A reviewer of the vonage service, at http://www.longmeadcrossing.com/vonage.cfm, notes its use has virtually eliminated telemarketer calls. It might provide additional privacy protection. If you try vonage, note the need for an UPS for the required cable modem and router should your power fail, unless you have a cellphone for backup. I'm also still trying to determine if I can plug in my whole house (8 extensions).
/. users have posted excellent advice on preventing ID theft or dealing with it and I've seen that with other topics. Is there an easy way to save all the messages or contents of all the messages so they can be edited and condensed down to a great list of advice, or must it be done one--at--a--time....? I'd like to keep it, just in case, and send to friends, with proper credit to/. of course;)
Has anyone seen a report relecting these characteristics, like the clustered mail boxes: urban vs rural, age, sex, part of the country, income bracket, apt vs home occupant, etc. It might help tell whose more likely to be targeted, though the victims appear to be rather random. Also, I've not seen reference to older people being targeted and it seems like they might be, because offenders would consider them to be slower to detect the problem and respond. Which leads to the suggestion that we should be raising the flag with anyone who is not aware this has become a big problem, such as aged parents.
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A reviewer of the vonage service, at http://www.longmeadcrossing.com/vonage.cfm, notes
its use has virtually eliminated telemarketer calls. It might provide additional privacy protection. If you try vonage, note the need for an UPS for the required cable modem and router should your power fail, unless you have a cellphone for backup. I'm also still trying to determine if I can plug in my whole house (8 extensions).
/. users have posted excellent advice on preventing ID theft or dealing with it and I've seen that with other topics. Is there an easy way to save all the messages or contents of all the messages so they can be edited and condensed down to a great list of advice, or must it be done one--at--a--time....? I'd like to keep it, just in case, and send to friends, with proper credit to /. of course ;)
Has anyone seen a report relecting these characteristics, like the clustered mail boxes: urban vs rural, age, sex, part of the country, income bracket, apt vs home occupant, etc. It might help tell whose more likely to be targeted, though the victims appear to be rather random. Also, I've not seen reference to older people being targeted and it seems like they might be, because offenders would consider them to be slower to detect the problem and respond. Which leads to the suggestion that we should be raising the flag with anyone who is not aware this has become a big problem, such as aged parents.