Posted on 05/09/2024 6:05:55 PM PDT by fightin kentuckian
I've received two cell phone calls in the past few days and both were labelled "Likely Scam" in red letters.
The number was not shown so I didn't consider answering it. On the second such call curiosity got to me and I decided to answer. It was the RNC soliciting donations.
I hung up and then went to the previous "scam" call and that was from the National Republican Congressional Committee. the numbers were 771-202-xxxx and 771-213-xxxx.
They've been doing something similar with email from Republican entities.
The Trump Campaign, RNC, NRCC, and the FEC need to be alerted, although I think the FEC is probably responsible.
Does anyone know how to get traction on this?
Why don’t they show their affiliation on the phone screen? My name pops up on their phone when I call someone.
I would rather know who to ignore, rather than having it possibly wrongly chosen, for me.
This also happens on home router “banned IP lists” from the public.
I do get legitimate calls from the GOP Republican Senate Campaign Committee.
I usually totally ignore them.
Some months back I decided to answer them for a change.
A man started talking some shpeel and I kept telling him to stop, stop, stop until he did.
Then I told him point blank.’
1. Take my number off your list.
2. I have not and do not contribute to your outfit.’
3. I do not trust it, at all, period.
4. If there is a GOP Senate candidate I like, I give to their individual campaign, never to your outfit.
6. Your outfit too often picks candidates that are not the choice of the grass roots of the GOP in their state.
7. That is why years ago there was a separate GOP Conservative Senate Campaign Committee - yours is not and was not trustworthy.
8. Again - TAKE ME OFF YOUR LIST.
And I hung up at that point.
The point is that you are given a choice but now someone is not allowing Republicans to campaign by telling the caller that it’s a scam therefore don’t answer it.
Someone is purposefully misrepresenting Republican campaign calls as a “scam” call. That’s election interference.
Leftists get on the call lists sold from election committee to election committee.
Then when they get robo-called, they hit the “scam likely” button.
A few thousand of there and Verizon, T-Mobile and others just dump the calls.
The GOPe just took $1.2 trillion from us taxpayers in the form of adding to the national debt, took our rights away with a FISA extension, and sent $60 billion to the oligarchies in Ukraine in a span of a couple months.
It’s a scam no matter how you look at it.
Block them.
It means someone is “spoofing” the legitimate phone nuber, like using VOIP (voice-over-internet-protocol) calling via the Internet - in which the caller can make the number it looks like they are calling from mimic any number they want it to look like. The method uses a giant technical hole in the VOIP protocol in which the spoofing is not checked as the number leaves the Internet and gets into the “telephone” transmission/data lines, and then “telephone” systems just assumes it is the real number being called from.
If I was your “benevolent dictator” I would shut down all VOIP transmissions in the U.S. until the Internet gurus can get rid of the “true number” identification problem.
And guess who is responsible?! The dnc!
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