Posted on 03/05/2025 5:44:39 PM PST by Dad was my hero
To become wealthier than ANYone invent a way to electrocute spammers and hackers.
-fJRoberts-
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I generally don’t answer the calls and then block them. But I’ve been getting 4-5 calls per day on my cellphone, and so has my wife. We have a land line and get calls on there too. I block the numbers but that doesn’t really work because they same people are calling me from area codes all around the country. I was getting lots of calls with recorded messages from “Morgan” offering me a loan. So I called the number and asked for her. The guy who answered paused a second and then chuckled and said, “oh, yeah, well she is our...” and I interrupted him and told him that I knew about “Morgan” and really went off on him. I probably ruined his day, but I didn’t feel too bad about doing that to the kind of sorry soul who has to make his living like this. The calls from “Morgan” stopped.
I will look for it. Thx.
Settings | Phone | Silence Unknown Callers
There’s another variation under text messages but that comes with a caveat - I’ve gotten burned on dining reservations and things like account verification because I turned off alerts for unknown messages and then never realized it was there! :D
I would say "Not Hay-soos....I'm talking about the Lord of All"
as best as I can tell is that the numbers are spoofed, randomly generated and quite possibly someone’s real number. I’ve been on the receiving end of what you said you did about Morgan. I answered the phone more than once and someone asking what it was I wanted saying I had called them. I told them I did not and went on to tell them about spoofing the number. My sister once told me that she rec’d a call on her cell that WAS FROM her own number! She was so intrigued that somehow she was calling herself that she answered it.
Yes, I will sometimes do this, too (tie them up). I do always ask why would they need to know about whether I have medicare or supplement coverage. Since they have said they are with the medicare provider, they would know, right? I try to talk them in circles sometimes. Can be fun for a few minutes.
A sports whistle in their ear
I have had a call from my own number too. But the number I dialed for “Morgan” actually went to the company she represented.
What is disconcerting is that whenever I call them, they answer the phone and call me by my first name — “hello, X?” —without my ever telling them.
This is one time when it pays to be a Luddite: we use an answering machine with our land line. No problems whatsoever.
Your homepage says you are from Pennsylvania and now live in Florida, get a cell phone from a different state, most of the junk calls will come from that area code which lets you know they have nothing to do with you.
Don’t answer them.
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Only 3? You’re lucky. I get at least 10-12 down from about 25-27 per day a few months ago. Fortunately, I do not live in the area code I did when I got my phone number and I do not know anyone in that old area code so when a call shows up as from that area code, I know its a spam call.
Unless I get a call from the local area code, I simply do not answer calls from anybody I don’t know. If they don’t leave a message, I block them.
brilliant ...
With my cell phone, I will never answer a call unless I know who's calling. That's actually easy to do. I simply add to my contacts people I want to hear from, so their name will pop up when they call.
If it's an unknown caller, it goes straight to voice mail.
If the voice mail is somebody I want to hear from in the future, I will add that person to my contact list and call them back.
Wait. You haven’t received your new plastic Medicare card yet?
They have spoofed me with my own number 3 times before. I generally don’t answer the phone, Plus I know all my contacts numbers. I answer those.
“I never answer the phone”
I’m just trying to contact you about a business matter!
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