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??
I get one that says, “...are four serious charges
against you, call XXX XXX XXXX immediately.
Hahahahaha.
Our landline house phone rings 10-20 times most days, and our vocal caller ID almost always announces a city and state where the call supposedly originates. We only pick up recognized calls and 9 of 10 of the others do not leave a message. Junk calls- pure and simple. The few times we do pick up, the call labeled “Edison, New Jersey” results in a taped warning about our indoor air quality or someone in Bangladesh (or another English as a second language location) telling us they want to fix our computer.
I recall some witty FReepers describing their conversations with such callers, having fun wasting their time, but I just am not quick-thinking enough to do that well.
Not that rare for me...but I've found that the recorded junk calls on the cell can be thwarted if you connect but say nothing for about five seconds. If a person is there they'll usually give a tentative "hello", but the recorded robocalls take the silence after connecting as an answering machine and hang up.
As far as the Do Not Call list goes, I reported a number of repeated callers whom I had told not to call because I am on the list. But there is no way to follow up to see what, if any action was taken. I suspect the DNC list is an employment program for the otherwise unemployable relatives of the "connected".
me too - last few days a barrage of them. I put them on speaker and do my best Charlie Chan.
blocked the numbers on my iphone
I just got a voicemail one today. Online, it says the listed number is the local Chinese embassy—so probably spoofed.
I still have a landline, including an old dial-up phone in the garage.
If you take its phone off the hook and unplug the jack from the receiver it will not ring anywhere in the house.
I have had to use it when I was tired and needed a serious nap without interruptions.
You mean it wasn’t ELIZABETH in a perky voice saying you had stayed at one of her companies resorts and they had a special rate for you? This bi8tch aggravates the hell out of me and my areas phones. They even spoofed the Commonwealth’s Attorneys office for our county.
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After receiving a dozen unsolicited calls a day for years, I have had exactly one call get through in the last six months.
thanks so much
we only have cells no landline. it’s on my cell. I’ve been blocking calls, but that seems to make it worse, frankly.
Get a whistle and when they call blow it.....eventually they take you off the list.
Yes, great idea. I did that before, once, when I was teaching and had a playground whistle. It stopped things cold.
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