And so it begins: Paypal phone spam
- June 19th, 2015
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I have a Google Voice number that I set up a couple of weeks ago solely to give to PayPal, given their new horrible data-mining and cold-calling-by-anyone terms of service.
I have given this number to quite literally no one outside my lair. (And not even everyone in it!) I even added it to the Do Not Call registry. So guess what I got today that could only have come through one place?
Die in a fire, Paypal.
If you have a PayPal account, get a throwaway number for it, because the spam robocalls are coming.
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Or could it have been a wrong number?
It would have to be fairly wrong. (As in, wrong area code for the supposed service area of the caller.) But, fair enough, you never know.
BTW: You may want to make a “spam number” for PayPal. http://t.co/rbD6LeQd9q
Could be robocalls from other autodialling devices/entities. My cell isn’t on PayPal and I get crap like that every few days. Yes it could still be them, but that is not a surety.
I don’t, really. But, certainly, it can’t be ruled out.
Makes me feel better about not answering a phone call unless I recognize the number, that and being too lazy to set up voice mail again after my carrier broke it.