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John Byrne
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Posted: 15 August 2022 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Just received an email from someone I never heard of telling me I have won a brand new iPhone--but move fast, because the offer expires 8 February 2022.

Uhm......

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Craig Earl
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Posted: 15 August 2022 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

And somewhere, there's a Nigerian prince who wonders why no one will accept his once in a lifetime offer...!
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Michael Roberts
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Posted: 15 August 2022 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

but move fast

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Faster than lightspeed while breaking away from the gravitational pull of a star, maybe?
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Rebecca Jansen
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Posted: 15 August 2022 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Style of the times. My parents who don't even have email accounts continue to answer their landline telephone even with a display they can screen out for people and numbers they don't know. They sometimes get upset and it wastes time or disturbs sleep, but they're old and 'it might be important'. They wouldn't know an iPhone from any other kind or expect it to do anything except make an audio connection. Marketers are mostly left with them and I can't imagine they get anywhere with them as far as actual sales unless there's some kind of fraud trick involved (who ever did a lot of business over the phone via cold calls in the past that paved the way for the amounts of this crap now anyway, and who allowed spoof numbers, what legit purpose was their for someone to have a name and number displayed that is not the number or people calling?).

The rest of us now almost never answer phones or open many emails/texts. Progress.
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Michael Hogan
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Posted: 15 August 2022 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

I never open the emails, but BOY do I have endless fun
with the telemarketer calls!
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