Please don't fwd me that junk...
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Its ok I got this, I just unsubscribe, block or filter.
But before I did this I would wonder why on earth do people spam, dont they realise how many emails people need to sort through every day. Unless they have a secretary, or several, its going to be impossible to keep up.
I wonder if God feels the same way about prayers. Please dont fwd me those junk prayers I dont want to hear them. GEnuine prayers from the heart only!
Im sure there are people out there trying to twist Gods arm a bit. I'll stop sinning only if you give me x. Or they tell Him something everyone else has already prayed and it will be long and repetitive...I kind of think God already knows about that but doesnt let on.
But before I did this I would wonder why on earth do people spam, dont they realise how many emails people need to sort through every day. Unless they have a secretary, or several, its going to be impossible to keep up.
I wonder if God feels the same way about prayers. Please dont fwd me those junk prayers I dont want to hear them. GEnuine prayers from the heart only!
Im sure there are people out there trying to twist Gods arm a bit. I'll stop sinning only if you give me x. Or they tell Him something everyone else has already prayed and it will be long and repetitive...I kind of think God already knows about that but doesnt let on.
I have an email that I dedicate just to SPAM.
My friends know my phone number and where I live. If they want to talk they can call or call and stop by. They don't have my personal nor my SPAM email address because it's just too impersonal in my opinion.
SPAMMERS never see the light of day . Everything in that account INBOX and JUNK folder is deleted after 30 days. I don't even have to see it. I just log on once every thirty days and let the email site program purge those emails.
What if junk mail reincarnates?
After it's sent to the trash file it resurfaces as unsolicited phone sales calls.
This is fun.
Phone solicitor. "Hello is this Mrs.......? "
The actual Mrs......"No, you've reached the county coroners corpse transport dispatch station. What is the address of the deceased needing transport please?"
Phone solicitor. Long pause. "I'm sorry? Who did I dial"
Mrs..... repeats myself.
Is this. (phone number).
Mrs. .... "Oh, that was a residential number at one time. But now we've inherited their number from the phone company after they were sent to prison. "
Phone solicitor: "Oh, my! What did they do?"
Mrs..."Oh, the details are a bit gruesome but lets just say it had something to do with unsolicited phone callers ignoring her polite request to stop calling!"
It's been ten years and I haven't....I mean, Mrs.... , hasn't had an unsolicited phone call since. Especially not from that rip off bunch that wanted to extend her car warranty.
My friends know my phone number and where I live. If they want to talk they can call or call and stop by. They don't have my personal nor my SPAM email address because it's just too impersonal in my opinion.
SPAMMERS never see the light of day . Everything in that account INBOX and JUNK folder is deleted after 30 days. I don't even have to see it. I just log on once every thirty days and let the email site program purge those emails.
What if junk mail reincarnates?
After it's sent to the trash file it resurfaces as unsolicited phone sales calls. This is fun.
Phone solicitor. "Hello is this Mrs.......? "
The actual Mrs......"No, you've reached the county coroners corpse transport dispatch station. What is the address of the deceased needing transport please?"
Phone solicitor. Long pause. "I'm sorry? Who did I dial"
Mrs..... repeats myself.
Is this. (phone number).
Mrs. .... "Oh, that was a residential number at one time. But now we've inherited their number from the phone company after they were sent to prison. "
Phone solicitor: "Oh, my! What did they do?"
Mrs..."Oh, the details are a bit gruesome but lets just say it had something to do with unsolicited phone callers ignoring her polite request to stop calling!"
It's been ten years and I haven't....I mean, Mrs.... , hasn't had an unsolicited phone call since. Especially not from that rip off bunch that wanted to extend her car warranty.
I have an email that I dedicate just to SPAM.
My friends know my phone number and where I live. If they want to talk they can call or call and stop by. They don't have my personal nor my SPAM email address because it's just too impersonal in my opinion.
SPAMMERS never see the light of day . Everything in that account INBOX and JUNK folder is deleted after 30 days. I don't even have to see it. I just log on once every thirty days and let the email site program purge those emails.
What if junk mail reincarnates? After it's sent to the trash file it resurfaces as unsolicited phone sales calls.
This is fun.
Phone solicitor. "Hello is this Mrs.......? "
The actual Mrs......"No, you've reached the county coroners corpse transport dispatch station. What is the address of the deceased needing transport please?"
Phone solicitor. Long pause. "I'm sorry? Who did I dial"
Mrs..... repeats myself.
Is this. (phone number).
Mrs. .... "Oh, that was a residential number at one time. But now we've inherited their number from the phone company after they were sent to prison. "
Phone solicitor: "Oh, my! What did they do?"
Mrs..."Oh, the details are a bit gruesome but lets just say it had something to do with unsolicited phone callers ignoring her polite request to stop calling!"
It's been ten years and I haven't....I mean, Mrs.... , hasn't had an unsolicited phone call since. Especially not from that rip off bunch that wanted to extend her car warranty.
My friends know my phone number and where I live. If they want to talk they can call or call and stop by. They don't have my personal nor my SPAM email address because it's just too impersonal in my opinion.
SPAMMERS never see the light of day . Everything in that account INBOX and JUNK folder is deleted after 30 days. I don't even have to see it. I just log on once every thirty days and let the email site program purge those emails.
What if junk mail reincarnates?
After it's sent to the trash file it resurfaces as unsolicited phone sales calls.This is fun.
Phone solicitor. "Hello is this Mrs.......? "
The actual Mrs......"No, you've reached the county coroners corpse transport dispatch station. What is the address of the deceased needing transport please?"
Phone solicitor. Long pause. "I'm sorry? Who did I dial"
Mrs..... repeats myself.
Is this. (phone number).
Mrs. .... "Oh, that was a residential number at one time. But now we've inherited their number from the phone company after they were sent to prison. "
Phone solicitor: "Oh, my! What did they do?"
Mrs..."Oh, the details are a bit gruesome but lets just say it had something to do with unsolicited phone callers ignoring her polite request to stop calling!"
It's been ten years and I haven't....I mean, Mrs.... , hasn't had an unsolicited phone call since. Especially not from that rip off bunch that wanted to extend her car warranty.
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I thought about it after watching this weird al vid - weird al is a comedic musical parody genius btw.
I only have the odd contact that fwds me junk mostly former work colleagues who dont know how to use email effectively. One job I had the boss would fwd everyone alternative natural health remedies cos she was into new age things, not because anyone had asked for them or were talking about it. . She hired everyone according to their star signs. No lie.
The worst spam I ever got was from the social media site lInkedin. I closed my account with them cos they were always notifying me of 'work anniversaries' which nobody ever celebrated.
I only have the odd contact that fwds me junk mostly former work colleagues who dont know how to use email effectively. One job I had the boss would fwd everyone alternative natural health remedies cos she was into new age things, not because anyone had asked for them or were talking about it. . She hired everyone according to their star signs. No lie.
The worst spam I ever got was from the social media site lInkedin. I closed my account with them cos they were always notifying me of 'work anniversaries' which nobody ever celebrated.
Wow. I never knew some people have so much trouble just ignoring stuff. I ignore a lot of stuff every day but I never thought it was any special skill that not everybody could do.
Just don't ever, ever, EVER get a facebook account. All the crap you have to (and apparently can not) ignore will escalate by the cube of the number of friends you have on facebook.
Just don't ever, ever, EVER get a facebook account. All the crap you have to (and apparently can not) ignore will escalate by the cube of the number of friends you have on facebook.
I have tried that and it doesn't work. They called sometimes as little as half an hour later. Telling them to put me on the don't call list, because I'm registered on the national DNC list, doesn't work. Telling them to please stop calling that I'll never accept their offer also doesn't work. They're different people following where the call center computer leads them when it auto-dials numbers.
What did seem to work, at least to this point, is to let them know the number they dialed was a business. A morgue style business. No, no body here is buying anything. Thank you for not calling.
This is an oldie but goodie on dealing with unwanted sales calls.
What did seem to work, at least to this point, is to let them know the number they dialed was a business. A morgue style business. No, no body here is buying anything. Thank you for not calling.
This is an oldie but goodie on dealing with unwanted sales calls.
Oh yes, I did read your advice and I have done that. They tell me they're on a system that doesn't allow them to receive calls. That same company will call back though as I mentioned. Sometimes in as little as half an hour ,but they always call back.
I don't get these calls on my cell though. I use to. Foreign language sales calls even. How does that happen when I don't ever dial on my cell to international numbers.
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I don't get these calls on my cell though. I use to. Foreign language sales calls even. How does that happen when I don't ever dial on my cell to international numbers.
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They'll just call back most likely. Sometimes my caller ID shows, SPAM CALL? as a message prior to the number calling. Those I definitely let ring without answering.
I have this posted at the mouth of my drive and on both front and back doors.
We haven't had a problem with JW's in a few years now.Maybe that's why.
I have this posted at the mouth of my drive and on both front and back doors.
We haven't had a problem with JW's in a few years now.Maybe that's why.
Lol not seem that sign...I havent seen JWS around lately they must know we dont talk to them, but if any do try I just say yep Im a born again christian and already go to church. Ive seen them give up the door to door thing and set up outside libraries and shopping malls, like Hare Krishnas. I just walk on past even if they say hey I really like your (whatever i am wearing) and I just say no I dont want to go to your yoga class.
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Greenpeace was one of the worst for trying to get money out of people. They would want you to sign up right there and there on the spot, not just a donation but a direct debit which meant they could drain money from you for years.
But some slimy 'christian' evangelists try as well, but just say I cant pay for you, but I can pray for you. Then shoot off a prayer and leave it with God to deal with.
But some slimy 'christian' evangelists try as well, but just say I cant pay for you, but I can pray for you. Then shoot off a prayer and leave it with God to deal with.
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Many people are giving up landlines completely.
With smartphones it usually recongises the number so you know whether to pick up or not. Let it ring. If they dont leave a message, then sorry.
The last month I had heaps of calls from different unknown numbers, on my smartphone but none left a message so I didnt call them back. They seemd to be from other mobiles but I dont give my number out to many people, although one said it was from new York city, and I only know one person in nyc. If they were ringing to say I won lotto or something, who knows I may have missed out on a prize. But its unlikely cos wouldnt they have left a message anyway?!
They seemed to have stopped now thank God.
With smartphones it usually recongises the number so you know whether to pick up or not. Let it ring. If they dont leave a message, then sorry.
The last month I had heaps of calls from different unknown numbers, on my smartphone but none left a message so I didnt call them back. They seemd to be from other mobiles but I dont give my number out to many people, although one said it was from new York city, and I only know one person in nyc. If they were ringing to say I won lotto or something, who knows I may have missed out on a prize. But its unlikely cos wouldnt they have left a message anyway?!
They seemed to have stopped now thank God.
They have gone on facebook. And stopped employing professional beggars I mean fundraisers.
I once said to them why dont you put up a display in the public library if you want to raise awareness instead of bothering people in their private homes? I would be happy to help you with library books for this display but no, they just wanted $$$
I once said to them why dont you put up a display in the public library if you want to raise awareness instead of bothering people in their private homes? I would be happy to help you with library books for this display but no, they just wanted $$$
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