Posted on 12/25/2018 4:25:50 AM PST by sodpoodle
An oldie but a goodie. I love that bit.
That’s what I use too - an occasional one slips through but works for me...A lot of silence in the house after getting it.
Oh. Thanks!
1. Won't spam calls get through to your voicemail anyway?
2. It seems like an awful lot of maintenance if one has a large contacts list to set custom ring tones for those contacts.
What am I missing in your solution?
BTW, I use "Should I Answer?" and "Mr. Number" on my Samsung Galaxy S9 to deal with spam calls. I don't recall the last time a spam call got through. It uses Social Media and user submissions of bad numbers and/or bad prefixes to block spam. I think it works great.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
The folks with the Microsoft scam seem to hang up quickly when I ask what country they are from. At least they use live people. The loan scammers with their robocalls are the worst. They need to be beaten with baseball bats. Maybe include the duct cleaners with them. It’s unfair to not provide a real person for me to engage with.
And the corrupt FTC does nothing. Fire them all, abolish the agency, and give the responsibilities to someone that will take them seriously.
NoMoRobo doesn’t seem to work when the number on the caller id matches the number being called. Perhaps spoofing numbers on a robocall should be made a capital felony.
So sweet. Thanks! Turns out my carrier offers it as a service automatically in the Call Forwarding setup.
What am I missing in your solution?
BTW, I use "Should I Answer?" and "Mr. Number" on my Samsung Galaxy S9 to deal with spam calls. I don't recall the last time a spam call got through. It uses Social Media and user submissions of bad numbers and/or bad prefixes to block spam. I think it works great.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
Merry Christmas to you as well!
I long ago turned off voice mail. It's one less thing to do every day. If you didn't get me live on the phone then you didn't get me. Email or message but no voice mail. Voice mail is so 20th century answering machine simulator!
Yes it's a lot of work if you have a very big contact list. Though you only have to do it once and remember when you put a new contact on to give it a ring tone. When I did it I also cleared a lot of really old contacts from my list....mostly business related that I no longer needed. Heck I even had dead people on my contact list!
Don't want to string along the caller?
WANT THEM TO STOP CALLING!
WANT HEAVY FINES AND EVEN JAIL TIME USED AS PENALTIES FOR THOSE (COMPANIES) DOING THE CALLS!
“not as satisfying as loading a AARP envelope with bulk materials to increase their postage charge but it’s something.”
My dad kept sending “Good Sam’s” stuff back and calling them to be removed from the mailing list. Finally he taped their prepaid envelope to a chunk of granite about the size of a pet headstone with a warning “I have bigger rocks.” They took him off of the mailing list.
Have you published your method somewhere? I'm sure others will find it very useful!!
I still sing show tunes to them. Now, we get about half the number of calls...someday, someone will appreciate my “audition”!
Noborobo works for me, but if one gets through, I give them the gospel. Recently, I started getting chinese robo calls.
Mine has a limited number of room for blocking numbers. In one day, I’d use the limit three times over in one day just for the Apple, Inc. scam calls. That’s not counting the ones from Holiday Inn, State Bank, and the unknowns. No, I don’t answer.
The political ones are the easiest to get rid off. Just tell them you were going to vote for them but now you’re not because of all their calling.
You all should try the Jolly Roger Telephone Co.to stop all of those calls
MAGA dittos.
100% of the robocalls I received are recorded.
No. Don't do social media or blogs. If you do feel free to take it.
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