Is this real or spam?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by king v, Jun 8, 2018.

  1. mover man

    mover man Road Train Member

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    ???
     
  2. x1Heavy

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    Staples or Office depot sells DVD's that hold business phone numbers for entire USA valid for 2018.

    Buy disk. Buy laptop. Put disk in for your location. Find phone number call. If it is a business such as a pizza place in tumbleweed farwaway AZ somewhere you know what the number is there with that DVD.

    Online with pay sites it's possible now to have about 500 million or so USA numbers that are active nationwide. You can dig up whatever you need to when you throw enough money at a pay site.
     
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  3. x1Heavy

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    To split the reply. Our State Attorney who monitors the incoming spoofing and spammers calling our phones stated that 400 million or so residental smart phones in the USA can be swept by computers run by telemarketers in about 7 minutes and all are called in a certain amount of time.

    Any phone answering by a human is pegged as a valid number and targeted for sales etc. It has been a problem enough for me to migrate 5 different phone numbers now and changed carriers three times in the last 9 months.

    Millions are on do not call lists like ours. But we still get calls anyway.
     
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  4. mover man

    mover man Road Train Member

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    Online spam, just read it. Look at the sentence structure (or lack there of). Also note the lack of punctuation. Sounds to me like it was written by someone, who English is NOT there first language.
     
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  5. king v

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    My mind is blown. They did way more with those discs back then than I thought.
     
  6. IluvCATS

    IluvCATS Road Train Member

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    Discs will blow your mind. We should bring those back.
     
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  7. SteveScott

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    Trucking companies buy email and phone number lists all the time and spam the heck out of them. I've gotten calls, texts and emails from dozens of companies I've never applied to. Just block it and move on.
     
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  8. angrytrans

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    IV gotten informal messages like this before. Most of the time they are legit. Companies are moving towards the new technical age looking for younger drivers.
     
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  9. GreenPete359

    GreenPete359 Road Train Member

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    Ummm it’s US Xpress. Not US Express. So yea...
     
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  10. king v

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    That actually did throw me off.
     
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