{"id":3490,"date":"2015-01-08T11:02:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T16:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=3490"},"modified":"2021-11-04T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:40:53","slug":"205-632-0015-magicjack-telespam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2015\/01\/08\/205-632-0015-magicjack-telespam.html","title":{"rendered":"205-632-0015 &#8211; magicJack Telespam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robocall from Alabama area code. I need to look this up again but my understanding is that when a robocall asks you to &#8220;Press 1 to hear more&#8221; or to &#8220;Press 2 to be taken off our *SPECIAL* list&#8221; they are essentially throwing out a telephonic fishing lure. If you hit any button then you are considered to have opted in, regardless of whether you hit the 1 or the 2 button. Press one button and whoever is behind the robocalls has full privilege to bombard you with future calls.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3490-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/msg0001-9.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/msg0001-9.mp3\">https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/msg0001-9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>A few years ago I called Verizon from one of the <a title=\"NYPL Phone Booths\" href=\"https:\/\/www.payphone-project.com\/step_into_the_new_york_public_library_phone_booths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">phone booths at the New York Public Library<\/a> to cancel the landline account. The call proved to be unnecessary, as opening the magicJack account itself automatically initiated the cancellation of Verizon. I keep magicJack open mostly for old time&#8217;s sake, to keep the old landline number alive. All it gets is crap calls like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robocall from Alabama area code. I need to look this up again but my understanding is that when a robocall asks you to &#8220;Press 1 to hear more&#8221; or to &#8220;Press 2 to be taken off our *SPECIAL* list&#8221; they are essentially throwing out a telephonic fishing lure. If you hit any button then you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landlinemagicjack","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-Ui","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30290,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/30290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}