I am getting swamped with scam calls.

[leftyladyfrommo]

It started Sunday afternoon when I got 8 in a row. Here it is Wednesday and the calls are still coming.

I made the mistake of hitting "end" one time so they knew I was here. Big mistake.

I have my phone set to only put through contacts now. They have to give up sometime.

They probably set their computer to "harrass" so it's just calling automatically.

[OregonBlue]

1. There is no attempt any more to stop these crooks. My husband gets them every day, some

threatening to have his social security number "flagged and cancelled" if he doesn't respond to some unpaid bill for something that he never bought. Of course, no one can cancel his social security number but there are probably some people out there that don't know that and will reply to these crooks. For the Plump administration, these cons are just trying to run a business.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. They keep changing the phone number they are

using.

Here I paid a lot for a phone and the phone is the part I can't really use.

I have been getting a lot of junk emails and texts, too.

[csziggy]

12. They spoofed my number and called me on the number they were spoofing

My reaction was "The call is coming from INSIDE the house!"

Usually I don't answer calls from numbers I don't know. I get tired of the phone ringing so sometimes I pick up the receiver and drop it. I hope they interpret that as the disconnect my phone does for blocked calls.

[Stuart G]

3. I have a very simple solution for these calls...& It Might Work...& It Might NOT... Work...

....LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE CALL...THEN...SAY THESE 2 WORDS....."FUCK YOU".........

....All scam calls get the same solution....listen ...then those two words....I am trying this now and don't
know if it works...I will know in a week or two.. You see, it is my idea that the scam call people have a

.................DO NOT CALL LIST.................................................

Whenever they get a call that is awful or threatening....that call gets put on the list (I am guessing the
callers press a button..and the call is automatically on that list....................

If this is true, then those two words....."FUCK YOU".... will get your phone number on that wonderful
list, and you will not get these calls anymore from anybody.. (I am guessing that the scammers share
their lists, since the people listening to these calls have a hard enough job that they do not need to
listen to those 2 words..This is a guess, I do not know for sure, but in a few weeks I will report back to
the lounge with an assessment of this idea....By then, I will have used this for a month, and I will know
if this particular idea works...If not, then I will try something else, but it may work????& This may
not work......???

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Won't work. That just tells the scammer that there's a real person at that number

who will answer the phone and listen to the message.

[AngryOldDem]

8. 👍

Exactly. As annoying as it is, just ignore them.

[question everything]

4. Has been like that for the past few weeks. In time for the "holidays."

Amazon, Apple, Social Security. And on some days, once an hour.

We sometimes wonder whether they originate from the same source

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. My calls were coming every few minutes.

Then it was every half hour.

I tried just blocking but they change numbers every time they call so that didn't work.

[AngryOldDem]

7. I get these all the time.

I get these all the time, from strange area codes (111) is common, to names of people I don’t recognize as a way to “trick” me into answering. I just let them ring.

Do Not Call lists are jokes. I’d disconnect my landline but I don’t trust my cable provider to not mess up the rest of my services. Plus, I get just as many such calls on my cell.

Abuse of a utility, plain and simple.

[Brother Buzz]

9. I have one hard fast rule: NEVER press any option or respond

Your number has already been harvested and sold to other scammers, with a tag, 'will respond'.

[Earthshine2]

10. The calls keep coming because the phone companies profit from them.

They make some small fraction of a penny on each call, multiplied by tens of millions of calls per day.

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and others could shut this down if they wanted to.

[JCMach1]

11. Google Voice has AI that will screen calls for you now

Give them a taste of their own medicine

Brings a smile to my face to know they have to listen to an annoying AI

[zanana1]

13. I pick up the phone...

I tell them I don't speak English (while speaking English) and hang up.

[ItsjustMe]

14. I just block

All the numbers.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I tried to do that but they call from a different number

every time.

Now today is quiet but they will be back.

[ItsjustMe]

16. I had to block

6 or 7 numbers before It stopped.

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. I had 38 before I used do not disturbed

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set to only allow calls from contacts.

[OregonBlue]

18. We moved back to Montana from Oregon. Our old numbers were 541-483 XXXX. Now they

keep using 541-483 numbers and some of them are people I have in my contacts. Most people don't realize their number is being used. We called the Oregon and Montana Attorney General's office and neither had any advice.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. A lot of my calls start 816-392 which are my first

numbers. But when that didn't work I started getting multiple calls with other area codes and numbers.