---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <6525919f-15fe-4614-9fd8-d253e19d2d95@googlegroups.com> Date: 17 Jan 2019 12:46:27 -0800 From: HAncock4 <withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Re: New telephone evildoers? On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 6:16:21 PM UTC-5, Brian Gordon wrote: > I'm aware of evildoers trying to record you saying "yes" on the > phone, but I think I got a variant this afternoon. After the usual > "This is xxx calling on a recorded line" stuff, they said they > wanted some poilitical opinions. > > I wasn't busy, so I held on. The questions were to be answered > "approve, dissaprove, or no opinion". Sounded a little strange > instead of a simple yes/no, but I answered "approve" to the first > question. Then they asked telecom me to repeat that - and I hung > up. > > Perhaps I'm now schediled to answer "approve" on some slimey sales > pitch. Unless you give out your credit card number, I don't understand how recording your "approval" could result in getting any money. I can't see how they'd collect. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190116233502.GA23458@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 18:35:02 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Sprint follows T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon by promising to stop selling user location data Sprint will halt sales sometime in the coming months By Cohen Coberly Motherboard dropped a bombshell last week when it revealed that mobile carriers have been selling their customers' live location data to third parties. Those third parties then sold the data to other third parties, and eventually -- through a long and complex chain of custody -- the information ended up in the hands of bounty hunters and other less-scrupulous individuals. https://www.techspot.com/news/78305-sprint-follows-t-mobile-att-verizon-promising-stop.html -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190117212610.GA27200@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:26:10 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Verizon Wireless Exposed for Union-Busting This is a copy of an email I received from the Communications Workers of America: - - - - - - - - - - - As wireless workers build power in their industry, Verizon Wireless is showing that it's terrified at the idea of workers joining together to have a voice in the workplace. A new report from The Guardian exposes Verizon's union-busting tactics, including internal documents the company has been circulating to encourage anti-union rhetoric and disparage unions. Workers at Verizon Wireless have recently gathered momentum in their organizing efforts, with store employees in Hazleton, Pa., overcoming an aggressive anti-union campaign to join CWA last July. In August, Brooklyn wireless workers successfully beat back a vicious decertification attempt from Verizon. "Verizon Wireless continues to try to intimidate workers with its anti-union tactics," said Dennis Trainor, Vice President of CWA District 1 and chair of CWA's Wireless Workers United network. "But as we recently saw in Brooklyn and Hazleton, Pa., Verizon Wireless workers understand that joining together in a union gives them real power at work. Working people all over the country, like those at Verizon Wireless, are standing up for themselves and their communities, and CWA is proud to help them fight against corporate greed and for fairness in their workplaces." -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190117210721.GA27099@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:07:21 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Paging Mike Spencer [nfp] I've just received a post from Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>. I need to talk to him, but I don't think the email on his post will work. ;-) Mike, please contact me off-list. I promise to keep your email address secret - how could I betray a blacksmith who uses (ding)? I can be reached at the address shown here: mikespencer@telecondigest.net. Thanks. Bill -- Bill Horne Moderator [An attachment of type application/pgp-signature was included here] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20190117231250.GA27958@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:12:50 -0500 From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> Subject: Paging Mike Spencer [Corrected] [nfp] I've just received a post from Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>. I need to talk to him, but I don't think the email on his post will work. ;-) Mike, please contact me off-list. I promise to keep your email address secret - how could I betray a blacksmith who uses (ding)? I can be reached at the address shown here: mikespencer@telecomdigest.net. Thanks to danny burstein for pointing out a typo. Bill -- Bill Horne Moderator [An attachment of type application/pgp-signature was included here] ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Fri, 18 Jan 2019