Has anyone had a substantial increase in spam calls the last three days? I've had over 50 since 7:15am on the 27th! Four already this morning. I would normally only get a few a day if I'm lucky with an occasional zero call day. I went through the numbers and there was only one that called twice. Various area codes. This is an Ooma landline. The phone has a call blocking feature, but has a limit of 200 numbers, which would have been filled a couple years ago. At this rate, it would take less than a week! Thank goodness they don't have my cell number.
Sometimes the calls are within minutes of each other while others are 45 minutes to an hour apart. 99% are hang ups. One idiot leaves a pre-recorded message saying "We have something very important to tell you. If interested, please call us back." Uh...OK!
I'm guessing they have some sort of computer VOIP setup that spoofs numbers that just keeps calling people and guessing its mostly from one source. Me being on the receiving side of this, I wonder why they don't have some code written that tells them -this number has been called 500 time with no answer-delete it-.
Thinking about unplugging it for a couple days. But as its probably a PC calling me, it won't care that its ringing 10 times with no answer vs the four before the machine picks up.
I'd love to find the origin and go Office Space on all their equipment!
Sometimes the calls are within minutes of each other while others are 45 minutes to an hour apart. 99% are hang ups. One idiot leaves a pre-recorded message saying "We have something very important to tell you. If interested, please call us back." Uh...OK!
I'm guessing they have some sort of computer VOIP setup that spoofs numbers that just keeps calling people and guessing its mostly from one source. Me being on the receiving side of this, I wonder why they don't have some code written that tells them -this number has been called 500 time with no answer-delete it-.
Thinking about unplugging it for a couple days. But as its probably a PC calling me, it won't care that its ringing 10 times with no answer vs the four before the machine picks up.
I'd love to find the origin and go Office Space on all their equipment!
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