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I have one this week stating I have bought Crypto through Coinbase paying for them by Paypal. And no I haven't.

Most of my spam is for failed deliveries, failed McAfee renewal, failed internet renewal. I'm a bit ruthless because I just delete them all on the basis that if any are genuine, they will try again.

I don't want Voicemail either. Never had it until we got fibre optic land line. it seems impossible to switch off, so I never check it.

You should forward them to report@phishing,gov.uk

That’s such good advice Graham. I’ve been forwarding the scam emails to them for a while and I hardly get any scam emails now.

I heard a discussion on spam emails the other day which suggested that spam emails should be marked as such and moved to the spam folder. I use Thunderbird and it can be set up to do that. The spam folder is then emptied periodically. The reason for this is that it generally trains the system to recognise spam.

I also have a strategy in that I use an email address that I can cancel at any time. If I start getting too much spam I check to make sure that I have not used it for accounts that I wish to keep, in which case I log in and change the email address to the a new account, I then archive emails I wish to keep locally, and then delete the account.

For friends and family plus a few trusted on-line accounts, such as my bank, I use an email address that I don't use for any other purpose. For at least 35 years I have had my own domain and this gives me more control over my emails. Even so I have changed that "private" email address on a few occasions over the years. I keep both email addresses active for a period and advise genuine contacts of the change.

At the moment I get practically no spam or scam and I do have some filters in place that automatically delete some emails with particular key words.

My main issue at the moment is with spam telephone calls using spoofed caller numbers. It is high time that the telecom providers block spoofed numbers from making calls. We, in Italy, have the option of registering our phone numbers with the Register of Opposition (to unsolicited calls). It is Illegal for call centres to call us but they don't give a damn about the law and we get several calls a day. Because they are using spoofed numbers they are almost impossible to identify so the law is almost impossible to enforce. I have completely blocked all numbers from a certain service provider in Switzerland because of continual robot calls from various numbers all starting with the same prefix. If one of our few Swiss friends ever changes to that company and tries to call they will just have to find another way to contact us. On our mobile phones we also use an app Hiya which does help a lot and allows you to report spam calls thereby helping to block them for other people.

Apparently some action has been taken in the UK to block international spoofed calls, https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and...ating-cli-guidance-to-tackle-scam-calls/ , but personally I don't think this is enough and all, except legitimate use, spoofed calls should be blocked.

Google Mail has a "Report as Spam" facility for those that escape the Spam folder initially. I also add unsolicited calls to my blocked numbers listing.

For texts in the UK I forward them to the governments cybercrime text number on 7726.

It is almost a waste of time to do that.
Most unsolicited calls use caller ID spoofed numbers that don't exist. Have you ever wondered why you sometimes get calls from an unknown number that have no voice and disconnect almost immediately? Most likely they are "ping" calls that are computer generated and dialling every number in a sequence to build up a database of used and unused numbers.

The spam callers then use the unused numbers to "spoof" the caller ID. As soon as they find that a number starts to be rejected they switch to another number. Since they have thousands, if not millions, of unused numbers to use you can never block them all.

Almost every day, if not several times in a day, we get calls with the same recorded message, so from the same spammer, but they are always from a different spoofed number. On very rare occasions we get more than one call from the same spoofed number.

Occasionally you can hear sounds in the background that would seem to indicate that even though it is a computer generated call with a recorded message there is an operator that has left a microphone open. I will not repeat what we shout down the line

Exactly Peter.
Though i did one receive a scam call from a number that my CLI displayed as my home number That was a bit of a giveaway!

I received what has to be a scam call yesterday evening.
Someone told me that England had beaten Wales, by 68 - 14 in Cardiff!!

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