If anyone is active on LinkedIn, please feel free to comment and give Mark Henderson a little love.
Albert Shin, Austin Perry, Joel Bernstein Here is my recommendation: instead of only shutting off these accounts (which has probably already happened), pull the IPs and other other indicators (contact e-mail, recovery phone, means and methods of payment) and link them to other accounts. Then make a referral pursuant to 47 USC 222(d)(2) and 18 USC 2702(b)(5) and (c)(3) to Kevin Gallagher and Jason Feldman (Arun Rao).
Because–and I think this is very important–Mark Henderson is the best of us. If he is losing hope we are doomed. The moment we give up the bad guys win.
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Callback vishing email with no subject from [email protected] to me and 300 others. 844-713-1918 belongs to RingCentral according to somos.com.
And no I am not reporting it to Gmail, Norton and RingCentral.
Did I call the number?
No, I didn’t do that either.
Did you let the snake bite you to see if it is venomous?
No, what’s wrong with you?
Don’t ever call the number unless of course you are planning on embarking a lucrative career as a scambaiter.
Here is what I am doing … nothing.
You think it is lack of reporting that is the reason this hasn’t been solved?
You think it is just a few more reports that will put “them” over the top?
This mystery is just waiting to be solved with … that … one …last … clue?
Imagine a skeleton, it’s arm outstretched, in the position of clicking send. It’s last selfless act, even though it couldn’t save itself, was to … save the next skeleton?
Don’t be the skeleton.
Be ungovernable: report nothing and delete almost everything.
You aren’t more special than the rest of us. We are collectivity not special even though each and every one of us is a very, very special snowflake. Oh yes you are!
No renewing subscriptions for products you didn’t purchase, no fake invoices for products you didn’t purchase, no Facebook or PCH lotteries, no government grants/refunds, etc. are actually coming your way.
You are just one of the many recipients of unsolicited commercial email. And unsolicited mail, texts, calls, etc.
Some will be malware.
Some will be phishing.
Some - like this - will be vishing.
And for the love of God, stop pointing your spam email filter at every anti-abuse alias you can find.
Why do people do this?
You wouldn’t do that for telephone calls.
“I know, I’ll alert the local police, the fire department, the FBI, and DHS every time someone I don’t know calls because it could be something they could potentially investigate.”
Those organizations can’t handle what is properly reported to them much less what is sent improperly … for some issue they don’t even handle.
Is the reasoning, that you don’t want to miss any one organization, so you spam every organization?
This is why we can’t have nice things.
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