I put my phone on the "do not call" list, but I still get a large number of unwanted robo and sales calls.
Yay!
Just like Spam....Go for it.
FWIW I use Youmail for voicemail transcription and it has a pretty good spam blocker feature.
Several times a day my phone will ring a few times and then I will get a “Scam Likely” notification.
But the FCC says many voice providers have held off on developing call blocking tools because it was unclear whether those tools were legal under FCC rules.
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The lack of clarity was probably on purpose.
This won’t work.
Scenario: you do business with a company. They have several phone lines. They call you back from a number that you were not aware they had. The call is blocked. Stupid. Dense. Moronic.
Scenario:
Your child is out with friends and needs assistance, and calls you from a friend’s phone, a store’s phone, or some other phone that you don’t know.
Also, the telemarketers use fake numbers, one of which CAN be from a number on your “white list.”
Blocking numbers by default is not the solution.
Innovative wrote: “I put my phone on the “do not call” list, but I still get a large number of unwanted robo and sales calls.”
Put your phone on “Do Not Disturb” which sends all calls/texts/notifications from any source to voice mail. Then, select “Contacts” under exceptions. Any text/call/notification from a contact will be allowed to go through immediately. All others go to voice mail.
I’ve cut my robocalls to nothing using this.
Trump can easily win reelection by going clearly against robo calls and any other spam calls. Plus he can go after scams by phone. There are lots of them. And he should go after viruses as well. He should be very vocal about going after anyone who tries to attack old people with misleading calls.
He should also go after cable companies and phone companies that change rates constantly on old people. Old people have a very hard time getting the rates they were promised.
Please God, let it be so
I put my phone on the “do not call” list, but I still get a large number of unwanted robo and sales calls.
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The Spammers have hundreds of phones and very likely different names for each. It’s impossibke to totally block them,
I gave up, stopped answering the land line and turned it off. Keeping for 911 calls only. So now our calls all come in/out via cell phone.
People already do this, because many of the phones have the tools built in.
Make your generic Ringtone silent, and assign a different Ringtone to people in your contact list.
Review your voicemail now and then, and add callers you want to your contact lists.
This is part of why no polls (even if you want them to be true) are either scientific or accurate anymore. Entire demographics refuse to participate.
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I know it’s like calling terror-HOPE THEY DO IT!!!
Why can’t they just make it illega for anyone to make unsolicited phone calls to sell something?
I pay for my phones because they are useful to me. Not so they can be useful to people trying to sell me crap I don’t want and didn’t ask for.
I am of the opinion that no call should be completed if the advertised number (what you see on the caller ID) does not match the number of origin (actual number). In other words, prevent call spoofing.
I started getting spoofed calls from my own phone number. I recorded a new voicemail greeting that started with the SIT code for disconnected number. I let all calls I don’t recognize go to voicemail. Within a week, I stopped getting robocalls. https://www.thisisarecording.com/signaling.html
This will just be a service you pay for, basically a racket.
Sorta like they would charge for caller ID and also charge the calling party to hide their number.
Do the STIR/SHAKEN calls have to be BONDed?
Can anyone offer advice on how best to thwart/cost/punish these a$$h01es?
Is it: a. Ignore
b. Answer and immediately hang up
c. Answer and leave phonecall open
Which will do the most to cost/punish them? I REALLY want to punish them.