Stop Illegal & Unwanted Calls
Updated and clarified 7-15-2016
I don't often plug for specific products, but if you are bothered with illegal telephone calls (who isn't?), I think I have a solution for some of you; * at least for the present, AND .... IT'S FREE!!! I heard about this a few months ago, and I was skeptical, but I have to tell you, the number of calls has dropped DRAMATICALLY! Now, the bad guys will always work to find ways around attempts to block them, and since I'm no tech guru, I have no idea how long this will continue to work, but it's been great so far, and you can provide them with numbers to block, after they check them out, so it's an ongoing process keeping telemarketers and scammers from accessing you. Here is the link, and everything can be done online, plus, you've got to love the name, "NOMOROBO" (NO MO ROBO): http://www.nomorobo.com/
* Some telephone service providers do not yet accept this service, or they may use another similar service (I believe there are such, but I'm not certain). You will be able to find out online if "Nomorobo" works with your specific service provider. Remember, the U.S. national "Do Not Call List" is NOT a call blocking service, and just because you signed up for the list does not mean you won't get calls, because, for one thing, there are exceptions to the "list." The law seriously needs to be updated, as when it was passed, George W. Bush was in his FIRST TERM as president. Just think how technology has changed since then! For more info, here is the link to another article I did about illegal calls, and it contains some links to help you about charity giving and about illegal calls.
http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2015/02/caller-id-and-spoofing.html
Word History:
I don't often plug for specific products, but if you are bothered with illegal telephone calls (who isn't?), I think I have a solution for some of you; * at least for the present, AND .... IT'S FREE!!! I heard about this a few months ago, and I was skeptical, but I have to tell you, the number of calls has dropped DRAMATICALLY! Now, the bad guys will always work to find ways around attempts to block them, and since I'm no tech guru, I have no idea how long this will continue to work, but it's been great so far, and you can provide them with numbers to block, after they check them out, so it's an ongoing process keeping telemarketers and scammers from accessing you. Here is the link, and everything can be done online, plus, you've got to love the name, "NOMOROBO" (NO MO ROBO): http://www.nomorobo.com/
* Some telephone service providers do not yet accept this service, or they may use another similar service (I believe there are such, but I'm not certain). You will be able to find out online if "Nomorobo" works with your specific service provider. Remember, the U.S. national "Do Not Call List" is NOT a call blocking service, and just because you signed up for the list does not mean you won't get calls, because, for one thing, there are exceptions to the "list." The law seriously needs to be updated, as when it was passed, George W. Bush was in his FIRST TERM as president. Just think how technology has changed since then! For more info, here is the link to another article I did about illegal calls, and it contains some links to help you about charity giving and about illegal calls.
http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2015/02/caller-id-and-spoofing.html
Word History:
Sick-The ultimate origins of this word are uncertain, although a pretty good case can be made tying it to some Indo European form like "seug/seuk," with a notion of "troubled in mind, depressed." Old Germanic had "seukaz," seemingly with the notion, "become weak, become feeble, feel unwell, be troubled in body or mind." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "seoc," with those same meanings. The word later became "sik," before the modern version. The other Germanic languages have: German "siech" (meaning, "extremely ill, wasting away"), Dutch "ziek" (sick), Danish "syg" (sick), Norwegian "syk" (sick), Swedish "sjuk" (sick). Frisian and Low German once had forms, but no longer.
Labels: English, etymology, Germanic languages, illegal telephone calls, telemarketers
posted by Randy at 8:37 AM
2 Comments:
Neither of our carriers support nomorodo.
The above comment is likely correct, as not all carriers accept Nomorobo. When you go to the website provided in the link, you will find out if you can use Nomorobo. If not, call or email your carrier and demand action against all of these illegal calls, including perhaps, their acceptance of Nomorobo. For the first time in weeks, I had a call today on my landline, "FREE cruise offer," which I'm sure most of you have gotten from one of the "scammer scum," my new name for them, and I immediately went to the Nomorobo site and reported the call. I've gone from 10 to 25 calls a week down to almost to this, one call in weeks.
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