On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 9:37 AM George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When I retired and moved to a different town I had to get a new landline > number. It gets a constant stream of debt collector calls, so clearly the > previous person assigned the number was a deadbeat.. Nah, the previous person was not necessarily a deadbeat. That's just the nature of the scam. Everybody gets the calls. When I was tracking them in detail, they were dominated by car warranties and fake debts. With the occasional Microsoft virus call. We usually get 6 to 9 of them a day. In fact, I wrote a program to monitor the modem with CallerId, and automatically file UCC, FCC and FTC complaints in response to an unsolicited call. It is like Nomorobo on steroids. > Some financial organizations > insist that you use a landline with an address they can verify. My mail goes to a > PO Box -- possibly they are more careful when you don't have a street address > for mail. I used to use PO Boxes, but I found something better - General Delivery. I started using General Delivery when I realized that communicating with me was a privilege, not a right. Nothing requires us to share accurate information with others, accept their junk mailings, accept their junk phone calls, or accept their junk email. General Delivery sends mail to the Post Office. If you don't claim the mail within 30 days, it gets sent back. If you do claim the mail, then you need picture identification. It's a very strong form of authentication for mail, and avoids people intercepting your mail. If you start using General Delivery, then consider using a Post Office in the next city over so folks don't even get an accurate ZIP code for you. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
