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It's becoming almost a daily occurrence to get one of the following types of calls on my cellphone or landline:
Your credit card may have been compromised
Your Windows license or auto warranty is expiring
The IRS is auditing your tax return
A Third and Final Notice for Failure to Appear in Court
I do all I'm supposed to to shield myself and family from this, but it seems to be getting to the point where the calls from scammers will exceed the legitimate calls.
I predict either passcodes for family members or a rise in personal screening services.
It's becoming almost a daily occurrence to get one of the following types of calls on my cellphone or landline:
Your credit card may have been compromised
Your Windows license or auto warranty is expiring
The IRS is auditing your tax return
A Third and Final Notice for Failure to Appear in Court
I do all I'm supposed to to shield myself and family from this, but it seems to be getting to the point where the calls from scammers will exceed the legitimate calls.
I predict either passcodes for family members or a rise in personal screening services.
I am in the same boat and I find it incredible that not all nor many of these calls can be effectively blocked. Apparently it is OK for the phone companies to offer you blocking services for a fee, yet at the same time turn off native blocking function that are standard features on some phone equipment.
I have had to settle for copying the numbers I do not want to hear from into "spammer" ids in my phone book and then setting a custom ring tone for these phone book entries. The custom being "no ring and no vibrate."
Unfortunately this does not prevent them from leaving a message. Fortunately, not many do.
From the Verizon website you can block 5 numbers, but only for three months (no real help) or you can pay them about $5 a month to be able to block up to 20 numbers (still not much help AND you are now paying more), but my "block list" in my phone is up to about 50 numbers now. For some reason that I have not yet found, phone companies do not seem to want to be able to help you with this issue - even if they can make money on it.
Last edited by blktoptrvl; 06-05-2017 at 03:50 PM..
Spam calls on both wired house line and cell phones has become a frequent annoyance.
You would think either state or federal government could be more effective in controlling this problem since they want to become involved with everything else from fertilizer application to income tax management.
Do not call list are less effective than "Keep off the Grass" signs.
Spam calls on both wired house line and cell phones has become a frequent annoyance.
You would think either state or federal government could be more effective in controlling this problem since they want to become involved with everything else from fertilizer application to income tax management.
Do not call list are less effective than "Keep off the Grass" signs.
Not only are they no help... now the FCC is contemplating actively trying to make it worse for subscribers...
Nomorobo is effective at shutting down problematic callers on landline phones, but it needs to be a VOIP phone service, doesn't work with analog landlines.
I too was troubled by weekly spam calls, but not of the phishing nature that OP describes. Mainly Medicare supplement and Home security companies. So I blocked each unknown number on my iPhone that didn't leave a voicemail-very easy to do and then registered Mrs5150's and my number on the federal Do Not Call list. Been over a month since I've had a rob call.
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It used to be that you could just not answer if you didn't recognize the number on caller ID. Now lately we are getting them with a local number, even with the same area code and prefix as ours, somehow faked on the caller ID. That, unfortunately, means blocking is useless. They just call again using a different fake number. One caller that starts off with "you recently stayed at one of our resorts" I have blocked 8 times with different numbers. I found that most robocalls will have a human pickup if you answer and speak, otherwise if you pick up and are silent, nothing happens. So what I do which wastes their time and is at least a bit of fun is pick up, say hello loudly, then when the human starts to speak I will hang up in their ear. Alternatively, I will say hello, and when they start to speak I'll set the phone down and walk away while they are giving their spiel to no one. Last night I had a survey call while a commercial was on TV so I set it next to one of the speakers.
Spam calls on both wired house line and cell phones has become a frequent annoyance.
You would think either state or federal government could be more effective in controlling this problem since they want to become involved with everything else from fertilizer application to income tax management.
Do not call list are less effective than "Keep off the Grass" signs.
Even with strict guidelines/laws/regulations in the US, many of these spammers operate overseas and/or hide or fake their phone #. Not as easy to solve as you might think.
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