Another one is the group that calls up and wants you to contact them because your Microsoft 10 license has expired. What??
I’m an ex-sports official and about the second or third time I get the call, and after cradling them the first two or three, and they are stupid enough to use a human to do it, they get a blast of my Acme Thunderer whistle before I hang up. Do that a few times, and it will limit their calls to computer ones that I don’t deal with anyway.
These swindle companies use fake ID’s so it is almost impossible to block every number they can use. According to the Federal Trade Commission, FTC, one scammer actually used the phone number of an FTC employee.
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2016/05/scammers-can-fake-caller-id-info
You couldn’t possibly block all the numbers in the world one at a time. And they are relentless. So here’s a possibility:
1. Navigate to Settings -> Do Not Disturb.
2. Toggle Manual ON (green slider) to enable Do Not Disturb (DND), or schedule a time for DND to automatically switch on.
3. Tap Allow Calls From.
4. Select All your wished Contacts.
This will cut off all the possible contacts except the ones you selected. But you may be stopping someone you might want from calling you by this. It works, but maybe too well.
rwood
What device is this for?
FWIW, I made a “ringtone” that was one second of nothing, and I’ve made that the default ringtone. Anybody in my phone’s phone book gets a real ringtone.
So any time somebody calls me the first time, I never hear it and it goes to voice mail. If they become somebody I want to talk to, I put them in my phone’s phone book and they get a real ringtone.
That’s too much work.
Instead treat it as a gift and a chance to be creative.
Ehh? Hold on, sonny, let me get my hearing aid....
Ehh, what’s your name again?
Oh yeah, didn’t we meet down at the Five and Dime a few years ago?
Oh yeah, but it’s in the shop now. Funny thing is, the Ford dealer said they needed to replace the window computer. (Lot’s of chances to develop a story thread about cars here).
That reminds me of when my son James, you remember him, right? (Insert funny child story here.)
Always have an inane or illogical question, and be hard of hearing, and seem stupid but compliant. Yet yield no real information. My record was wasting 35 minutes of their time, all the while reading Free Republic.
Finally, they will either just hang up, or more likely very politely beg off.