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ROBO SPAM AND ROBO SCAMS

    This was printed in an on-line paper police report :
A resident reported she received a phone message that her grandson was arrested in NJ and needed bail money. Resident hung up on caller. Grandson was not arrested. Please be aware of these scams.

   A Better Idea   Instead of being "aware of these scams" why is there not an immediate button combination you can push when you have a spam caller or a scam caller. Ie: push *333 if it appears to be spam or *444 if you suspect a scam - that number would go to the police and the phone company, who - as soon as they got 3 of these notices - would be on the case. The phone company makes a fortune accommodating these callers - but spends none of that profit trying to prevent them. It is time for our legislators to change that dynamic and pursue the criminals rather than allowing them to impact so many lives.

Who is interested in pursuing this ?
           Contact lel@abingtoncitizens.com

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use, to make it functional and accessible.

We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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