Do you get all these stupid robo calls or sales calls even if you're on the fede

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• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  I stopped answering my home phone a year or two ago unless I know the person calling.
• rockstar666

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  9 years ago

  Yes.
• sclvr5005

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  9 years ago

  If you got a VoIP phone try NoMoRoBo. Works lime a charm and is offered thru your provider
• gawker

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  9 years ago

  I ignore "unknown" on my landline and answer but then block the number on my I-phone. I've currently got about 68 numbers blocked, but calls are slowing down. I've bought Viagra from about 20 different online pharmacies so we have a "prior work relationship" and the Do Not Call list doesn't apply to them. They are relentless in their pursuit of sales.
• georgmicrodong

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  9 years ago

  I disconnected my landline and transferred my home number to Google Voice early last year. I have a cheap, dumbphone on my mobile account and use that as my GV phone. I have it set to send *all* calls to voice mail by default, and a "whitelist" for numbers I actually want to talk to. Once a week or so, I go check it and see if there are any new numbers I want to add to the whitelist, and throw the rest in the spam folder so they get the "no longer in service" message.
  
  I *never* get robo calls anymore, since I don't give my cell phone out to anybody except friends.
• crazyjoe

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  9 years ago

  Ask them for their credit card number
• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  I looked up one of the numbers today that wasn't blocked on my phone. Apparently the likely choice was a presidential poll based on the most answers found online. However one guy posted it was a girl at Myrtle Beach and listed birthday, name, address, social security number and credit card information along with the security code and expiration date. If that information is valid but someone spoofed her number, that would suck for it to be freely available online. Maybe a hacker got a robocall and that is his method of getting even with every robocall.
  
  I wonder if these numbers listed on the caller id are someone else's legitimate phone number and the fraudster just stole it for temporary use. One of the most frustrating ones are out of area with no number left to block. I have my ringer turned off a lot of the time as well.
  
  Seems like the phone calls are missing a big potential money making opportunity. They could set up an electronic voice mail bank sort of what like george did but the phone company could run it. All calls to your phone would be blocked so your phone would never ring even if someone dialed it directly. Instead all calls go to a phone bank. If the number is on your white list, it goes direct to your phone and rings. If blocked or blacklisted, you can view a record list of phone number, caller id and blocked if you want. All other calls are recorded for you to check and or listen to later like an online answering machine. If the phone company could do this for $2 a month, I'd buy into it. I'm saying only $2 a month because I don't want the phone companies getting any ideas that most people would pay a fortune for this service.
• sharkhunter

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  9 years ago

  Apparently phone companies are not too forward thinking or they would have offered some service like this and advertised it ages ago. Maybe the executives of phone companies don't use landlines so they never get robocalls or any other unwanted phone calls so they never thought about it.
• shadowcat

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  9 years ago

  I have caller ID on my home phone and I just let the machine pick up all unknown callers. I got one the other day saying that it was me calling and from my number. How do they do that?