OT: Cell phone telemarketers
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This is fvcking hilarious.
Blocking the number does nothing. They spoof a different number each time.
No it won’t. It takes 20 seconds of scrolling to reach the bottom of my blocked numbers list. Hundreds of blocked numbers. Have you not paid attention to anything in this thread?
If they start sending me texts I’m replying with pics of my genitalia.
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Ok so now I’m having a conversation with myself. One thing that just occurred to me is that my wife never gets these calls. I roll on my own plan with sprint and shes on the family plan with her parents through Verizon.
I wonder if service provider plays a role in this?
I will say this too... I registered with the health care market place years ago. But I have insurance. Also, right after registering my LLC in 2014, I began receiving calls for loan offers. That has since died out. Now the calls other than insurance are a guy that sounds like the bookie from New York who used to try to get me to buy his daily pics and claiming I can make $10k a month.
I’m just curious if there is any kind of connection here that I’m missing. Perhaps why I’m being specifically targeted. It’s clear that the state (PA open for business) sells your info to people after they charge you $160 to be “legit”.
So they charge you to register then dump your info.
Fvckin shit.
I wonder if service provider plays a role in this?
I will say this too... I registered with the health care market place years ago. But I have insurance. Also, right after registering my LLC in 2014, I began receiving calls for loan offers. That has since died out. Now the calls other than insurance are a guy that sounds like the bookie from New York who used to try to get me to buy his daily pics and claiming I can make $10k a month.
I’m just curious if there is any kind of connection here that I’m missing. Perhaps why I’m being specifically targeted. It’s clear that the state (PA open for business) sells your info to people after they charge you $160 to be “legit”.
So they charge you to register then dump your info.
Fvckin shit.
I turn it on them. I either speak with some kind of accent (benefit of living everywhere in the country) and say thank you for calling and I go down a path that has them laughing or confused and they hang up. I talk about about movies, the weather, sports, breakfast, etc.
People who have heard me done it ask me what was that. I say spam. They start laughing and they try it.
We got Verizon. My wife and I both get the robo calls.
I feel bad for you as a business owner. I understand you have to answer your phone or lose customers. Good luck getting it stopped.
oh hell yeah. the ones that go sequentially through a given prefix are the easiest to spot.
It's worse for senior citizens.
Here's a letter to the editor that I wrote that was published in The Morning Call in Allentown around September last year.
Lack of Action on Stopping Robocalls
The article in The Morning Call that described the lobbying to prevent Congress from addressing the robocall problem prompted this letter. I always knew that these calls were a nuisance, but I never realized how numerous they were until I retired and was home during the day. And, yes, I am registered on both of the Do Not Call lists, which are ineffectual.
I am now faced with the approach of two of the worst seasons for robocalls: Medicare sign-ups and the midterm elections.
Since it is a certainty that Congress will again do nothing, I have considered several options. Blowing a whistle to annoy the spam caller is an option, but since they have my number I hesitate to create an enemy. There are some software options, but they do not stop all of the calls. Several of my friends have simply dropped their landlines. I decided on a different option. If I do not recognize the number, I will simply pick up the receiver then hang up after a few seconds.
I take great pleasure in that the same politicians who have done nothing to stop these calls will lose a valuable campaign tool.
That ain't gonna work. Try "En puhu englantia" (Finnish).
Unfortunately it's a problem without a good solution as of yet. DNC and blocking numbers does nothing because they spoof legit numbers. The vast majority of the calls I get have the same area code and prefix as my own number. I simply don't answer the phone anymore unless I recognize the caller but for business owners that isn't an option.
there is nothing much you can do as blocking the number does nothing as they have computer programs that just pick random number in your area code. many times when you answer if you say nothing, it will hang up. these places are calling multiple people at a time and when you say something, the it automatically starts in on whatever they are selling or an operator picks up. So just pick up and say nothing and if you hear nothing back in the first second or two then just hang up.
Or when you are having a bad day pick it up and talk. And then while giving wrong answer to the other person on the line, act like you have torretes syndrome and just randomly scream things into the phone. they can be random words or just crazy sounds. Try it and then see how the other person on the line reacts, it can be pretty funny as they have no clue what to do. occasionally they will just hang up on you if you get crazy enough.
Or when you are having a bad day pick it up and talk. And then while giving wrong answer to the other person on the line, act like you have torretes syndrome and just randomly scream things into the phone. they can be random words or just crazy sounds. Try it and then see how the other person on the line reacts, it can be pretty funny as they have no clue what to do. occasionally they will just hang up on you if you get crazy enough.
I received a text this afternoon from a spammer that had 20 phone numbers on it. About 10 seconds after I received the text, one of the others on the list replied with this:
“Are we seriously at the point where scammers are mass texting people now? **** off with this garbage”
LOL!
If you want a little entertainment, when you get the car warranty call, get to the human and ask them which one of your cars had its warranty expire.
When I get the windows support call, saying my PC is blowing up the internet, I start to play along but it stops quickly when they ask me to open something from the start button (because I'm on a macbook). I just play dumb saying I don't see a start button.
If you have a three-year-old hand her the phone.
If I actually still owned the f $%#&ing car they insist I do, then maybe.
Like someone else said I never gave my phone number out for years until the dear wife said I should include it when ordering something shipping via UPS in case there were shipping problems. It has been downhill from there. With the number of things online requiring you to give your number to get a text message to verify identity i.e. finances, and ticketmaster requiring mobile ticketing for some venues you have no chance to keep your number private any longer.
I get the mandarin calls, the calls with numbers that are similar to mine, identical to mine, locations that identify as the United States and spam text messages too. I block the number and try to move on. Stinks for you being a business owner, maybe you could look into putting a phone system in place like to talk to someone press 1 or something.
I get the mandarin calls, the calls with numbers that are similar to mine, identical to mine, locations that identify as the United States and spam text messages too. I block the number and try to move on. Stinks for you being a business owner, maybe you could look into putting a phone system in place like to talk to someone press 1 or something.
Nice to hear from you Big Roy, always liked your posts.
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I use the Hiya app. Works fairly well and constantly updates the database. Also blocks spoofed calls from numbers similar to your own.
The Do Not Call registry is as effective as a screen door on a submarine.
Now I even get calls from people who got a call from the spoofers using my number. It's happened more than once. Real people leaving me messages about why I called them.
The low-life swine that are responsible for this should be hunted down and lynched; hung from the nearest cell phone tower and left to rot. Actually, scratch the hanging and crucify them. Let the crows and buzzards have their way with them.
The low-life swine that are responsible for this should be hunted down and lynched; hung from the nearest cell phone tower and left to rot. Actually, scratch the hanging and crucify them. Let the crows and buzzards have their way with them.
Easy way to greatly reduce these phone calls. Go to the store and get a whistle and or air horn. When you get a live person on the phone blow. Believe it or not it works. The one time after I blew the air horn the telemarketer hung up the called back and asked if I was the a$$hole the blew the air horn in his ear. I asked him is sounded like this, and blew it again. What a dumba$$
My father died last December and I get a call from someone who wants to know who is the executor of his estate/trust. They go on to say how they want to help with the family finances. Never heard of these people and they were calling from out of state. Someone did some research and probably from the obit to find a family member. How they got my cell number is baffling. I simply told them to go away and hung up.
My Dad grew up speaking Slovak ( Eastern European tongue ) and would start conversations with telemarketers in that language. He rarely got return calls.
Is anybody here old enough to remember Tom Mabe ? He had a bit on the Bob and Tom show back in the 90’s where he impersonated a police officer investigating a murder when a telemarketer called. He threatened the telemarketer as being an acquaintance and a material witness in the murder.
Pretty funny, but he wouldn’t get away with that today.
I've had the same issue for over two years. I called my cellular company and they do nothing about it. Another law won't do anything as what they have now goes unenforced and overwhelmed by the sheer number of overseas scammers. Even my Google Voice # is now being abused by random calls although I rarely hear them. Unless I'm expecting a call I let most of them go without ever looking at the #, why bother?
There is no way enforcement catches up with technology at this point. Those who can use a robocall blocker are doing better but some can't so it's a mess that govt. can't/won't ever solve. Only good guy technology will help us and that will be subverted as soon as it rolls out most likely.
That has not been my experience. Not even close. And I've literally never answered my phone when receiving these calls.
I get about a half dozen calls per day. I’ve still got a number from jersey where I haven’t lived in over a decade so it’s easy to screen since I don’t keep in touch with anyone there. Every 908 number that calls me is a telemarketer. Switch your number to a random area code across the country that you would never get called from and you should be able to screen most of them.
I will add my 2 cents. I use Ducaller Android app and it helps identifying and blocking cell phone calls. Second, if I hear a pause, l know it is a spam call, and I hang up immediately. (Someone else suggested this) Third, I am rude, but nut nasty rude. I immediately ask people who call who they are, and if it is just a spam call, I just immediately hang up. No berating them or anything -- just immediate hangup. I get spam calls, but just not that many on my cell phone.
Interesting thing. I have an internet landline that costs about $6 a month. Its sole purpose is to call my cellphone, when I lose it. I don't get any spam calls on it. The spammers must have a way of monitoring phone usage.
Interesting thing. I have an internet landline that costs about $6 a month. Its sole purpose is to call my cellphone, when I lose it. I don't get any spam calls on it. The spammers must have a way of monitoring phone usage.
For what it’s worth the FCC rolled something out in March 1 to try to combat this. I remember reading something about it. Hopefully it helps.
It doesn't matter what the FCC does. Those behind the calls are already violating laws, so it's pissing on a forest fire as far as legislation/penalties are concerned. This one is going to have to be a technological solution found by wireless providers.
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