Spam phone calls getting out of control

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Is anyone else dealing with this??? Prior to about 2 months ago, I hardly ever received any scam/spam phone calls on my cell. Now I get multiple calls from the same few numbers daily. Every number is listed on 800notes as scammers; I have no clue how my number got in the hands of these devilish criminals a-holes. They are all spoofed numbers so the DNC registry is absolutely useless these days.
 
Many of them have auto dialers to try every single number. If you get more than one call from a number, block it on your phone. I've got about 5-10 blocked now. Also, put your number on the federal do not call list.
 
Wholly agree with you. I was lucky for a decade of minimal calls on both my home and cell phone, but the past few months have been ridiculous. It could be because of the upcoming elections. Many of mine are vote-for-this-that calls. For my home phone I ended up using that privacy caller feature where I enter all numbers I know fall through but the rest go straight to voice mail. You can easily turn the feature on/off from the phone too with * numbers.

For my cell phone, it not nearly as bad and there appears to be no tool available from my cell provider to stop it before it reaches my phone unlike my home line. Oh well.
 
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do not call list will do nothing.

The best you can do is waste their time and resources. You can answer and just put them on hold or something. Imagine if everyone answered the spammers and just put them on hold or said just a second.

That would be the only way to get them to give up.
 
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I don't even answer my home phone. Any call there is not for me, it's a robot, candidate, or "opportunity" to update my google listing....

If oilBabe didn't want a landline, I wouldn't even have one.

I'm half tempted to turn off all the ringers. Already done so in my bedroom. May just turn them all off.
 
I was getting alot of calls like that. I put them on the block list on my phone and it cut down on most of it. They completely stopped when I moved and had my number changed. Not sure how you feel about changing your number, but it seemed to inadvertently worked for me.
 
I've had similar issues. I've received VERY few spam calls over the last few years on my cell but now I'm getting one or two a day for the past few weeks. Confirmed I'm on the NDNCR. I got put on a spam list somehow.
 
i get at least 4 calls a day from "Sharon" my Google specialist wanting to put me on the front page of Google...lol
They want you to push 2 or 3 to be removed....Dont push any buttons..

If i wanted to be the number one on google i would be without their help.
My business does not warrant that..I tried that 5 years ago and i got a zillion useless calls.
 
Agree on the don't push any buttons to be "taken off", it just proves to the spam rats that someone is there and that they are an obedient soul.
 
I don't get too many on the cell, but our (cable provided) land-line is ridiculous. We literally get 6-8 nuisance calls per day. About ready to scrap the land-line.
 
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My wife and I bought a SENTRY V2 Smart Automatic Blocker off of EBay and our home phone is now quiet.. Amazon sells them too. There are some apps for cell phones too.
 
Google Jim Florentine Terrorizing Telemarketers.
Then clink on the links on YouTube and give it a listen.
Jim Florentine is a comedian and also does "That Metal Show" on tv.

Anywho, he has some fun with telemarketers and turns the tables on them.
I've used his lines on them many times.
Fun, and incredibly satisfying.
 
We get them too. As pointed out with spoofing the Do Not Call List is worthless because they can put in any number they want. Some time back we even got a call where the number shown on caller id was our number.

It's very frustrating. The phone companies make money off the telemarketers, so they have no interest in doing anything to stop them, or at least offer services that would allow you to reject the calls. The politicians don't care since there's no money, or votes, in passing stronger laws. Not sure what we can do...
 
For multiple spam on my mobile from the same number, what I do is add the number to my contacts, put a name on it like "spam" or "junk" and then set the ringtone to nothing. My phone might beep afterwards for a missed call, but that's about it.

At home, I'm using something called nomorobo. Basically, all incoming calls ring at home and at nomorobo, and if nomorobo recognizes it as a spammer, nomorobo picks up and then hangs up. So, I'll hear one ring.
 
The (Oz) donot call list is only useful for the people selling solar panels and vinyl cladding.

They have skin in the game, and are really at risk of fines...I don't report them until their second go.

David from Telstra in Melbourne, trying to fix my infected computer...isn't In Australia, and is immune from the donot call register...report them to "Crimestoppers", the dashboard for the Police, and it builds a case that will go nowehere as they can never get to them.

So I waste their time if I've got some to spare...have ended up with two of them claiming carnal knowledge with my mother. At that point, you ask "what her name is", and they launch.

Maybe one of them will burst a vessel one day.
 
Whenever the phone rings, I pick the receiver up and set it back down. I figure if it's a real person and not an automated call, they'll call back.
 
Smart phones nowadays all have the ability to block spammers. Some have native ability while others require you to install an app. I've blocked over 50 spammers.. Many of them use 3- or 4-digit numbers.. clearly bogus.
 
I still have a land line and I am on the "do not call" list. I know it doesn't block political calls (heck, it doesn't block ANY calls!) because right before the last November election, we were getting about 30-40 calls PER DAY of people trying to sway our vote.
The best choice is to get an answering machine (or answering service) and let it take every call, because now they are spoofing the numbers and sometimes the caller ID says that the person calling is is our very own number. It's really funny how the government bragged on themselves when they passed the "do not call" list, but now they don't ever mention anything about it.
Our land line will probably be disconnected before the next election.
 
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