Last week I had to voice mails on my answering machine and later two on my cell phone. The messages were garbled at the beginning but threatened legal consequences if the notice was disregarded, and ended with the number to return the call immediately. I erased the messages on the phone, but the following week, I noticed on the voicemails on the cell phone that it said "Sacramento, Main DA". Was it the district attorney calling. I showed them to my husband who looked up on line and discovered it was a scam and many people related how they'd called the number and it was completely phony. I'm grateful I gotten more cautious, but was appalled at how genuine the message appeared to be.
So much wrong speech is besieging us that it feels unsafe to return any calls if it's not a friend. The communication device is isolating us. My favorite is "Unavailable 1". If they are so unavailable I guess I will be too. They want to keep their privacy while invading ours. Then there are the names that make it seem like a person, but when you pick up it's someone trying to get you to donate to an organization. Even the phone company and my bank attack me with messages that make me think something is wrong, but not really. They want to SELL me something as well. Give me a break!
I'm not sure why we're not better protected from these misery makers, but it seems to have something to do with the surrender of protection of privacy on all fronts. We're going to regret this, and I already do, but the genie cannot be stuffed back in the bottle.
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