Posted on 04/17/2018 8:48:33 AM PDT by bboop
I have been getting marketing calls in Chinese for the last few weeks. Not recognizing the number, I answer it (I know, not good!). Get a tape in Chinese. Block the call on my iPhone. Blocking seems to have put me on a great deal more phone lists; the calls have proliferated - some are local numbers, some DC.
Feedback??
Marketers can now immitate the first six digits of your ten digit number. If I get a call from my area code and it is not attached to a contact, it is virtually always a telemarketer. I don’t answer.
If it turns out to be someone I know, they’ll leave a message.
I for one welcome our esteemed Chinese overlords and their telemarketing schemes.
I’ve been getting calls on my iPhone that appear to be a local cell phone number. I’ll block the number, then the next time they call, the last four digits of the number has changed. I’ll block that, and again the same thing, over and over. Yesterday I finally answered the damn thing, said Hello, and there was a dead line...no one answered back, and the line went dead. I hate these f***ers!
Just be glad it’s the Chinese rather than the Nigerian scammers who are calling you.
In my experience, the Chinese will go away after one refusal. But the Nigerians will keep calling back — until and unless you leave your phone off-hook for at least 30 minutes!
I block every single call like that if it doesn’t show up in my contacts and no message.
Do you have a family name that sounds Chinese? Like “Lee” for instance?
The trouble with a Chinese telemarketing calls...
You get one, hang up, and you’re craving another an hour later.
Solomon? haha. I should know better than to ever answer.
I've already submitted a Form 75 to the FCC and would be grateful if you could do the same.
On an Android download Truecaller. It blocks well.
>> said Hello, and there was a dead line...no one answered back <<
Usually this outcome means the scammers have computers that are programmed to dial dozens (or hundreds?) of numbers simultaneously.
Then, whoever answers first — even by a micro-second — will have the “privilege” of talking to a live person.
On the other hand, if you pick up your phone just a tiny bit later, the computers will drop you — plus everybody else who had been called during the current “cycle” — while the live person at scammer HQ works his charm on the unlucky first answerer.
I’ve never actually blocked a call. I just don’t answer.
BTW, Our MY-Fi router at home broke so I used an old LG G3 as our main internet router in our home (we’re in the sticks. AT&T data plan is all we have). Since the phone has the capacity to receive calls, it gets a LOT of solicitor calls. But the ringer and vibrator are both off, so meh.
BTW, we use it to stream hi-def Amazon prime TV and movies. We live in the future. :)
...And of course they are spoofing ANI so you’ll need the time and the number. Give them a good 12 seconds before you hang up to make sure the call gets billed and shows up on your local phone company’s records.
Drop the landline. That’s where I got most of my unsolicited phone calls, despite being on the Do Not Call registry. Now that I only use a cell phone I rarely get an unwanted call.
Okay, so bottom line - is my Peking duck lunch special going to be delivered or not?
Thank you Obama for supporting a w (Chinese) world government.
Thanks for the info.
We have a landline tied to a magic jack in the office of our home with the ringer off. It goes straight to voice mail. It’s nice because I don’t give my cell number to anyone but friends. Doesn’t stop the calls on my cell. I block every single one and they just keep coming.
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