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| City: | Smethwick |
| State: | Great Britain |
| Latitude: | 52.4969900 |
| Longitude: | -1.9730500 |
| Population: | 12,842 |
| Smethwick (/ˈsmɛðɨk/) - formerly a county borough in the county of Staffordshire – is a Black Country town now located within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough 4 miles west of Birmingham city centre, in the West Midlands of England. It borders the fellow Sandwell towns of West Bromwich and Oldbury to north and west. Smethwick is situated near the edge of the metropolitan borough, it borders the city of Birmingham districts of Handsworth, Winson Green, Harborne, Edgbaston and Quinton to the south and east. Wikipedia » | |
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| Latest rating: | Mar 06, 2017 Add comment |
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The service was created in 2011 in the Czech Republic. It is an online forum where the users can share their experience with phone numbers, both annoying (mostly telemarketing, surveys) and useful (e.g. couriers, offices)..
Since the beginning, the service has been received very well, which led to localization into more languages. Nowadays, the forum exists in more than 20 languages and 34 countries throughout the world.
The service is intended for anyone who wants to identify the owner of an unknown phone number. The creators of the forum have also recently created the mobile app Call Insider for Android phones. This app, which is connected to the database of the website number-lookup.co.uk, also allows users to automatically block telemarketing numbers.
Scammers are posing as police officers to try and dupe people into handing over financial information. Phone calls even appear to come from a local police station, say officers from Camden Police Area Command in NSW, which is a warning the public to beware of the new tactics.
Mobile spam calls have been a nuisance for years. I get between four and six robocalls daily, and a quick survey of friends shows that I’m not alone. Every waking day brings with it a new barrage. Robocallers have upped their game by masking their spam with local, genuine-looking phone numbers. Sometimes their…
Received 2 calls in the last week, never leave a message, don't know who this is.
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