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Phone scammers...not too bright!

MoodyBlues
Martha Moser said:
My go to fun (think cat with mouse) are the extended warranty mullets. I get almost giddy with them when they ask if I'm interested. 'Yes, I'm very interested'.
We live on a horse farm and my work trucks are a 92 Chevrolet Silverado stepside with 353,000 miles and a 1997 Ford 1 ton 4dr powerstroke diesel 4 wheel drive with 280,000. CLICK.
Hmmm, gotta get this phone checked. I get disconnected every time🤔
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Love it! :D

You're apparently having the same problem I am, that abrupt *CLICK* while in mid-sentence. :o Oh well. ;)
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Somehow my number showed on a call log for someone I never called

svim
Michele white said:
...What I don't understand is what anyone would gain from this type of fraudulent activity. Anyone have any ideas?
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Telemarketers, spammers, and other such deviants won't use their own phone numbers, their activities could be easily tracked back to themselves. By spoofing somebody's phone number this gives them the ability to do their robocalling or whatever (selling goods or services) with minimal risk or conflict on their part.
Most of us are now being conditioned to ignore phone call/voice mails from unknown sources but in any number of situations ignoring random phone calls isn't an option -- i.e. a business can't neglect interacting with its customers, a school can't ignore a call from a parent, etc.

It you haven't already it might be more prudent if you notify your sister-in-law about what happened to you. In the case of you or both of you having your phone numbers being spoofed, she might want to contact her carrier and see if there's anything they can do on their end.
https://turbofuture.com/cell-phones/Telemarketers-Are-Using-My-Number-How-I-Stopped-Them
You might also want to file a complaint with the FCC. This won't involve any action on their part, especially since Ajit Pai's FCC is notoriously anti-consumer/pro-business (phone number spoofing as a business practice is surprising legal, although though this has been that way long before Trump/Pai came along), but your situation at least gets documented as a pervasive problem:
https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/360001201223
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Music Player - audio file not supported - Solved

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I have a similar problem on a Samsung Galaxy S6. For some albums (not all of them) and each of the mp3 files in those albums, if I navigate to the track using the Samsung music player, and try to play the track, I get the not supported error message. It won't play from a playlist either. If I navigate to the file using File Manager, select the file, and ask to play it using Samsung music player, it plays without a problem. So it *can* play the track, but just doesn't want to if I use the player's own GUI to find it. I tried reformatting a file to be CBR rather than VBR as suggested in some other posts, doesn't help. I tried changing the album name so that it doesn't contain accented characters and is shorter than 50 characters, and then (!) rebooting the phone so that music player would notice the name change, also doesn't help.
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Problems with H96 Max TV box

mikedt
ForeverNoob said:
Yes, a couple of times.
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And that didn't fix the second problem? Could be the firmware has somehow got messed-up. Or maybe it's buggy. Which means it would need re-flashing and possibly updating to fix it. Maybe enquire with the manufacturer support and see what they say.

As for the first problem with it shutting down instead of showing the screen-saver, that sounds like a firmware bug or something. Which would need a manufacturer firmware update to fix it.

Is there a support website for this device?
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