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As I posted in an earlier thread about this problem, I either hang up immediately or if I feel like it, use an ancient old geezer voice and country accent to "witness" for a small foreign charity which serves orphans. I go on and on about those pore leetle cheeldren, and how Jesus wonts us to halp widders and orfants, and wind up asking if the caller doesn't want to donate?? When they say no, I respond "I'll pray fer ye, honey" and hang up.
They don't call back.
(The little foreign charity is quite real: see Bible Orphan Ministry, in Ukraine. They do great work with over 1,000 kids in ten different orphanages, on a shoestring budget, and are honest and very upright folks).
I call and receive calls from 3-4 people. I mainly use my phone to listen to books and music and as a way to contact my DH when we are in different rooms.
I never (truly never) text. Just this week I have been receiving texts from someone: Hi! This is Candy, I got your number from our friend, she said you like to party and so do I! We should get to know each other!
When I blocked that number I received another text from a different number. When I blocked that number I was bombarded with texts from different numbers. The same thing happened the next day. I ended up having to disable the app completely.
[quote=VTsnowbird;53805973]they are all spoofing numbers now. I have a hard time figuring out how to answer my cell (swiping is involved) and I have seen an out of state number, that I couldn't answer in time, change to a local number once I went to recent history, right before my eyes.}
I am so happy to learn I have a kindred spirit . I have a newish Moto G6 phone and I HATE answering a phone call! The "Dismiss / Accept" screen at the top is small and doesn't stay on long, and if I miss it I have NOT been able to find how to answer the phone while it is still ringing no matter how I swipe!! I go to the Phone icon and that still doesn't do it....I can't get the "accept" option back. Drives me nuts. I HATE talking on a cellphone anyway; I mainly text and do Facebook etc.I always tell people if they know I'm home, call the home phone. It's attached to a fax machine (which I don't use) and has a real handset
But the Caller ID window is great, haha.
I don't get that many spam calls...mebbie 'cause I don't answer.
Any number I don't recognize, I ignore. If it's important, they'll leave a message.
If a number calls a second time, with no message, they get blocked.
Many of the spam calls are spoofed numbers from my town.
I even got calls from "me." If I wanna talk to myself, I don't need the phone.
My friends bought a thing on QVC that connects to their phone. If a junk call happens, they hit a red button and it blocks any further calls. My phones are old, so it’s labor intensive to block calls and I can only block 30.
If you have a home phone sign up for nomorobo.com It is free for landlines and does get a lot of them, especially recorded calls. If you have a cell phone and are thinking of a new number because of the annoyance, get it from an area code you don't have any friends from (yes you can do that) and then with an app block all calls from that area code. The majority, though not all, spam calls are spoofed numbers from your area code. If the state has several area codes and you know no one from that state, block them all. With a cell phone they will go through to your messages; however very few spammers actually leave a message.
Why not try to scam them when a live person calls back, or keep calling the number they called you from, like 15 times a day, tell them you just found out about this amazing investment opportunity and you are hoping they would be interested in hearing about it, get around to asking for a 'small' donation!!
Maybe they will throw your number out, thinking they have accidentally called a fellow scammer!
Well because they are probably faking the caller id and you would only be disturbing an innocent person. My husband’s number was used by some scammer and someone called him and left a message so we called him back informing him it was a scammer using a faked caller id.
You can do this if they are a robo call leaving you a number to call back though.
We only have cell phones. I block all calls not in my contacts or the area code where I currently live which is not the same area code my phone has. Everything else is blocked and goes to voice mail which 99% of scammers don’t use. A real person will leave a message and I add them to my contacts if valid. If you have a home phone I reccommend nomorobo. They even get political calls. It is not perfect but you can report numbers that get through.
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. I have a newish Moto G6 phone and I HATE answering a phone call! The "Dismiss / Accept" screen at the top is small and doesn't stay on long, and if I miss it I have NOT been able to find how to answer the phone while it is still ringing no matter how I swipe!! I go to the Phone icon and that still doesn't do it....I can't get the "accept" option back. Drives me nuts. I HATE talking on a cellphone anyway; I mainly text and do Facebook etc.I always tell people if they know I'm home, call the home phone. It's attached to a fax machine (which I don't use) and has a real handset 
