If you outlawed Robocalls, how would you ever know when the extended warranty on your car is close to expiring??
Its not just landlines. I’m flooded with them on my cell. At least with that phone I can install apps that block a lot of it (but not all).
Wireline?
Do you mean you got a Landline?
If I don’t recognize the number, I never answer. If the caller has some legitimate business with me, they’ll leave a message.
My voicemail message states this.
It could easily be outlawed but then the GOP couldn’t call you asking for donations.
Both parties blocked this from happening.
Most people I know don't answer their phones any more, including me.
These calls are such a very big nuisance. They could regulate them and get rid of them since most of them occur over VoIP you would then make the VoIP company responsible for people who are Robo calling. We need to have a class action suit against all the Internet VoIP providers.
These calls now spoof other peoples phone numbers so it comes up with the name and number of somebody unrelated but generally in your same area code.
Landline? Good grief. Get a mobile phone. You will still receive some robo calls but they are easy to block.
There is the do not call list. If you tell not to call and they call again, in theory they have to pay a fine. The real problem is with ip phones, the calling endpoints can be changed very easily. Any one can register a local number within a minute and make calls. An overseas company (scammers or legit), can call and the odds of any action taken against them is nill. With the ease of them changing numbers or buying a whole bunch of different numbers, blocking them does work well.
Consider also that your number was recycled from someone else. If the former owner was on lots of junk lists, you will get those calls.
Apple spam buster sends everyone not in my contact list to phone mail silently in the background it never rings or dings or anything. 🤪
Those turds can ring me all the want knock yourselves out 🤣
Hi.
We have decided to answer all of the scam/robo calls with this script:
Brandon’s Body shop. Hello?
Cuts dowm on 40% of the scam calls.
5.56mm
I have a public number and private numbers. The public number is ignored when it rings. On 99% of legitimate calls to it, a voice mail is left. Robo junk callers almost never do.
I would say get rid of the landline and use your cellphone only.
You still get junk calls but there are software tools you can use to minimize them. Additionally, there area couple of other capabilities:
1) you can block numbers that were junk calls.
2) if you get a call from a number you don’t recognize, you can just hit the hangup button and don’t have to tolerate the warranty spam. Just dump it to voicemail
3) most phone networks have an ability to transcribe voicemails to text so you can look at the message rather than having to listen to it. (On t mobile it’s called “visual voicemail”. Don’t know about other carriers)
I dumped my home phone a few years ago and never, ever regretted it.
get caller id...
I got rid of Spectrum cable and the phone a couple of weeks ago, after my youngest son came to stay with me. He had asked if I could add the NFL Red Zone to my channels. I figured it would be something easy to do, but I ended up having to speak to three different people who couldn't help me, but would have to transfer me to the sales department to complete the order. I was on the phone for a total of 3 hours. The last time, for 45 minutes, waiting for sales. I finally hung up, unplugged my DVR and 2nd cable box, and drove over to the Spectrum office, and turned everything in. And just last week, I had to call Spectrum again, because the doofus at the store never actually turned my cable or phone service off, although he documented that I had turned the equipment in. Thankfully I had an email from Spectrum that showed my change of service, to just internet, for that date, and my bill was corrected. F-ing morons.
We have cell phones for 99.99% of our calls. We run our landline into our Fax machine and set it to answer all calls and the ringer is mute but the caller ID flashes on the TV screen because the Fax machine is on the network. Our family members have the landline number and nobody else. We can turn off the fax machine in emergencies receive calls normally.
The robo callers usually use machines that detect a response from a human answering in response to a “Hello”, then connect to the call to the spammer. That’s why they typically don’t leave voice messages.
I installed FreePBX and created three lists. The whitelist rings the phone unencumbered. The yellowlist answers the call but does not ring the phone - it is used for numbers that have not yet been assigned to the whitelist or blacklist. It allows them to leave a message and possibly be promoted to the whitelist assuming I spend the time to look at yellowlist messages. The blacklist doesn’t even answer the call and the phone doesn’t ring - the call is redirected to /dev/null. When I call a number, it’s added to the whitelist. It takes some fiddling but 99.999% of the spam calls are eliminated.