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by Anonymous User on Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 02:33:46 PM PDT

Most of these robomessages do not identify themselves or their supposed products and are of the "push X now for more info / to be taken off our list [= lie]" variety. I screen my calls and am on DNC lists precisely because such a high proportion are worthless. Don't call me; I'll call you.

These people and their tactics are the telephonic equivalent of spammers, selling generally worthless, fraudulent products, often from offshore beyond the reach of DNC lists. That's what I find when I look up the few identifying marks of a given message on google.

It's just the next front in the spam war. Spam via phone calls, thanks to good old cheap, hard-to-trace VOIP and plenty of cheap offshore labor.

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