Posted on 11/11/2017 6:14:57 AM PST by SandRat
We have Nomorobo, stops most of them but we still get them. They’ve wised up and spoofed their number to a local area code to escape getting blocked.
I kept a record of the calls one month a year ago. Recorded more than 70 that month. Those were only the computer generated calls. Didn’t count the phone sales with a real person.
Sent the list and complaint to the NC Attorney General. He basically said, “Aw, sorry”.
The real culprits are the companies that pay the telemarketers to hound us.
That’s who needs to be shut down. And the phone Co.s for selling the blocks of numbers. Pacific Bell used to be the biggest offender.
The thing that REALLY frosts me is if a live person was hounding you this way you could get the laws after them. But somehow autodialers are immune.
“I have 17 vehicles warranties on my car now.”
I’ve won so many free 3-day 4-night vacations that I can sell my home and go on vacation the rest of my life!
I do the same. My greatest victory was when a telemarketer swore at me while claiming i was too dumb to see what a great deal i was missing and then he slammed the phone down.
I used the circular question ploy. After a while he must have gotten in to my games.
I always ask if their refrigerator is running. Ask them what they’re wearing. Ask if they’re married. Do you like show tunes? Do you pee in the shower? Are you a terrorist?
Excellent.
All telemarketers should be arrested and made to perform 120hours of community service.
We still have our original landline number hooked up to a magic jack in the office. We don’t answer it either because of the telemarketers. It does have voicemail on it and emails me with the voicemail. Only reason we still have it is because a lot of hubby’s retired firefighter friends have that number and not his cell phone number. Occasionally we’ll get a call on it from one of them.
The calls to the office and my cell phone have increased hundreds of percent in the past year. The problem is out of control.
I used Truecaller for a while, but it sort of became bloatware.
I am trying Calldetector which is specifically for Tracfones.
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One of the current telemarket/spam/robo tactics is to call using the recipient’s area code and local prefix. I get several of those calls per month, even though I am on the state and FED do-not-call lists. Sometimes, a telemarketer will respond, other times it is just dead air. Most times, I just refuse the call unless I recognize the caller. If it is important, they will leave a voicemail.
I’m old fashioned. I give them Nixon’s SS#
More seriously, my dad got scammed by a "your computer has a virus" call. Grrr!
I use this on my landline (actually an older version of it):
https://www.telsentry.com/pages/sentry-3
It’s 100% effective blocking robocalls. The beauty of it is that you don’t have to explicitly block each number. The way it works is that if the number isn’t in either the black or white list, it plays a message to the caller asking him/her/it to dial zero, and if the caller does that, the call goes to the phone. Robocallers never do that, so the phone never rings.
Sanity restored.
No, in order to get more power for themselves.
No, in order to get more power for themselves.
Outlaw auto dialers
it plays a message to the caller asking him/her/it to dial zero, and if the caller does that, the call goes to the phone. Robocallers never do that, so the phone never rings.
My brother’s home phone plays a recording asking the caller to press 1 to reach him or press 2 for his spouse. It rings the same phone and after that it goes to VM. Stops all robocalls.
I wish I had an app that did something like that on my smartphone...
try this:
sign up for a VOIP account from VOIP.MS and forward your current number (if you have one) to them to try them out before considering porting your existing number. Buy a Obitalk gateway, attach it to your existing telephone wiring (first detaching any other provider) and your LAN, and use their website wizard to configure it for your VOIP.MS number.
Then use myvoipmsalt.com to eliminate junk calls from getting through. Works like a charm for me.
(we still need a “land-line” for our businesses, btw, and 15 hours average total talk time costs under $10.00 in VOIP.MS charges.)
Physically cut the lines coming from the India based call centers from which these calls originate.
Send in our Special Forces to blow-up those call centers or better yet, just drop a few strategic tactical nukes, a MOAB, Bunker Buster or whatever the hell is required on a few of 'em.
Watch this problem stop in a big hurry.
No more calls from the "IRS" saying you need to load up a gift card with $2,000 to pay a fake IRS tax lien.
No more calls from "Microsoft Technical Support" telling you to let them into your computer so they can "fix" a virus for you and oh, btw now your computer is held ransom for $300.
No more calls from some "police benevolence society" from some guy with a strange accent named "John" who promises you that your money will go directly to help a grieving state police officer's widow (who doesn't exist)
And finally, from the home office in Lincoln Nebraska: No more calls from "Mary" saying to "please hold on the line for the next available agent who'll reduce your credit card interest rate by half!"
Easy to setup, work great, can add your own list of numbers to block (I block my crazy ex-wife) and both use social media reporting of scam numbers to stay current on numbers to block.
Been using both for over two years now and I have nothing but high praise for both of these apps.
"Mission Accomplished"
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