---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <EB930E23-7791-42B7-99A1-F9EB81F115D4@mishmash.com> Date: 7 Jan 2021 17:24:16 -0700 From: "Fred Atkinson" <fatkinson.remove-this@and-this-too.mishmash.com> Subject: Robocaller Scam I have heard about the scam where they call you with a robocaller and ask if you can hear them. You say 'Yes', they record it, and they play it back as 'proof' that you agreed to a sale that you never agreed to and charges show up on your credit card. I got a call today saying, 'I am a health care worker. Can you hear me?'. I knew better than to say 'Yes'. So I said, 'What do you want?' instead. It immediately hung up. Scam confirmed. I dialed the number back to see if it was the actual number the call originated from or if it was a spoofed number. I got what sounded like a real person when it answered. I asked why they were calling me. It danced around trying to get me to say 'yes'. But I didn't take the bait. It then told me I could be placed on the Do Not Call list by pressing '1'. When I did, I heard the first voice continue to talk and a second one [both at the same time] advising me I had been put on their Do Not Call list. So I hung up. Since it was an actual live number, I logged into my Callcentric account and added that number to my blacklist. So they will get the dreaded SIT tones and then a recording telling them not to call again. I also reported them so that their number will be flagged as being from telemarketers so that other users of this service will get protection as well. The number was (602) 560-2279. Add that to your blacklist if you want to stop them.. Bill, you can delete this paragraph if you don't want the number to be published. Either way is fine with me. Let the telephone subscriber beware! Fred ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210108175621.156E0751@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 17:56:21 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Analysis: TV providers should not escape scrutiny for distributing disinformation Analysis by Oliver Darcy, CNN Business "Fox and Newsmax, both delivered to my home by your company, are complicit," NJ state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty texted a Comcast executive on Thursday. "What are you going to do???" https://www.kitv.com/story/43143802/analysis-tv-providers-should-not-escape-scrutiny-for-distributing-disinformation ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210108005225.DEBA2761@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 00:52:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Yesterday's Insurrection Was An Attack on Democracy by White Supremacists and Fascists A statement from CWA President Chris Shelton: Thursday, January 7, 2021 Yesterday, the world watched as armed insurrectionists, with the encouragement of the President of the United States, launched an attack on the Capitol in an attempt to undermine our democracy and prevent Congress from certifying the results of the Presidential election. https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/yesterdays-insurrection-was-attack-on-democracy-white-supremacists-and-fascists ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20210107222458.0FB77761@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2021 22:24:58 +0000 (UTC) From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app The Facebook-owned messenger with 2 billion users revamps its privacy policy. By Dan Goodin WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete their accounts. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/whatsapp-users-must-share-their-data-with-facebook-or-stop-using-the-app/ ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Sat, 09 Jan 2021