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From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: They are not usually so honest
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2025 20:22:48 -0400
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On 6/19/25 3:36 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <83885kd5o69dn3sbdnn2m4d7ltng2e97j1@4ax.com>,
> Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Spammer:  First we need to verify your information
>>
>> Me:  First we need to verify that you got my number from a
>> legimate source.
>>
>> Spammer:  That is not the case
> 
> [Hal Heydt]
> not quite the same thing, but one of my latest tactics on cold
> calls is the ask who they are trying to contact.  Amazing how
> often that is followed by a few seconds of silence and a <click>.
> 
> I still get calls asking for my late wife--who died at the end of
> June 2022.  My standard answer is that she is no longer at this
> number. It's mildly surprising that no caller ever asks if I have
> a new number for her (it's been suggested that I supply the
> number of Dial-a-Prayer) and no one ever asks why she is not
> longer available.
> 
> A real irritation is the kind of call I got this morning asking
> for her.  When told that she was no longer at this number, the
> guy launched into his fund raising spiel at me.

I got a spam call two days after Mark died.  When the spammer asked how 
I was, I said "My husband died two days ago; what do you think?" and he 
immediately launched into his spiel.

(I normally don't answer the landline, but while Mark was in the 
hospital/nursing home, and then afterwards for a while, I did, because 
it could have been important.)

-- 
Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn
Trump promised if I voted for Harris in 2024 the stock
market would crash.  I did, and it has.  -uncredited