[Sgt_Schultze]

Interesting. Hoping this works . . . a little at least.

[wally_bert]

I’m starting to get several in a row around 5 each day.

Never answered and later blocked.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

It’s gotten so bad, I never answer my home phone, and I only answer calls from my area code if I haven’t registered the caller.

This is entirely the fault of the phone companies.

[sit-rep]

I play the game with those calls all the time... I go thru pushing the buttons and waiting and then I am as crude, sexually explicit, vulgar as I can possibly be...

One time, i’ll never forget it... some black chick comes on and I asked if she, in other words, offered oral services with the others... she sighed, and after a pause she says...”All day long sir... All day long..” I busted out laughing and so did she. I apologized to her and she said she fully understands my frustrations with the robo calls. We wished each other a nice day and hung up! truly was funny.

but all of the others, I’d say my technique works 10 times better for no return calls than hitting the do not call option button!

[Zathras]

This could have been fixed decades ago but the Swamp wants to keep it so they can stalk you during election time.

[ibheath]

I started getting spoofed calls from my own phone number. I recorded a new voicemail greeting that started with the SIP code for disconnected number. I let all calls I don’t recognize go to voicemail. Within a week, I stopped getting robocalls. https://www.thisisarecording.com/signaling.html

[rigelkentaurus]

On my VOIP phone, when I block a call, the next time they call, my software sends a ‘number disconnected message” which their software recognizes and then removes my number from the lists. Between Nomorobo and that technique, I get very few bad calls.

[mountainlion]

The NO call lists were a total failure. Legitimate people did not call leaving most of my calls form scammers. Criminals must buy the no call list and call every one of them. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem.

[Qiviut]

We use this with very good results:

https://digitone.com/

The factory setting is to allow all calls & you block the ones you don’t want - you can block by area code, area code/exchange, or area code/exchange & as many of the last 4 digits as you want to use.

We were getting unpredictable calls from all over the US so I used the option to BLOCK all calls. Then I “invited” our local area code and any relatives that are out of state. Within our area code, any calls that are annoying are blocked by exchange or 1-4 of the last digits, that specific number or even by ‘name’. We get very few calls .... I see the ones that are blocked and it’s up to 10 a day sometimes.

[I want the USA back]

The slobs show you a false number. Blocking the false number is illogical, because it’s a false number. I get numerous calls from my area code and my local exchange, and most are fake, but I don’t block those. I let them go to voice mail and then determine if they are worthwhile or not.

A “white list” is as useless as the “do not call list.”

The other day I got so many fake calls within 3 hours that I set up my voice recorder, and wrote down a spiel that I will use in responding to the call. I will ask them for more information, and then give them false information about me. I will pretend to be half deaf, and misunderstand what they are saying, and ask them to repeat it, thus annoying the hell out of them. I will record the entire call and then post it for friends to laugh over.

I would go for public execution of offenders.

[1Old Pro]

If we have a law to prevent thee calls and we seem unable to enforce it than we need technology to prevent it.

[FXRP]

I use Nomorobo for $20 a year. It is pretty good but not perfect.

[ro_dreaming]

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/05/08/telemarketing-texas-house-fake-caller-id/

Texas is taking steps to make it illegal to fake your caller-ID.

[Thapsus_epiphany]

companies selling apps to identify who is calling, or selling apps to block unwanted calls, are almost certainly the ones doing this, relying on people’s curiosity, or anger. Who else would have a vested interest in this? Don’t reward them by buying the apps, just ignore the phone calls from anyone you don’t know.

[central_va]

The hacks spammed email to death and now they are ruining vox compunctions.

[PLMerite]

Yesterday I got a call on my cell phone from a company I have a home warranty with, concerning my policy. My caller ID showed their number as having the area code of my phone, not the state I am currently living in, nor where the property concerned is. I asked the lady about it and she said their call centers were in several states, none of which was the area code of my cell phone.

It seems to be more than cold-call telemarketers who are doing this now.