podgerodge
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Only email addresses which I was aware of having been thrown around over the years, but no surname/mobile numbers.There is a good chance your details were sold by a website/service you have used in the past or they were hacked from a company database.
I recommend using https://haveibeenpwned.com/
They compare your details to hacking reports and alert you if you have been exposed.
The problem is they now come from mobile numbers and lately from ,what appears to be, land line numbers ...so it's not always possible to not answer.. ...Dont answer unknown numbers and block the scam texts.
Have you tried submitting all email addresses you have used over the years, work and personal? There are aggregation services operating in the black market that specialise in collating information from multiple breaches to build more detailed profiles of individuals and sell them on to others who leverage the additional data to attempt more complex scams.Only email addresses which I was aware of having been thrown around over the years, but no surname/mobile numbers.
What if its an emergency? Somebody taken ill? A family member in need of help, lost their phone and needed to use somebody elses phone.Dont answer unknown numbers
Agreed. The risks or potential important calls or inconvenience from ignoring numbers not in your book is too great.What if its an emergency? Somebody taken ill? A family member in need of help, lost their phone and needed to use somebody elses phone.
Agreed. You can always answer and if you don't recognize the voice or the reason for the call just hang up..Agreed. The risks or potential important calls or inconvenience from ignoring numbers not in your book is too great.
Even easier to reply with a text.The problem is they now come from mobile numbers and lately from ,what appears to be, land line numbers ...so it's not always possible to not answer.. ...
But it is easy to hang up..
Funny that, have been doing it for years and nothing dreadful has happened.Agreed. The risks or potential important calls or inconvenience from ignoring numbers not in your book is too great.
Most genuine people don't block their number.What if its an emergency? Somebody taken ill? A family member in need of help, lost their phone and needed to use somebody elses phone.
Scammers know that and most of them now spoof the numbers they call on. There is little point blocking numbers that you receive scam calls on as they rotate them all the time.Most genuine people don't block their number.
I heard a story , perhaps you did too , about a guy getting a call from someone telling them that there was a problem with their computer. He engaged in conversation with him. He was asked to open windows...after about ten minutes of talk he said would you mind if I close the windows now as it is getting cold.Scammers know that and most of them now spoof the numbers they call on. There is little point blocking numbers that you receive scam calls on as they rotate them all the time.
I like to answer calls I suspect are scams, I don't really engage much with them but I waste a little of their time, and that's time they then can't spend trying to scam someone else.
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