This explains it. Explains why 19 of 20 junk/robocalls I get on my cell phone are from my same area code and prefix.
(210-316-XXXX)
I’d block my number in a heartbeat if it started calling me.
I have started blocking any numbers I don’t know.
Just as I popped this up, my phone started ringing. I ignored it.
Probably some goofball from India telling me they checked my computer and Microsoft told them it needs service.
The best is the credit companies offering to get my interest rate down and help me with my credit card debt.
I have zero debt other than my house, which I’m in the refinance process to reduce that debt as well.
I pretty much don’t answer my phone, period, if the message is important enough, they’ll leave a message (and they rarely do).
If the tech is so simple to find/use to make these SCAM/fraudulent calls - then it is equally possible that telecommunications companies could implement protections AGAINST said technology.
And since they apparently are doing NOTHING to prevent this abuse - I hold the telecommunications companies EQUALLY at fault as co-conspirators.
All the scam calls lately use my phone’s prefix, so I know it is bogus. They’re only hurting their elicit cause.
Depending on my mood I deploy different tactics, including wasting their time.
Seriously though...I’ve had several calls from my area code that were shams. A couple weeks back I answered a call and a woman launched into a sales spiel. I asked where she was calling from. She said “Utah”. I asked her why she would think I’d trust her if she was using shady illegal telephone tactics to call me.
“Click”...she hung up.
I pretty much don’t answer anymore if I don’t recognize the number. If it’s important...they’ll leave a message.
Same here.....I received a number of them in sequence. Example: xxx-xxx-xx12, xx13, xx14......
Yeah ..... been getting those. Didn’t take more than a few times before I ignored them.
Hey whatever happened to “DO NOT CALL LIST”. Sometime in the middle of zer0’s regime it just seemed to fall apart.
If it's somebody who needs to talk to me but isn't in my contacts, they can always leave a voice message and I'll call back.
I was getting calls that showed strange area codes that I could not block thru our provider (Charter Spectrum). I called them to complain and they had me sign up at http://www.nomorobo.com/ for free. It helped alot, but I still get the spoofed local numbers.
We noticed this a few months ago. I don’t bother answering the phone any more unless there is a name attached to it. If it’s important, they’ll leave a message.
I have been getting more than one of those calls every day. Most of the time I don’t bother to answer. If I do, the best trick I have found is to say with my best DJ voice, “Hello, you’re on the air!” At least half of them hang up immediately, thinking they have called a radio station or talk show.
We no longer answer the phone unless we know the name. Most landline calls are scammers or politicians.
Virginia holds state elections in the off years. PITA.
I specifically don’t answer it for that exact reason. There’s only one other person that I know with the same area code and prefix as my cell, and that’s my wife’s cell phone.
Telemarketers are cancer!
I get these calls frequently.
Last night it was the local police wanting a donation.
Let these unknown but friendly looking numbers leave a message, before answering any call. These companies are BUYING LOCAL NUMBERS.
No message left from them means they are robo calls or totally unimportant.
We are getting hundreds per month. On our land line their is never a message left by these yahoos, but the numbers reappear without ceasing. Ya’ know they are robo calls.
Even local calls with no area code and appearing to be your own neighborhood, but never a message. They are buying numbers and betting on your curiosity to pick up the call.
Those who do pick up keep themselves on the call wheels.