<p><strong>To the editor:</strong></p>
<p>I agree with the suggestions on blocking unwanted calls ("Call-blocking system keeps scammers away," Aug. 11, column by James Johnson); however, these scammers have found a way to tie into good local numbers in your prefix area.</p>
<p>In the past month, we have received credit card scammers and the time share scammers (we don’t have a time share, but somehow they started calling from inactive numbers months ago) from local numbers of well-known businesses and organizations and residents.</p>
<p>We answer the phone because we think it might be a friend or family member who’s had car trouble in front of their business or home, and as always, their cellphones are dead.</p>
<p>There’s no way to determine how to block someone tying in to an existing active number. It’s very frustrating. Numbers outside our prefix are not answered unless I decide to play with the caller (very rarely).</p>
<p><p style="text-align: right"><strong>Vicki Garrett</strong></p>
<p><p style="text-align: right">New Whiteland</p>
