Posted on 11/11/2017 6:14:57 AM PST by SandRat
Despite getting caller I.D., and signing up and using nomorobo.com to stop robo calls, they continue.
Their latest trick is to grab a local number so that the local number and name shows up on the I.D., but it is really the scammers. As quickly as we enter their number into nomorobo, they change the phone # and call again.
Your suggestions would work. They really can put a stop to it if they wanted to. But their donor-owners don’t want it to stop.
Because the overwhelming majority of them operate from OUTSIDE our borders and as the laws for "telemarketing" are written today, the Telco's can't shut them down.
Congress needs to act to fix that ... (wait, I need to stop laughing after typing that ..............................................................................................)
Or better yet you should familiarize yourself with the technologies that are out there that can help you protect yourself and your landline. There are options available, some of them FREE.
For example, porting your phone# over to Google or one of the other VOIP services comes with free Telemarketer blocking service.
A friend of mine uses ViaTalk which is less than $8/mo for his home phone service and swears by it. I checked into it but opted to just cancel my home phone/landline and return the number back to AT&T.
This past March I was at my desk when the phone rang and it was my own phone number. My phone was calling itself. :-)
Oh these calls come in multiple times a day.
Now their spoofing local area code and exchanges. Last one was actually spoofing a VOIP number!
It is very bad and something should be done to stop it. I can’t believe it is that lucrative that criminals keep using this method?
Guaranteed to work and fun to watch, IMO.
Just like spam ruined email, these robo calls are ruining voice comms.
I no longer answer the phone if it only shows a phone number. If it is important they will leave a message. Robo calls hang up when they get the answer machine.
Sometimes I pick up the phone and if it’s a telemarketer I pretend that we have a bad connection and I skip words. I am.....it’s good....we have a bad......can you repeat..... Then they call back and I don’t answer.
I get these everyday on both my phones. I’m shocked that the the service providers and government has let this get so bad. It’s worse than ever. Email spam is also worse than ever.
What is worse for some of us...micro-business folks is these robocalls. The first inclination is to answer the business phone, but if it doesn’t say who is calling we’ve started letting it rollover the voicemail.
People wanting our service generally will leave a message, but I’ve had a few angry people because we didn’t answer right off the bat.
The worst one right now is the Google Verify. We’re verified already but they keep calling...and that one is a business scam.
I’m with you on this.
The only way to be sure is to nuke them from orbit!
I got a telemarketer so mad one time that after I hung up on him, he called me back!!! He was insulted!!! Yeah!!!
Count me out. If it weren’t for Debbie at Credit Card Services, I’d get no phone calls at all! And Kevin, with the heavy Pakistani accent who says he represents DirecTV, how will I ever know how his life is progressing?
And those caller IDs that give a phone number that appears to be local? Who knew Syracuse, NY, was local to Florida? How else to learn such little known geographical bits?
Thank you! Just went to Amazon and ordered one.
Email spam is also worse than ever.
calls from an editable list of 250 unique phone numbers
calls from a range of phone numbers
incoming calls starting with a specified string of digits
all calls from Wyoming (for example) by blocking the range starting with [Area code] 307 – that is, all calls from 307-xxx-xxxx
all calls from Warshington, DC by blocking the range starting with 202.
Through 285 days (so far today), we received 727 junk calls. That's 2.55 calls / day. 378 (52%) from unique numbers, 349 (48%) from repeat calls from those numbers.
Three numbers of > 20 calls each account for 71 calls.
Eight numbers of 10–19 calls each account for 93 calls.
13 numbers of 5–9 calls each account for 72 calls.
These 24 phone numbers account for 260 calls (35.8% of total calls).
We received 669 junk calls from 40 states, + 13 from DC + 25 from 8xx toll-free numbers, + five from outside USA + 15 from Private / Out of Area.
69.5% of all junk calls came from in-state numbers.
Some calls spoof local numbers, with messages targeted to wealthy Area codes & demographics – "Don't fall, geezer!"
“For example, porting your phone# over to Google”
My landline is ported over to Google. They are blocking a huge number of incoming calls, but I still get more than enough, mostly with spoofed local numbers.
So if I get a phone solicitor I like to play dumb, real dumb and start spouting off non-sequitars like “I like to ride in rental cars.” or “My mom makes great meatloaf ice cream...” you know, stupid crap like that...They end up hanging up and I get a chuckle.
Got a wrong number once that insisted on talking to Debbie...well I was standing at the Oregon State Fairgrounds at the moment and tried to explain that they were calling the wrong number. They insisted on talking to Debbie so....I went the Ruthless People routine and said Debbie couldn’t come to the phone...
Why they asked
Because Debbie has my.......in her mouth...
Well when she’s done could you have her call me?
I laughed and hung up...Evidently Debbie will have some explaining to do...
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