My Cell Phone Rings All Day Long With Recorded Messages It Is Getting Sick I'm On Do Not Call List

[PaulX2]

And it isn't doing anything.

"Don't hang up" garbage all day long.

I am getting pissed.

[Dem_4_Life]

1. Our phone telecom expert at work recommends everyone download scammer blocker apps

It will help prevent a lot of these.

[rurallib]

2. if you possibly can, answer only the numbers that you recognize

If someone really wants you, they will leave a message

[hlthe2b]

3. I google every number I don't recognize. Then block those suspicious.. If they are "real" they will

leave a message.

[lunasun]

4. File a complaint. They stopped for me 1-2 months gone . I was already on do not call but had to file

https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx
https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx has the online form

[Yonnie3]

5. It has died down lately on my cell.

They generate fake calling numbers (area code and prefix same as my number) that occasionally are a real number in my contacts.

If I have time I ask them questions until they figure out I'm not a sale and they hang up. After I've done that several times the calls seem to end for a while.

[Yonnie3]

13. As soon as I posted it rang

My car warranty needs attention. I jinxed myself by posting.

[cilla4progress]

6. I still have a landline.

95% of calls are scammers.

I only give out my cell no. to known others.

[kimbutgar]

8. Same thing for me on my landline. I just block them now.

My call block list is very long on my phone. My cell phone rings with numbers that are the same prefix. I just don’t answer unfortunately I don’t have call block on my cell phone.

[cilla4progress]

9. I used to get shitty with them

but I felt bad about it.

So now I just hang up.

[MurrayDelph]

7. I get the second half of recorded announcements

CenturyLink has a feature that requires callers to press 1 or stay on the line to be put through, figuring that most telemarketer boiler rooms don't take the time it would take.

Much better than the daily "Windows Computer Support" calls from India.

[Frustratedlady]

10. Yesterday, I got 5 or more calls from Washington, DC. I didn't answer, as I figured it was Trump.

I was busy freezing blueberries and he was getting on my nerves.

If I'd started telling him what I thought, I'd still be yelling at him. I chose the blueberries. He's not worth my time.

[cornball 24]

11. Got a call this AM from a "private number". Against my better judgment, I answered. Young

mail voice says "hi grandma, it's your grandson Michael. I say "yeah?". He says "just kidding, it's your nephew Michael". I say "yeah?". He hangs up. I'm sorry I didn't get him before he hung up. I would have screamed into the phone "Michael, I know you're in trouble. Tell me where to send a million bucks!"😱😱

[hunter]

12. Our military should do something useful...

... and bomb all the call centers these calls originate from. With fair warning of course.

Automated calling systems ought to be banned.

The only commercial calls permitted ought to be those made by actual human beings using old fashioned dial phones, and each commercial call ought to be charged a minimum of ten cents.



When I'm declared Emperor of Earth there's going to be some changes...

[Va Lefty]

15. "Automated calling systems ought to be banned."

[sarcasmo]

14. I use a Trac phone for companies that need my number. Friends and family have actual phone number.

[pennylane100]

17. What is a trac phone and where can I buy one.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

18. https://www.tracfone.com/

Around Chicago area you can get them at Walgreen's drug stores.

[pennylane100]

16. I usually do not answer if I do not recognize the number

however I notice that when I do answer with Hello, nothing happens, I decided, probably wrongly, that it is the second Hello that starts the computer message. I could be wrong but it always seems to work.

[WillowTree]

19. What gets me.......

.......is that there must still be numbers of people who fall for the "Julie (or Sara or Emily ad nauseum) from Card Services" offering to "lower credit card interest rates to zero percent" because those just keep coming and coming and coming. I'm more angry with the suckers who make it worth these scammers' time to keep perpetuating these things.

[FreeState]

20. Look for the app Hiya - it has blocked all of mine and its free n/t