Posted on 08/08/2017 10:50:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I don’t answer if I don’t recognize the number. No exceptions. If you leave a message I might call you back if I feel like it. The spammers never leave a message (except for the IRS scammers - they would claim to be IRS and leave an international call-back number).
I have 2 call screeners on my phone. Mr Number and Call Protect from ATT. They catch almost everything and the ones that Call Protect catch as fraud or scam it doesn’t even let them come through.
Anything that actually makes it through and isn’t flagged my phone announces ‘unknown caller’ so I don’t even have to look at it. And then I manually block them. Lol
I had my phone spoofed 3 years ago...I received a call from someone claiming I had called them...They had almost the same number as me. They wanted the other person’s credit card number...
Call did not show up on my phone. The person with similar number to mine and I both called the FCC and phone company as well as the police...As no money lost, nothing police could do. They did tell e there was a lot of it coming from overseas, so difficult to prosecute... FCC wrote up a complaint—that was the extent of it...Phone company did issue me a new number, and I pressed to get activation fees waived.
Since then I have been very reluctant to provide my cell number to anyone but my friends and family.
Sad that now telemarketers are using the same approach. Should not be legal!!
Att has an app that does the same. It actually blocks those calls from coming through.
I’m right behind you. 140 blocked. My att app blocks a bunch of them automatically. What they miss I block.
If the “Out of Area” “Unknown” or “Unavailable” families had a reunion, they could pack the biggest national park.
I don’t know any of them and we don’t pick up for any of the states, either.
Because we live in the sticks, we use our ATT data plan for all internet access via a myfi hotspot. It was assigned a phone number, but it’s only a technicality since it is not a phone and can not send or receive calls.
Well, that thing failed, but I had an old LG G3 phone that I thought would work, so I slipped th sim card in and it is now what we use even for streaming movies on our big screen.
The funny part is I’ve missed over 70 phone calls on it. :)
the ONLY thing that will work is to find their physical location and kick some @$$!
And yet, if they were not generating income for their employers, selling stuff, they'd have ceased to exist.
I can't do that, as I sometimes get calls or emails from people whom I have not yet met, referred to me by previous clients. I have to scan the spam list too, in case some did go there.
Robocalls (some, not all) can be spoofed by picking up the phone and staying silent for 5-10 seconds. A human will usually say "hello' or something; most robos will just go beep-beep-beep and hang up.
My personal type of audio torture would be jazz. Musical equivalent to Tourette’s Syndrome.
I like to sing hymns. Freaks ‘em out.
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