gnappi
Well-known member
For my own reasons, I keep a home land line, but robocallers have become way too annoying lately. A few days ago I received yet ANOTHER call from some "credit card" company who I had asked politely to remove my phone number from their contact list in the past.
This call was different, the caller played back to me a recording of me in a previous call asking to remove my number. Then went on to harass me by saying they would continue to call.
So, in desperation I called the phone company and had them change my number and remove my contact info from their listing. It's been blessedly quiet since.
To limit the telemarketers finding and putting my home phone on their sucker list I am trying to follow some new approaches / recommendations I found on the web. Bear in mind I do NOT use the phone for voice communications at all.
1. "If no one ever picked up the phone when it rang, robocalls would stop" I stopped picking up the phone, and I disconnected my answering machine and I now let it ring with the ringer off.
2. I once again called the U.S. National do not call registry at 1-888-382-1222. In the past this has worked for several years, but not adhering to #1 blew that and I'm hopeful it will work better on my new number.
The CPR V5000 call blocker will not work for me as I have a bare bones landline without long distance, or caller ID features.
The phone companies and the feds are supposedly working on these issues and hopefully it will get addressed because it's recently started on my cell phone and I've had that number for 30+ years (ported from a fax number) and I'm not about to change that one. Till then my best defense on my cell phone is to answer it only for people in my contacts, from there legitimate callers will leave a message.
Who else is having these maddening robocalls?
This call was different, the caller played back to me a recording of me in a previous call asking to remove my number. Then went on to harass me by saying they would continue to call.
So, in desperation I called the phone company and had them change my number and remove my contact info from their listing. It's been blessedly quiet since.
To limit the telemarketers finding and putting my home phone on their sucker list I am trying to follow some new approaches / recommendations I found on the web. Bear in mind I do NOT use the phone for voice communications at all.
1. "If no one ever picked up the phone when it rang, robocalls would stop" I stopped picking up the phone, and I disconnected my answering machine and I now let it ring with the ringer off.
2. I once again called the U.S. National do not call registry at 1-888-382-1222. In the past this has worked for several years, but not adhering to #1 blew that and I'm hopeful it will work better on my new number.
The CPR V5000 call blocker will not work for me as I have a bare bones landline without long distance, or caller ID features.
The phone companies and the feds are supposedly working on these issues and hopefully it will get addressed because it's recently started on my cell phone and I've had that number for 30+ years (ported from a fax number) and I'm not about to change that one. Till then my best defense on my cell phone is to answer it only for people in my contacts, from there legitimate callers will leave a message.
Who else is having these maddening robocalls?