Posted on 01/21/2023 5:30:06 AM PST by owainG31
It seems to increase the # of calls, maybe by providing scammers with a list!
Do you have a landline of smartphone?
I formerly used a call blocker unit ... that got nuked by the lightning strike as well. When we bought the new phone with the SCB, I was still thinking I’d have to buy another additional call blocker unit (Digitone) and I was more than pleasantly surprised at how effective SCB was.
I don’t think people realize (I didn’t) how many of the calls, virtually 100%, are dialed by computer ... robo calls. SCB answers & with no # forthcoming from the computer, the call gets a hang up AND your phone DOES NOT RING! It’s pretty wonderful, actually. I highly recommend the Smart Call Blocker system - just push a couple of buttons on the ‘menu’ to set it up. You’ll probably have numbers in the ‘phone book’ on the phone ... those automatically get through. You also have an “allowed” list that can get through, too. Any REAL person just has to press # ... you can set it up where they have an extra step to pressing # & that is to give their name, which is then announced when the call goes through. We don’t do the extra step & have had no issues ... rarely (couple times a year tops), someone we don’t want to talk to presses # and we just let them go to the answering machine.
Yikes! That's more than a car payment. A car payment for a luxury car at that.
I have no landlines and no cable TV. Nor any streaming services except what comes with Amazon Prime. I can get pretty much any content I want with high speed Internet and a Roku box. I also have a mobile phone with unlimited data. Total is around $250/mo.
If you have a desktop and install a cheap modem and use a splitter to plug in LL phone line to it, and install Phone free 1.39 (I have it) then you can set it to zap and not notify you of spam calls. Plus it can keep a record of all incoming calls. One reason i use Windows, thank God.
Verizon is my carrier, and I use their call filter. I have it set so that the only calls that ring, are those in my contacts. It blocks most other calls, and it silences questionable calls, which I then go in and block manually. I finally got rid of my Spectrum land line earlier this year. Despite using their call filters via my online account page, I’d get nothing but spam calls. Had turned off the ringer a few years prior as all I got was spam calls on it. I’d kept it because I figured my monthly bill would be cheaper because I also had internet and cable from them. When I cancelled their cable and the home phone in May, the representative told me that had I cancelled my phone service, my bill would have actually gone down. When Spectrum took over Time Warner, their customer service went to hell.
I stopped the phone scammers and spammers dead in their tracks.
I do not have a phone, neither land line nor cell.
I answer the phone and don’t say anything. I then set my phone aside without hanging up. Sometimes I forget all about it for hours before finally hanging up. Since doing this, my spam calls have been reduced by quite a lot. I have no idea why this has worked for me. It was suggested to me by a friend.
You COULDN’T care less. Could care less means exactly that.
PS: just don’t answer numbers you don’t recognize.
I registered with the Federal “Do Not Call” registry very early in its inception. Not only did it not stop the volume of spam calls, their number increased exponentially. I had to wonder if some Federal employees were not on the take to actually give your name (and thousands of others’ names) and number to the spam call centers for a nice fat bribe.
All your stated points are very true.
I never answer a call from an unknown number.
I have a friend that enjoys blowing an harmonica into the ears of telemarketers. It drives his dog crazy but I think it’s worthwhile.
Thank you!
“I COULD care less is so annoying.”
What would be funny is if they synced the tones and you would send them an annoying fax. Not sure what it would say. But something like sign this and I will talk to you for $10 a minute. Payable immediately at @paymetotalk
You’re getting so many because you keep answering them.
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