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May 12, 2012, 12:14 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
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Just got another one of those calls yesterday, just two days after getting a similar call. Both phone numbers have the same prefix, and both callers left messages sounding like they were reading from a script.
"Found your resume online & would like to set up an interview for my manager." WHO are you people???? Who is your manager? She didn't say on the second call, but on the first one, it was some kind of insurance company. They want you to sell insurance or get people to invest in their company, I'm sure.
Not only do scam jobs use phony addresses, they can use phony phone numbers. Use Caller ID as a guide; a shady company can "spoof" the ID, using a legitimate's company's phone number. (Just like you get spam e-mails from legitimate looking "senders") You then find out from the real company that they are not calling people. Sometimes the number shown is a disconnected number!
I must say that the plus side to the Internet is finding out a lot of other people are getting calls from some number, and you see you aren't alone. Or you can confirm your suspicions by Googling the number.
But that being said, I still prefer the "old days". More of a human touch, and like I said in my last post, I NEVER GOT ANY SCAM PHONE CALLS! And of course no e-mails since tech didn't exist yet.
 (I seem to be using that emoticon a lot lately, but it's the best one to explain my sentiments on this, among other things!)
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