On a related tangent, since the subject of scams came up, I have recently found a very effective way of dealing with the charity spam calls that we get at the house which are not covered by the "do-not-call list".
I tell them i am interested in their cause and ask them to send me something in the mail. Nine times out of 10 they absolutely will not do it and I suspect it is because of the case that can be made against them for mail fraud. When they say they won't send me anything in the mail I tell them it will save them time and money to not call me again becaue I absolutely will not give out personal information on the phone. I never hear from those again. For those that take me up on it I give them my work address and it gets toosed in the recycler with all the other junk we recieve at work.
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