Re: Identity Theft
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23 Dec 2021, 00:19 by curty@free.fr:
> On 2021-12-21, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> That is a known thing (a telephone intercept of a cell phone call), I have
>> found nothing so far about such a thing happening with a VOIP phone or land
>> line.
>>
>
> It's a known thing to dial one number and reach another? Can you provide
> a link? What do you mean by intercept?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triggerfish_(surveillance)
> Any number of others.
> In any case, I doubt enormously
> that anything of the kind happened to me; when I successfully contacted
> my party in the US via an 877 number, I was told there was a snafu
> concerning their direct line, a *general* one affecting many customers
> (who all heard the Englishwoman's recorded voice), as if we might still
> be in the days of telephone exchanges and manual service and some
> operator was plugging the ringing cord into an erroneously labelled jack
> (so instead of connecting people to Major Financial Institution
> Department 22 people were connected to Bristol Furniture and Storage).
>
Yes, there's a cross-connection somewhere.
Whether that is hard-wired or wireless is immaterial.
It could be brought about by something as innocuous as a short, somewhere.
Cheers!
Harry
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