List of Coronavirus Information Hotlines by State (Phone and Email Hotlines for COVID-19 Information)
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List of Coronavirus Information Hotlines by State (Phone and Email Hotlines for COVID-19 Information)

Many states have set up COVID-19 hotlines by phone and email to answer questions about the Coronavirus. Here is a list of those hotlines by state.

Full Searchable Text of Transcript of Call Between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky
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Full Searchable Text of Transcript of Call Between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky

Below is the full, searchable transcript of the telephone call between U.S. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky. The Internet Patrol makes no judgement nor offers any opinion about the content of the call. The Internet Patrol is simply making it available because we know how, and people are searching for it.

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Massive Comcast Phone Outage Across the Country for Second Day in a Row

A massive Comcast telephone outage is affecting businesses and homes alike across the United States for the second day in a row. States coast to coast are affected, including California, Washington state, New York, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, along with inland states like Colorado and Illinois. Major cities that are effected include Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Houston, Atlanta, Manhattan, and Philadelphia, along with many outlying cities in those areas.

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How to Change or Update Your Phone Number in Your eBay Account

Wouldn’t you think that it would be fairly straightforward to figure out how to change or update your phone number on eBay? eBay has been around long enough that when some people first opened their accounts they may even have had landlines (imagine that)! However, it’s not obvious how to update your telephone number on eBay, so here is how to change that phone number.

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FCC Publishing Weekly List of Telemarketer and Robocall Numbers

From the “we knew it was a good idea” department, based on the responses to our own article List of Phone Numbers that Telemarketers Use to Call You, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced this week that it will start publishing a list of telephone numbers which robocallers, robodialers, and telemarketers are using to make their telemarketing calls and robocalls.

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The Best Consumer Device for Secure Calls and Text Messaging

Wired’s Joseph Cox has a brilliant idea: what is the best, most readily available consumer device to use to make completely secure calls, and to use for secure text messages and secure chat? (Well, at least as secure and locked down as the average consumer can easily make them?) An iPod Touch! Brilliant! Here’s why.

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New Paypal Policy TOS Effective Today: We Will Robocall You – Plus List of Numbers from which Paypal Calls

Effective today, July 1, 2015, Paypal’s new User Agreement (Terms of Service) goes into effect. It contains lots of small changes, and one big one: You consent to receive autodialed or prerecorded calls and text messages from PayPal at any telephone number that you have provided us or that we have otherwise obtained. Which is why we’re putting together a list of Paypal numbers from which Paypal calls.

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New IRS Scam Coming from 710-201-2246

There is a new scam featuring the phone number 202-599-9670. So far, the call is coming from 710-201-2246.

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How to Get Rid of All those Extra Shipping Addresses in Paypal (and, Bonus: Telephone Numbers for Paypal)

One of the more frustrating things about Paypal is how seemingly impossible it is to delete old shipping addresses from your account. Recently Paypal has taken to requiring you to select a shipping address each and every time you send money, even if you are sending money for something that requires no shipping address, and the list of old shipping addresses can require you to have to page down through several screens to get to the last option, “No Shipping Required”. If you are one of the legion of people who has been searching all over the Paypal website, and all over the web, for an explanation of just how to delete old shipping addresses from Paypal, search no further! Here is the definitive answer.

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Facebook to Allow Sharing Your Address and Telephone Number with Third Parties

As if it isn’t bad enough that Facebook is sharing your private phone number with all of your Facebook friends, there has been quite a stir this week over the news that Facebook is moving forward with their plans to allow third parties to access your contact information, including your address and telephone number. While Facebook denies this in the press, Facebook themselves confirmed it in a formal letter to the U.S. legislature, signed by Facebook’s VP of Global Public Policy, Marne Levine.

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Massive Internet Outage in California No Accident Say Authorities

A massive Internet outage, loss of telephone service, and even 911 emergency service communications were the result of an intentional act of sabotage against five different fiber optic cables in the Silicon Valley Bay area of California today, according to authorities.