Guest guest Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 In a message dated 5/28/2006 11:20:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mjs93311@... writes: Youse guys can see why I don't like those search engines, working at a prison with murders and rapists. I don't even let my colleges print my info in their alumni directories. At least, I hope they didn't. Sigh. Marta __________________________________ Anything can be used wrongly, I don't blame you for being cautious. I meant to use it as an example of how much information can be accessed by typing in a few relevant terms. Then again there are times when I can't find anything I'm looking for. With ann I had to have some background or I would not have known who it was. It was back when my Phone died and all my numbers were in the phone book of the other phone. Has anyone talked to Ann lately? Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 28, 2006 Report Share Posted May 28, 2006 Youse guys can see why I don't like those search engines, working at a prison with murders and rapists. I don't even let my colleges print my info in their alumni directories. At least, I hope they didn't. Sigh. Marta > I love google. You can find anything. I wanted to findpositively Ann's Phone > number and typed her name in the google engine and found her phone number > through a swim meet web site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 In a message dated 5/29/2006 9:39:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, mjs93311@... writes: Anyway, my home addy is for sale on the internet, I saw it myself. ALso, that is why my credit report is absolute crap: ___________________________ For sale? who would do something like that? Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Marta, agreed...I'm on a couple of BB's I've been on for years and people don't understand why I don't mind having my picture taken when we gather in 3-D...but I won't post it online and ask them not to do so. Or my last name or my occupation or last place of employment or husband's last place of employment or his fisrst name or daughter's name and so on. It's becaue I have a long-time stalker who is more of a pain than a danger...I hope. But you'd think after the first five or ten years, he'd get the hint. But, no. Not THIS Bozo. How about almost THIRTY years? The calls dropped dramatically when he retired (I guess he didn't want his new wife asking about them) and even more so when he moved out of town. But every once in a while, he's IN town and somebody lets him near a phone and " all he wants to do " is see me or talk to me...so I'm not providing that " pleasure " for him. Ergo, the caller ID screening on our phone, too. AND, MARTA!!! It isn't one of the *prisoners* from where I worked long ago...it's one of the ones with a badge and gun. Stay cautious!! > > Youse guys can see why I don't like those search engines, working at a > prison with murders and rapists. I don't even let my colleges print my > info in their alumni directories. At least, I hope they didn't. Sigh. > > Marta > > > > I love google. You can find anything. I wanted to findpositively > Ann's Phone > > number and typed her name in the google engine and found her phone > number > > through a swim meet web site. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Sue, thanks for the reminder. I wear my ring all the time and say " my husband " frequently. I do not hang out with the officers. Not all the scary people are behind the bars, I have observed that. Anyway, my home addy is for sale on the internet, I saw it myself. ALso, that is why my credit report is absolute crap: I left it that way on purpose since it might make finding me more difficult, not to mention stealing my ID, well, it ain't worth stealing! lol Marta behind a state-of-the-art security system! > AND, MARTA!!! It isn't one of the *prisoners* from where I worked long > ago...it's one of the ones with a badge and gun. > > Stay cautious!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Oh, Mel, it is big business! For $29.99 you can buy anyones address. Marta > For sale? who would do something like that? > Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Yeah...it's tough to make yourself invisible. If you own property, it's even more difficult. You have to make your trust (because we all have one, right?) the owner of the property and make the name of the trust a little more obscure...like it doesn't start out with your name. But when you get down to having to worrying about people who have access to DMV records, I guess we're all stuck with Rented Mailboxes or something. > > Oh, Mel, it is big business! For $29.99 you can buy anyones address. > > Marta > > > > For sale? who would do something like that? > > Mel > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 Telemarketers - or more specifically, those who sell to them. > > > In a message dated 5/29/2006 9:39:16 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > mjs93311@... writes: > > Anyway, my > home addy is for sale on the internet, I saw it myself. ALso, that is > why my credit report is absolute crap: > > > ___________________________ > > For sale? who would do something like that? > Mel > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 One easy way to get less junk mail when you move is DO NOT put in a change of address with the post office. They are the biggest offenders when it comes to selling your information. Yes, it's true! My husband and I get only the catalogs and magazines we WANT to receive. We rarely, if ever, get telemarketing calls because we never give out our phone number to businesses unless it's absolutely required (by the way, you don't have to give your number when you use your credit card), and we use the " disconnected " tone at the beginning of the message on our answering machine. Since most telemarketers use computers to dial, the computer hangs up and notes our number as " not in service " before it ever gets to the message itself. Tracey > > > > Oh, Mel, it is big business! For $29.99 you can buy anyones address. > > > > Marta > > > > > > > For sale? who would do something like that? > > > Mel > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 In a message dated 5/29/2006 12:37:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, mjs93311@... writes: Oh, Mel, it is big business! For $29.99 you can buy anyones address. Marta ________________ Oh, Anyone! Geeze, I thought maybe some evil person was selling it to cons so they could get you when they got out....LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 29, 2006 Report Share Posted May 29, 2006 In a message dated 5/29/2006 1:45:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, snurfles2@... writes: We rarely, if ever, get telemarketing calls because we never give out our phone number to businesses unless it's absolutely required (by the way, you don't have to give your number when you use your credit card), and we use the " disconnected " tone at the beginning of the message on our answering machine. Since most telemarketers use computers to dial, the computer hangs up and notes our number as " not in service " before it ever gets to the message itself. Tracey, I have the phone tray, I downloaded from the Internet. You can put certain #'s in and when they ring you can set them to hang up. You can add a message. With mine, unknowns answer after the first ring and get a message with a loud God-like voice(the one from 10 commandments) says " you shall not pass! " ....I also like it because you can set a quiet time and it will pick up any call. It also come in handy with a teenaged daughter when some idiot girl got mad and was cussing out because her boyfriend called .I just put her name in and it picked up and hung up. Didn't take too long for the calls to stop. Then she tried to *67 and call and same thing! It was funny. Mel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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