Posted on 06/06/2022 5:12:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble
I recently discontinued cable TV, which also provided phone service.
I decided to get a wireline service, mostly because it works when the power goes off.
Problem: 99% of the calls are robocalls.
I looked into how to stop this, which (according to the internet) is expensive, difficult, and something about which the FCC and the rest of the State is powerless.
This seems absurd to me. Why can't this practice be outlawed, and its practitioners be executed?
I don't know who you have your cell phone service through, but I've always used Verizon. When I had a regular 3G cell phone, I always had four bars in my apartment. I bought a cheap iPhone about 8 years ago, and could only get one or two bars at home. I finally got tired of calls being dropped, and called Verizon to complain. Because I've been a customer with them for so long, they sent me a network booster for free. They usually cost $250...at least that was the cost of them at that time. I've had four bars since I've had it. My oldest son said the problem with smartphones is that they use up too much space for memory, and don't have very big antennas in them. That's why reception can be so crappy.
Same thing happened to me recently and I can’t remember what I did to trigger it. I’m getting IRS scam calls and obvious text message spam. If I don’t recognize the phone number I never pick up, except for when I’m waiting for an important call and the number looks legit.
That still doesn’t work and I inevitably hear after answering, “your car’s extended warranty, blah, blah, blah”.
They spoof phone numbers close to yours and they were using my sons # and I answered. There was a real person trying to sell me something and I cut him and told I was turning them into the FBI, Police, etc stealing my sons #. Got a few more calls and it stopped. Then my son was getting them with my caller ID and I told him to say the same thing.
We are in New Hampshire, a beautiful state but the cows sometimes block the cell signals.
Sounds like we’ve got some good guys on our side...
“I’ve had my number since 1987.”
I’ve had my landline number sine 1977. I have been getting four or five spam calls every day, 9am - 6pm, for the last twenty years. Life is full of disturbances: mosquitos, spam calls, parking tickets and slow drivers on cell phones.
More scammers should be the victims instead of the poor slobs who fall for it. I’m not much into computer technology, but I did work 25 years in uniform in New York State’s prison system, so I don’t trust anyone or anything. Been retired for 20 years, but still have a heightened sense of security. I question everything. Today I had my yearly appointment with my Urologist. The person who checked me in started asking me all these questions, like who my cell phone provider is. I asked him why that information was needed. He said in case we have to hold a tele-med call with you. I told him that wasn’t necessary, because I’d never do a tele-med call. I had to actually sign my name to decline it. I go there once a year. I don’t need their patient portal, or their freaking tele-med crap.
Never been to New Hampshire. Been to Maine and Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. I live in Central NY State. How many cows does it take to block a cell phone signal?? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
“Why can’t this practice be outlawed, and its practitioners be executed?“
And you be the first to complain when your car breaks down and you realize you passed on the chance for the extended car warranty .
When I do answer, I make weird clicking sounds.
It works for me on political texts.
I do nothing on spam texts but delete them.
yup, 100% gold...
“More scammers should be the victims ...”
Yep. Guys like this Trilogy team are DEFINITELY making it happen. They even hacked an online Group that was a hive for scammers, and scored the Member list— Group membership plummeted from over 55,000 so fast the “Members” counter on the web page was rolling backward in real time.
Thanks for the link.
It’s Verizon, but I have a new phone.
It’s the location.
Most of where we live here in rural NH has crap reception. Same for VT. We don’t get reliable cell service until we’re back in NYS.
They also don’t need to know your cell phone carrier.
How you connect for a telemed appointment is not important for them to know.
That seems to be just why is happening! Except they likely do not need to buy it, and few are prosecuted for abuse.
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