An FBI that doesn’t prosecute crooks like Comey won’t bother with small fry like phone spammers. Caveat emptor.
onyx wrote: IMPORTANT y’all record the scammer’s telephone number!
Innovative wrote: Report it to the SSA. I think they have a place on their website where you can report these fraudulent calls and maybe they will go and investigate.
You guys don’t understand. The number that shows on your phone isn’t their number. They use VOIP that allows them to spoof any number they want. There are reports of people even receiving these calls that come from their own number.
Blocking the number is useless. They just switch the number they’re spoofing. The only thing I’ve found to work is to put your phone in Do Not Disturb. Then allow exceptions from your contacts list. IOW, any call from your contacts will go through. All other calls go to voice mail. You do need to make sure you’ve updated your contacts list. Once I started this, my spam calls have dropped from 6-8 a day to 1 or 2 per week. These guys don’t have time to mess with voice mail so they hang up.
The phone numbers you see displayed by the scammers are false ones usually belonging to innocent and unrelated third parties.
Plus, the FBI doesn’t care at all about things that are problems for regular people. They are ass-covering bureaucrats mixed in with genuine traitors, and will be no help to a nonimportant citizen.