[MCN] Someone is using my phone number to make calls. I post this because others might face this problem

[Lance Olsen]

3 times, strangers have called to say they got a call from my phone number.  I didn’t need to ask what kind of calls before calling CenturyLink.

The 1st person I talked to said she wasn’t the right one to talk to, but would transfer my call to someone else. That person also said she was not the right one, but would transfer my call to someone who could fix the problem. But that person said there is nothing CenturyLink can do because it has no control of this problem

My apologies to any who got any such call from my number. But with CenturyLink unable to stop them, I’m at a loss for what to do beyond this note


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" 'Hopelessness' … is often derived from unfulfillable, rather than from merely unfulfilled, desires and wishes focused on impossible aims.  It diminishes with the development of capability to change aim. Its counterpart is not just 'hope' but enthusiasm and zest."

Barbara Betz, M.D.  
International Journal of Psychiatry.  May, 1968

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" ‘Triage’ is a dirty word in some conservation circles, but like many dirty words, it describes something common. Whether they admit it or not, conservationists have long had to make decisions about what to save.

"As more and more admit it, open discussion about how the decisions are best made — by concentrating on particular species, or particular places, or absolute costs, or any other criterion — becomes possible. Whichever criteria come into play, one thing remains constant. The decisions have to be made quickly."

Emma Marris, "What To Let Go.” NATURE November 8, 2007

https://www.nature.com/articles/450152a.pdf