This is a rant, but it is political, in a sense.
I recently retired, and have therefore been spending a lot of time at home, though it obviously hasn’t increased my productivity so far as blogging is concerned.
We still have a land line. Every day I get phone calls from scammers. Brenda, a “Medicare Adviser” for example, calls me almost every day, from assorted locations, to scam me. I never listen long enough to find out the precise nature of the scam, because I hang up on her, but I figure she doesn’t take it personally, since she’s not a person. Yesterday, “Mike”, “Dave”, and another Guy with an Indian accent whose Americanized name I can’t recall, each called separately on behalf of Senior Advisersto scam me. They called again this morning and my wife got the call, apparently it’s an insurance scam.
When I was working I was the go to guy for some of my co-workers to examine emails to determine if they were from scammers, so I’m not likely to fall for one of these things, but it’s clear simply from the volume that they must be successful in quite a few cases. I even know someone who fell for the scam about fixing your Windows computer. We geezers are being fleeced right and left and one must wonder, why isn’t anyone doing anything about it. Couldn’t the FCC, when it isn’t busy handing the internet over to the ISPs, spend a bit of time on this? How about the FTC? How about Congress itself? Why isn’t anyone pressuring the phone companies themselves to do something about them? Or how about the banks, through which most of the money they scam must flow?
My phone tells me the alleged location of many of these callers. It is often random locations within Connecticut, places I’m sure Brenda, for instance, has never visited. I mean, unless you live there, have you ever gone to Jewett City?
These are criminal enterprises, and although I’m sure they go to lengths to make it hard to track them down, it shouldn’t be all that hard if the relevant people and corporations made a concerted effort to get them.
End of rant.
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