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Thread ID: 115048	2010-12-30 04:39:00	Another Virus Call...............What is it about me????	Billy T (70)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1165685	2010-12-31 05:58:00	Its about time the world's ISP's got together and closed all these crooks down. . Why is it an ISP problem? All the spammers and scammers would disappear if they weren't successful enough times. Let's just shoot all the stupid people then.	pctek (84)
1165686	2010-12-31 06:03:00	Why is it an ISP problem? All the spammers and scammers would disappear if they weren't successful enough times. Let's just shoot all the stupid people then. Wouldn't leave many....	johcar (6283)
1165687	2010-12-31 06:04:00	Wouldn't leave many.... It would help with unemployment stats	Greven (91)
1165688	2010-12-31 06:05:00	Actually SJ, a phone can only reproduce milliwatts of audio, consequently the SPL in db goes nowhere near the threshold for hearing damage . They are simply not engineered for high level reproduction . At an spl of 120dbA it can take over an hour for hearing damage to occur, so a brief air-horn blast transmitted by phone line (headphones or not) would do no harm at all . In fact, I doubt that the average earpiece or headphone could reproduce an spl sufficient to do damage in the brief moment of time between blowing the horn and the caller saying "Holy Sh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " and dropping the line . However, I would not be surprised to find that the US has legislated some appropriate controls in order to further enhance Attorneys' incomes . Pity they can't legislate something to knock back the inane laugh tracks on anything remotely humorous out of the US . To my great delight I recently found an option to kill the laugh track on a US DVD, and that was a revelation!! I actually enjoyed watching the program material . Incidentally, I have professional B&K sound measuring instruments and this is another service I offer to my clients, so I am well familiar with time-weighted hearing damage thresholds . Cheers Billy 8-{) I believe you - but therein lies a paradox::: If you are telling the truth - and I believe you ARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . then SOMEBODY in a higher office in Washington DC is <gasp!> LYING <double gasp!> to innocent people like moi! I am not happy . My icons fall every time I visit here . There goes another icon now .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1165689	2010-12-31 06:10:00	Those phone callers obviously rely on getting one or two vulnerable people a day to believe them . Makes one pause and consider the financial overhead on something like this . Lessee ------ 200 phone operators 20 calls per hour each MAYBE a . 0001% success rate = :annoyed: This must be a family that's making all these calls since you don't have to pay your kids and their siblings to work at home - just withhold food and they'll call for all hours for the prospect of getting fed next week .	SurferJoe46 (51)
1165690	2010-12-31 07:05:00	A suggestion was made to me how to deal with these type of people. You ask them to speak up as though you cannot hear a word they are saying. When they do speak up act like you have misheard what they said and keep asking them to speak up even more. If they yell hard and long enough they will either get brassed off and hang up or lose their voice and thus stop harassing innoccent folk like us.	Bobh (5192)
1165691	2010-12-31 07:39:00	Lucky I am not! However, nice as the idea might be, a telephone cannot transfer or duplicate the volume of an air horn, so your ears may ring, but not theirs. Next time I think I'll answer every question with Yes, or try another path I have in mind. Nothing is surer than I'll get the chance, and sooner rather than later! Cheers Billy 8-{) Well forewarned is forearmed!	Cicero (40)
1165692	2010-12-31 10:10:00	G'dday personthingy! Asking the caller to call you back on an 0900 number (because "it is closer to the computer") is pretty effective. Especially if the 0900 number is going to make a $40 donation to some fine non-religious charity. It is quite possible that the caller has no idea 0900 is a pay-to-call prefix in our country; so your selected charity gets a few $$, the sharks get bitten, the call centre jerk gets reamed out or even sacked, and if the wind is favourable you could get struck off their call list - maybe put on the spammer's blacklist.	R2x1 (4628)
1165693	2010-12-31 10:17:00	G'day R2x1 maybe put on the spammer's blacklist.I can only dream, despite finding as many ways to make unsolicited emails more a hassle for the sender than for me, they just a keep a sending! you still connect to the web by a stick?	personthingy (1670)
1165694	2010-12-31 11:59:00	you can't call 0800 & 0900 numbers internationally can you?	Greven (91)
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