Re: [OT] Bell Canada - service vs. abuse

On 2025-05-22 7:24 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-05-22 4:50 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
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My brother had always been in charge of paying the internet but he had a
fatal car crash back in February and I hadn't quite got around to
getting the bills re-organized. . . .

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I don't recall if I said something at the time you first mentioned the
death of your brother, but I'm very sorry to hear this. Best wishes to
you and your family.
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Thank you! Actually, this is the first time I've mentioned it on the
newsgroup.
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In the other followup, I should have commented on the need to keep any
of your brother's phone numbers active, if that's still possible, or his
email addresses. We all identify ourselves with phone numbers and email
addresses on accounts we hold, making it super easy for someone who
learns of an old phone number or email address to commit fraud. To get
an account changed or re-established, the fraudster just needs one piece
of identifying information.
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Actually, I let his cell number lapse a few weeks back. I couldn't see
any point in keeping it alive.

 I thought about keeping Mom‘s number when I sold her house, but she’d been
gone several years at that point and she outlived most of her friends so I
decided nobody would be trying to contact me that way.  I did keep my
business line, but let my fax number go away.
 

My brother really kept to himself. I personally told the three people he was close to about the accident the day it happened. I have no idea how to reach any of the other people that might conceivably want to know, like friends he hadn't seen in years or didn't much like any more. He had no address book that I've been able to find, just the one in his phone which basically just had me and his boss in it - and she knew about his accident before anyone since it happened at work.
He was keeping in touch with a bunch of people on Linked-in but I think they were all grifters trying to lure him into romance scams.

I did my business with Bell this morning

without any difficulty. I still know what the number was when people ask
as I change over other services.
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Since I subrscribe to VoIP.ms, based in Montreal, it's super cheap to
hold phone numbers. I have a six-line SIP conference phone plus a
business line on an ATA that does SIP and now, a fax line. I spend $75
to $100 a year but I have to provide the separate broadband connection.
Plus I've got a two-line ATA that I use for two Google voice lines, each
for a separate small nonprofit. There's the cable phone line and two
cell phones.
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If I were keeping old phone numbers, I'd port them to a VoIP service.

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Rhino