Every day with the phone scammers -- SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (hot, people)

[EA]

I was getting 15+ a day until they announced that they busted a ring of robo callers. Then it stopped for a while then started back up just not as prolifically.

[Cinema Cat]

I no longer use my landline but I still keep it, in case of emergency (e.g., earthquake).

I only check my landline messages every month or so. Always, I have several dozen robocalls. Also a few live telemarketers, and the occasional wrong number.

I don't much mind the robocalls. It's their dime. If their clients want to waste their money on calling a number I never answer, so be it.

[Dd714]

Originally Posted by quixotic59

If you have Spectrum phone you can sign on to your account and enter up to 30 phone numbers that you want blocked. if they call you will hear 1 ring and see "Incoming Call" on your caller ID. As time passes you can wipe out some of the older numbers and enter new ones. You can also activate NOMOROBO on your account.

On a cell phone you can block numbers as they show up on your call list.

Totally worthless as the technology to spoof fake numbers, or change numbers, is now commonly available to spammers. You will never know where they are calling from or what true number they are using. A guy from an India boiler room call center will look like a call from your town. If you do call back you will likely get some innocent guy that has nothing to do with the call.

However if you have an old girlfriend or boyfriend you don't want to talk to anymore, then it's helpful.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by TravelingBoat

I get the "Home Center" home remodeling project scam calls about once per week. Every time they call I pretend like I'm interested then I ask for a website of the business they give me a fake address, or say "we don't have one" or they just hang up at that point.

What I hate about those is that it's usually some illiterate goon telling me that he talked to me 8-10 months ago and I told him I was interested and to call me back. If only they knew how foolish they sounded and how little tolerance I have for bullstuff.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

Originally Posted by EA

I was getting 15+ a day until they announced that they busted a ring of robo callers. Then it stopped for a while then started back up just not as prolifically.

Cool. Now then, if only our legislators made it a capital crime.

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I get so many of these calls I've stopped answering my phone unless I know who it is

[eureka1]

That's a wise policy.

[Exitus Acta Probat]

I'm going phoneless -- let's see these people try to hijack my carrier pigeons!

[zabala]

Originally Posted by Mr_Geek

Does everyone else mainly get the calls in Chinese or is it just because I'm in the SGV? 90% are in another language.

Lol, I do get those too. Apparently they call pretending to be from the Chinese embassy and telling Chinese immigrants they have a problem with their Visa's or the like.

Wish I knew how they get our numbers in the first place!

[BobbyBratty]

Originally Posted by quixotic59

If you have Spectrum phone you can sign on to your account and enter up to 30 phone numbers that you want blocked. if they call you will hear 1 ring and see "Incoming Call" on your caller ID. As time passes you can wipe out some of the older numbers and enter new ones. You can also activate NOMOROBO on your account.

On a cell phone you can block numbers as they show up on your call list.

It also helps if you screen calls with your caller id and don't answer suspicious numbers. I receive quite a few calls that match my area code but I don't recognize the numbers. Any legitimate callers will leave a message. I do have an answering machine on my phone.

This solves it for me!