Posted on 02/13/2019 12:32:26 PM PST by SMGFan
I don’t have anyone like that, luckily.
I got a call on my home phone, FROM my home phone! If it wasn't so aggravating it would have been funny.
How do you stop them when the same company is using hundreds of phone numbers and if you call back you get THIS NUMBER IS NOT A WORKING NUMBER. They are all voice recorded, not a human. Both hubby and I saw the Ortho in the last 4 months, his last check up from his new partial knee and I fell and injured my shoulder and needed Physio.
Now we are INUNDATED with calls from a Brace company. All those Heath ins calls about drove us crazy. We are Medicare/Tricare Life. We can’t get a third ins, it cancels the Tricare Life he spent 20 yrs in the Navy earning.
I almost always talk to them. String them along for as long as possible. Get their hopes up. Give them a fake credit card number (they will ask you to repeat it). Then put the phone down and walk away laughing to yourself.
This is at least a decade overdue.
And there’s an international component to it, since a major portion of those spam-scam calls are from India in particular.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop them from spoofing your number as the caller. If it ever happens to you, you’ll know from the flood of angry texts and callbacks from people you didn’t text or call.
I frequently get calls with my area code and local prefix.
Some of them show no ID, but I have noticed recently that more have a name in the ID. Of course, I have no idea who the individual is, so I still press on IGNORE.
Once the first photon crosses within the territorial limits it is subject to our jurisdiction.
“I almost always talk to them. String them along for as long as possible.”
The Tom Mabe tactic is still my favorite response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttrzG5F4R3o
Yes. Thank you Mr Pai.
I have been using that too. I was so damn sick of these calls. Some still get through!
If it’s a number I don’t recognize, I don’t answer it.
If it’s important, they’ll leave a message.
Crackdown - noun.
Crack down - verb.
Carriers could EASILY stop robocalls.
And while I'm on a rant, when the hell did all these medicare providers start advertising year round?
Okay rant off.
Yes! I got a call on my cell phone from my home #... while sitting in my kitchen!
People need to be go to jail for this cr@p...
About a month ago I called Frontier to complain about the number of robo calls I was getting. Not sales pitches, just silent battery. They said they could do nothing. For the next week they increased. Finally, after receiving 18 calls (local and not) in less than a 24 hr period, I called again. After much complaining and whining on my part they gave me a number for the FCC nuisance complaints. I told them my tale of woe, but the lady didn’t seem to believe the number of calls I was claiming. At that point I told her I had saved them all on my Caller ID list. Even though there were spoofed numbers on the list, she wanted them all and the times they were made. I read them off to her. She made no promises, but within two days I noticed a sharp decrease in these calls.
I still get some occassionally, but no where near the number I had been receiving. I do still get the annoying telemarketeers, police orgs, fire orgs, cancer orgs etc.
Have had that several times.
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