Unwanted phone calls

[garbo]

If you don't have a "call blocker" app on your phone, I would suggest you get one, even it it's a free app (i.e HIYA). It will block at least some portion of the calls. By the same token, take the time to "BLOCK" the sender on your phone. It's an annoying process but you'll eventually get to a point where the calls will diminish considerably. I don't know how these marketing companies are able to do this but today they'll call you from 123-555-0000. The next day they'll call you from 123-555-0001, then 0002, etc. You have to keep blocking them.

You are so right. I have told company that wants to sell me an extended car warranty to please take me off their list but that did not work. Have blocked at least 8 phone #'s from them. In the rare case that I pick up the phone and do not hear a voice first 20 seconds it's a pain in the butt company wanting to sell you something. Asked a few of them is it something important they have to discuss with me tell them listen I'm always busy do they will have to send me $50 for the privilege to speak to me and a $1 a minute. They always hang up. We still have a land line in the house because my wife rather talk on that. All of our friends either text or call our cell phone so 99% of calls on the land line are spam.

 

[BarryO]

All of our friends either text or call our cell phone so 99% of calls on the land line are spam.

We got rid of our land line when we moved, and realized the only people that called us on it were people who didn't have our cell numbers; that is, people we didn't want to talk to in the first place. The only people I know who still have land lines are some family members aged 70+

 

[Todd0x1]

I love how verizon charges me a bunch of money every month for spam call blocker (when they should be blocking these calls at the network level anyways) and some spam calls still get through. On the office phones, auto attendant gets rid of most of them but theres some new AI stuff that can listen to the menus and enter options for the spammers.

 

[Frank DuVal]

The only people I know who still have land lines are some family members aged 70+

Or people who do NOT have cell phone coverage at home!

Who wants to go outside in the rain or snow to answer or make calls? Not I.

 

[LarryFine]

Or people who do NOT have cell phone coverage at home!

That's me. I forward my cell phone to my office number (same line, distinctive ring) when I get home.

The different ring pattern lets me know how to answer the call.

 

[tom baker]

I was gone for 3 weeks and got 50 calls that were blocked. None left a message

 

[BarryO]

Or people who do NOT have cell phone coverage at home!

Who wants to go outside in the rain or snow to answer or make calls? Not I.

With Wi-Fi calling enabled on your phones, you don't need a cell signal indoors.

Before Wi-Fi calling was a thing, at our last house we had something like this:

AT&T Cell Booster - AT&T

A personal 4G LTE mini cell tower.

www.att.com

 

[junkhound]

FWIW, dropped land line awhile back and switched to VOIP with same phone number. Internet provided limits blocked calls to 25, but that seems enough aa someone already mentioned if blocked the caller often removes your number so can delete that one and add a new blocked numbr

Unwanted calls have dropped 95%

Also, a SE Asian friend told me about how to tell any SE Asian 'gentleman' (in Hindi) calling from Mumbai about how enjoyable their wife, mother, and sister were last night<G>

 

[GoldDigger]

Out here in the Northern California foothills, on the outskirts of Placerville (population 12,000), we have poor cellular service and Internet from Comcast.
In the event of a power failure, the Verizon cell towers go down when their batteries die, since the company removed the generators to save on maintenance. Before that whatever powers the Comcast cable repeaters dies (in about 2 hours.) At that point we have TV for maybe another 6 hours (the cable amplifiers hold on longer than the Internet-over-broadband architecture. But our DVR will not let us watch locally recorded programs once the IP connection to the mothership is lost.
Through it all we have never lost our land line service (essentially copper to the CO.) I do not get a greater number of spam calls on the land line than on our cell numbers, and the voice-announced Caller ID from our cordless phone system still gives a useful indication of what calls to ignore.
I am not sure how much longer we will keep it, but it is still worth the monthly fee at this point.

 

[ATSman]

The calls are computer generated


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[OldBroadcastTech]

My first words are always 'And how's the weather in Bangladesh?'

 

[tom baker]

I have a cordless phone that requires caller to enter a 1 to leave messsage if that number is not in directory. I get multiple calls where they hang up.

 

[Joethemechanic]

When I was in 5th grade a guy from Bell Telephone came to our school with a couple phones and some sort of small rotary switch in a box. They had us practice making business calls. When you are calling someone it is supposed to go like this when they say hello "Hello, my name is John Doe from XYZ Company, may I please speak to Jane Smith?"

Now I get calls that as soon as I answer they start asking me questions. I just hang up on them.

And I have my voice mail turned off, They can send me an email or a text if it's important.

@gar

I still have a Western Electric 202 with a dial. Like this one. it was on my desk until a few years ago when I discontinued landline service.



I'll have to take a picture of the big ringers that are on the wall out in the shop

 

[ggunn]

Holy zombie thread!

But I'll play... My outgoing greeting on my cellphone is "Hello. If I don't recognize your number I won't answer your call, and unless I know you if you don't leave a message I won't call you back. Have a great day."