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What was the threat on gun control here with the last one DM?  Hoping you post these up to youtube so I can hear the last one. Three calls in one day is harassment in MO.. and calling almost every single day as well! What male cow bowel matter!

Go for the throat!

Based on others' notes on 800Notes, this is a solar scam.  First one I've had from this number, and the person on the other end asked my voicemail for Mr. or Mrs., then said hello a couple of times as if expecting an answer.  I figure if they don't identify themselves and don't have the brains they are talking to a machine, can't be legitimate. 

LOL! Nice!  I've messed with them over three calls..

The first one was a lady, well, maybe not so much a lady but definitely a her..
Me:

"Windows?"

"Really?"

"I don't need new windows!" click.

No call back on that one.

The second one was pretty funny.. It was using a very bad voice mask program so made it sound like he was 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Me:

"I can't understand what …

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In the forum threads dealing with lottery scams (supposedly from Facebook, Nokia, etc.), there are hundreds of posters who received the message (or "massage") that they won and want to know if it's true.  
Here's a BBC article about an Indian man who traveled thousands of miles to the Delhi bureau of the corporation after getting a text claiming he won a mythical "BBC lottery":
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Robo-Racketeering Rachel Quotes of the Day; 

"It rains on everyone, the Just and the Unjust, but it rains on the Just more. The Unjust stole the umbrella."


Schadenfreude; 1. gloating at somebody else's bad luck: malicious or smug pleasure taken in somebody else's misfortune.

General Telemarketing Rules and Regulations
‘This link is for the National Do Not Call List
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/telemarketing.htm


The CRTC runs the Canadian DNCL  Here is a link for filing a complaint
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/rapidsccm/register.asp?lang=e
Collection Agencies
Information on collection agencies
Here are the Canadian Rules for Debt Collectors courtesy of [url=http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/h_ca02149.html]…

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