local number with a person's name. It was a Medicare spammer, ... call to me had been made while her phone was at work. She said she was changing her number that day. ... cell phone. Who woulda thought?
Many complete mindscrews to me here, makes me feel way out of my depth, sorry for my curiosity, I'm intrigued:
Do your cell phones have
local numbers?? (Closest I can get is calling a mate under a local number, which gets to his cell phone, but when he calls from that phone, it's necessarily a mobile number. Which means from the first digits we can only see the provider, or ex-provider if number porting had been done, but nothing ever about the person or locality.)
Do your phone calls have a person's name added?? (We only ever get a number, unless that number is in our personal phone directory of course.)
And what is a
Medicare spammer?? What do they try to do? (It's unthinkable here for insurances here to spam anyone, least of all a sickness insurance. As far as I know. A quick search doesn't turn up anything different. But I'll ask around. We do get landline spam calls, but most of us don't answer the phone, but look it up on the web and can then tell if it's likely a call centre or find out exactly who it is.)
Does a local number mean a number from the area you live in, as I thought it meant, or does it just mean a landline number?? If a local number where you live isn't that a really rural desert type place: that wouldn't be anywhere I'd expect a Medicare spammer running around pinching phones off of other people, I wouldn't even have expected a workplace near there? Or does a local number mean your state? (Here we can see from a local
landline number which
village or often which part of a town someone's living in.)
What kind of workplace is that where someone would want to and is able to temporarily steal and misuse someone else's phone, left lying around unattended?
Why would it be an advantage to a spammer to take someone else's phone for a short time, and what would be the sense, how for instance would that person be able to tape the answers and use them to sneak in a contract (that would be the worst things they'd try to do here).
Why would she need to change the number if the phone was only temporarily used? Which would be the only sort of explanation I was able to try to see at all for a person to temporarily steal another's phone...
- I think I'm gonna have to learn a lot soon!