So far, I have seen no need for the paid version.  In all this time I only had two callers get wrongly *captured* by the spam software and both were vendors I use who had recently changed their phone number.  Calls from my doctor's appointment office, Trash Hauler, etc come right through.
>
> While not affiliated with the firm that offers this (I wish I were) I recommend looking it over and deciding for yourself if it suits your needs:
>
> www.nomorobo.com
>
> 73, Terry WØFM
>
> Pardon the bandwidth
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken G Kopp [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 1:58 PM
> To: w7aqk
> Cc: Elecraft
> Subject: [Elecraft] OT-Junk Mail
>
> 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
>
>
>
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[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

We're drifting a little too OT. Let's close this thread in the interest of
reducing email overload for our readers.

73,
Eric
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[Ken G Kopp]

Thanks for your patience, Eric.  (:-))

73 all

K0PP

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018, 10:05 Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft <
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> We're drifting a little too OT. Let's close this thread in the interest of
> reducing email overload for our readers.
>
> 73,
> Eric
> Moderator etc.
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