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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: call from 510-854-4017 legit or not ?
Date: 10 May 2024 14:47:59 GMT
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A little earlier, I wrote:
> micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> > In comp.mobile.android, on Thu, 9 May 2024 18:10:42 -0700, The Real Bev
> > <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >On 5/9/24 5:56 PM, Adam wrote:
> > >> On 05/08/2024 09:43 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, 6 May 2024 18:24:21 -0400, knuttle wrote:
> > >>>> Subject: Re: call from 510-854-4017 legit or not ?
> > >>>> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
> > >>>> Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 18:24:21 -0400
> > >>>> From: knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com>
> > >>>> Message-ID: <v1blam$2qgha$1@dont-email.me>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 05/06/2024 3:15 PM, Jörg Lorenz wrote:
> > >>>>> [quoted text muted]
> > >>>>> the name of the caller and let them proceed to the answering machine.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> That solves 90% of the cases.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>> Google search on the number 510-854-4017
> > >>>>
> > >>>> returns this page
> > >>>> https://directory.youmail.com/phone/510-248-4017
> > >>>>
> > >>>> (510) 248-4017 is a Debt Collector
> > >>>> Name    Debt Collector    Location    Fremont, CA US
> > >>>
> > >>> I saw that too, and nearly posted the same thing. But I noticed in
> > >>> time that the phone number returned in the Google results is not the
> > >>> same as the phone number searched for (854 versus 248).
> > >>>
> > >>> Google searches are getting worse and worse, month by month and year
> > >>> by year.
> > 
> > Giving a hit with a partly different phone number is not an example of
> > gettting worse.  They always have given close when they can't find
> > exact. 
> 
>   Indeed. Keith (Nuttle) probably didn't do an exact search, because if
> you do - i.e. double quotes around the phone number - the first result
> *does* list the specified number.
> 
> <https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+phone+number+%22510-854-4017%22>
> 
> -> <https://directory.youmail.com/phone/510-854-1594> ->
> 
> "(510) 854-1594 is a Preapproved Loan Scam"

  Oops! Sorry! Similar mistake (as Keith made). The correct number *is*
listed in the Google hit, so you have to *re-do* the search on the
YouMail site:

<https://directory.youmail.com/phone?phoneNumber=5108544017&>

"(510) 854-4017 was a Legal Complaint Scam"