Posted on 12/10/2019 12:39:38 PM PST by pabianice
I am getting multiple daily phone calls from a "pharmacy" boiler room. Each from a different state. All states. All area codes. I hang up and block that number. Doesn't matter. I get the same from each state. Several dozen a week. Month after month. The background as always the boiler room with many voices in other cubicles. I block each number but they call on another number. I am on the "do not call" list. Makes no difference. They call every day, from another number.
How can I get them to leave me alone??
I SECOND THAT!! I installed YouMail three months ago and it replaced a spam call blocker that'd become ineffective.
Hands-down YouMail is the best spam call blocker out there!
You answered a call, they know it is a good number...
Do not answer numbers you do not recognize
Kill you land line, and go all cell
Are they actually trying to sell you prescription drugs without a prescription?
It has worked wonders for me. Robo calls by computers will hang up and live operators will too.
My problem is that I have to answer because it might be a new client. This also makes the blocking of all but contact list numbers an ineffective solution for me.
Most of those calls now come to cell phones-not land lines anymore-I have both, I use my cellphone at work-I block at least two phone scam numbers during my work day-but there is seldom an unknown number on my caller ID at home.
Do a search on how to make money on robo calls. You can get $500 by following a procedure to turn them in. $1500 per call if you are on a do not call list. That’s for computer initiated calls by recording.
I don’t answer if I don’t recognize the number especially when I’m at work-and I block the unknown number. I don’t answer unknown number calls on my land line at home either...
Follow following instructions:
1 - Answer phone
2 - Listen to sales pitch
3 - Order product
4 - Ask to be put on Auto Ship and your problem of unwanted calls has been resolved.....
I’ll get five calls a day warning “Dear citizen,” my SS# will be frozen if I don’t press 1 and talk to them. It is a robot voice. Then it will be quiet for a few weeks and it starts again. Not much you can do. I pressed 1 once, just to see what they had in mind. You are immediately transferred to someplace in Bangladesh or India where a person will ask you to confirm your SS#. I admonished him for being an a$$hole, and he fired back that it was my fault for pressing 1. Just ignore the calls, or play with them. Make up a number. Tell them your name is Hillary Clinton. The “do not call list” is perhaps W’s greatest legacy, and it doesn’t work.
They won’t stop calling, but get ‘this’ and you can control what calls you do get:
Works great. I reset it from the factory setting to block ALL calls, then “allowed” my local area code. This stops all the calls from out-of-state, multiple numbers ... we had that same problem.
Friends, family, doctors within our local area code are not blocked. If I get calls within our area code that are problematic, I can block them or block the ‘exchange’ (first 3 numbers after area code). You can also block up to 20 by name & that comes in handy sometimes.
Friends/family that are out of our area code are added to either an “invited” list or a “VIP” list & they ring through.
My folks are elderly so stopping the 6-12 spam/annoying calls a day (record # was 16 one day!!) has restored peace to the house.
Qiviut wrote: “Works great. I reset it from the factory setting to block ALL calls, then “allowed” my local area code. This stops all the calls from out-of-state, multiple numbers ... we had that same problem.”
That system only works for callers who are using their real number. Telemarketers are now using a system that allows them to appear as any number they wish. I’ve even received calls from my “own” number.
glock rocks wrote: “There’s a setting in iPhones to only let calls through that are in your contact list. That’s how I deal with it.”
This one of the very few systems that works. Android has a similar system. Within Settings, select Do Not Disturb. Under Exceptions, allow calls from your contacts list. Anything else goes to voice mail.
I used to get 4 to 6 calls per day. Now, I don’t get any.
Just keep your contacts list updated.
Much easier to use than Digitone mentioned above (I have both), and no limit on the number of blocks it can handle.
No affiliation, only satisfaction.
In your case buy a whistle and use it.
Plan B if plan A does not work—Air Horn!
coaster123 wrote: “My phone makes noise only when my wife calls. Other calls go unnoticed.”
A friend once used a very “breathless sexy voice for his wife’s calls. Once, in a big meeting his phone said: “Hey Sexy what are you doing.” He changed the ring tone.
Are they coming on your landline?
Cancel the landline and only use a cellphone. I quit Verizon 3mos ago, after 29yrs, and don’t get any mktng or crank calls anymore.
DON’T EVER PUT YOURSELF ON THE “NO CALL LIST”; it just gets you more calls!
Don’t answer.
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