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One approach is to get a new cell number and port your existing cell number to Google Voice (GV). You can then forward calls from the latter to the former, using GV blocking and spam filtering to kill off the noise.
I tried this once. Now I have debt collectors after me because of my numbers previous owner.
Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
It is interesting half the calls I bother to answer, are just instantly disconnected. Why bother calling if you are not even going to attempt to scam me. It is funny to get a live person and mess with them though..."oh which credit card are you referring to" I kept one agent on the line for a few minutes and was eventually called some very insulting swear words. If I recall correctly I was called a "bitchass mother f…
Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
1. Vacation Rewards Center - selling cruises I think
2. Business line of credit - their phrasing make it sound like I called them ("Hey, just getting back to you about that $15k line of credit)
3. Tax scare tactics, trying to settle debt or penalties
I didn't know who feel for this stuff until I talked to an older gentleman who said he got these calls and it took him a long time and encouragement from his friends to know it was a scam.
Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
Yes, amazed at how many local numbers are spam. I get three a lot: 1. Vacation Rewards Center - selling cruises I think 2. Business line of credit - their phrasing make it sound like I called them ("Hey, just getting back to you about that $15k line of credit) 3. Tax scare tactics, trying to settle debt or penalties I didn't know who feel for this stuff until I talked to an older gentleman who said he got these calls…
I've never clicked '1', and never felt I've missed out, but I've gotten that same call from local numbers in my same block maybe 50 times already this year.
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Yes, amazed at how many local numbers are spam. I get three a lot: 1. Vacation Rewards Center - selling cruises I think 2. Business line of credit - their phrasing make it sound like I called them ("Hey, just getting back to you about that $15k line of credit) 3. Tax scare tactics, trying to settle debt or penalties I didn't know who feel for this stuff until I talked to an older gentleman who said he got these calls…
"this call is in reference to your credit account...there are no current problems with your account, please press 1 to be connected to an operator that can share an amazing opportunity for you $something" I've never clicked '1', and never felt I've missed out, but I've gotten that same call from local numbers in my same block maybe 50 times already this year.
The interesting thing is that I usually only get a person 1/2 the time. The system just glitches to hangup the rest of the time.
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Part of it is that their are legitimate reasons to spoof CallerID such as when a company wants to set all outgoing calls to show the main company name and number, even when the call originates from a direct inbound dial line. Carriers could block calls from numbers that supposedly don't exist or dial out--and I believe some are starting to offer than as a service. But if they spoof as a real number, that won't work.…
>"If the average person was getting a hundred calls a day to the point where they couldn't use their phone service, something would happen." This does seem to be the endgame. The last excuse I heard was "what if a friend of a friend wants to invite you to her party so she gets your number from the shared friend, and she also does the same for a bunch of other friends of friends?"
This also seems problematic?
I've frequently wondered why, in this day and age, telcos are permitted to provide telephone service without any guarantee whatsoever of the originating phone number being accurate.
I'm baffled that telcos allow this, regardless of regulations. I get so many robocalls, I stopped answering my phone. But when I get a FaceTime call or an iMessage, I'm on it. Robocalls dilute the trust consumers have in the phone system. The telcos are rapidly ceding this trust to other forms of communication -- those provided Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook etc. As robocalls proliferate, tech companies win and telc…
Hopefully this is the first domino that ends all this crap. Myself and everyone I know has been getting hammered with spam robo-calls for the past year or two with no signs of slowing down. I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.
Yes, amazed at how many local numbers are spam. I get three a lot: 1. Vacation Rewards Center - selling cruises I think 2. Business line of credit - their phrasing make it sound like I called them ("Hey, just getting back to you about that $15k line of credit) 3. Tax scare tactics, trying to settle debt or penalties I didn't know who feel for this stuff until I talked to an older gentleman who said he got these calls…