I got my welcome message from Wayne LaPierre today. And I suspect the NRA has been behind the recent rash of calls from some toll-free number. Since I don’t answer the phone unless I know who it is, they’ll get tired of that crap. Or it could be roofing salesmen...
Or rocket mortgage wanting you to take a cash out refi. ;-)
Ditto on the welcome message. We screen our incoming calls by having an answering machine announce we are hoping the caller will leave a message. We listen to the response from the machine and if it is spam we ignore it, if it is somebody we want to talk to we pick up the phone. Works great. Our robo calls have dropped at least 80% and that is no hype, from about 20 a day to at most 4. It is a bit of an inconvience for the callers we want but they all know why it is so.
Give them a fake phone # but your real email.
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