Strange text

[Charon]

i am angry beyond belief as i fell for this dress lilly. i got not one iota of second pack. all the tops to the jeans.

rat bastards. get some workers in ur shop whom can read orders and respond accordingly. they only send half an order.

is this happening with vendors and retailers? oh. just to me, i guess.

carry on. i just want to stress to people to never use dress lilly. clothes r crap. service is crap. and u get half of what u ordered.
sighs.

[Orange rabbit]

Charon, that is just wrong about the clothes. It's one this
Ng about getting calls and texts, but clothes, thanks for the warning on this one also.
OR

[dynalift]

Slightly off-topic anecdote: Couple years ago, I sold a camera on craigslist and stupidly put my phone number in the ad.

The camera sold fine, local guy, paid cash, no problems. Then a few months later, the calls started. Computerized voice: "This is ____ County Prison, and an inmate is trying to reach you, press 1 to enter your credit card number and accept the call" or somesuch nonsense. I got calls from about 20 different prisons around the US. But always the same recorded voice.

It got so bad I was getting between 5-10 of these calls a day. Couldn't keep up with blocking the numbers. So I went on a fact finding mission. 

It seems phone numbers get 'collected' by inmates from internet sources (like CL)...the numbers get put on a list and sold/passed around to other inmates, and so on and so on. Apparently some of these inmates spend large parts of their day going down the lists hoping they can hook a sucker into believing they have an incarcerated relative who needs money wired for bail.

But wait! There's a middleman, of course! Because these various prisons around the country all contract their inmates' outgoing phone calls through the same damn corporation. Yeah, surprise, surprise, corporate America gets their cut. The receiver of the call has to pay something like $20 bucks for the first minute plus a 2-3 bucks for each addt'l minute. The BBB has thousands of complaints...from people who were legitimately trying to talk to an inmate. Their cards were getting charged for say 10 minutes, but the call was dropped after the first 2...or its never connected...etc etc.

Anyway, the conclusion is that I finally got the number of the HQ of this call forwarding corporation, called them and waited on hold for 30 minutes, and finally was able to get my number blocked. The operator sounded like he fielded these complaints all day, every day. He even warned me, now if anyone you know really does go to prison, they won't be able to call you, are you sure you want to do this?

OK its been 3 years since I had my number 'blocked' and all is quiet, I will give them credit for that much. But I'm definitely being more cautious about where my phone number goes now.

[Charon]

I never got a call. Maybe when i was first an attorney. How irksome. Everyone has a game but for good people like us.

sighs.

I don't believe in the BBB though either. When I tried to make a legit complaint a few yrs back, I was told by BBB that I had to pay a fee to make a complaint. Others have since told me its all rigged and whomever pays BBB the most, will win.

Those Home Advisor services? The first one was Angie's List i believe its called. So many trolls whom got bad feedback on her site, or were not included, ruined her site with fake complaints, that a whole new career opportunity built up. People are now paid to go thru comments and stuff on like home advisor, check out legitimacy of complaint, and remove the fake ones.

At least those prisoners don't have ur address. I know christian women used to visit prisoners cuz the bible says to. I don't feel the need. And, the criminals get regular women to help them break out. Or, if the inmate breaks out, he goes to the poor penpals home address.

It does not end well.

Man, we have many a gimmick going on out there. Brutal.

[Sudsy]

WOW thank you all for the information you really have to be careful.

Sudsy