topic Re: Update on Spam Calls in Electronics

Update on Spam Calls

SouthernBee — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:59:45 GMT

Last July posted issues with over 20 spam calls per day and using a Panasonic phone with call blocking and another black box product with a red call block button.

Later discovered that as of 2023, Panasonic had a new phone that had 14,000 preinstalled known robo or telemarketing calls . But the phone had mixed reviews and the price started at $130.

My phone service is with WOW cable. I called this week to see if they finally had something to deal with the robo calls. Finally stated yes and no extra service charges.Yesterday was the first day the service was activated. Received only 1 robo .🙏🙏🙏 What a difference!

Re: Update on Spam Calls

eaesquire — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:17:42 GMT

@SouthernBee This might be a silly question but are you talking about a landline phone? I have a friend in Wisconsin with a landline who gets lots of spam calls all day every day. I'd love to find a gadget or service that might help.

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SouthernBee — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:48:52 GMT

@eaesquire : Not a silly question and forgive me for not stating that it is a landline phone. The service is now with with the cable company and the the phone is connected to the router and modem, sorry not able to explain better.

@eaesquire wrote:
@SouthernBee This might be a silly question but are you talking about a landline phone? I have a friend in Wisconsin with a landline who gets lots of spam calls all day every day. I'd love to find a gadget or service that might help.

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eaesquire — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:52:01 GMT

@SouthernBee wrote:
@eaesquire : Not a silly question and forgive me for not stating that it is a landline phone. The service is now with with the cable company and the the phone is connected to the router and modem, sorry not able to explain better.

Thank you so much for sharing this information! I will suggest to my friend that he contact his cable company, Spectrum, and see if they have some ideas. I don't have a landline phone anymore so I'm out of my depth with this dilemma. I'm grateful to you for the idea.

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SouthernBee — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:57:55 GMT

@eaesquire : You're welcome. Trying to add photos of my two call blocker products.

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eaesquire — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:03:51 GMT

@SouthernBee This is AWESOME! Thank you so much. Truly, I'm so grateful for the information on these products. All of this is going straight to my dear Joe in Milwaukee. He is retired (aka at home a lot), and the spam calls are maddening.

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SouthernBee — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 13:13:51 GMT

@eaesquire : You're welcome. Yes, we are retired and tired of the phone ringing all day. Some times the spam calls would start at 8 a.m. and then really increase after 4 p.m. and continue until 9p.m🙄🙄

@eaesquire wrote:
@SouthernBee This is AWESOME! Thank you so much. Truly, I'm so grateful for the information on these products. All of this is going straight to my dear Joe in Milwaukee. He is retired (aka at home a lot), and the spam calls are maddening.

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PickyPicky3 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:45:23 GMT

So nice to hear success stories.

Right now I am down to only one spam (actually maxi marketing) caller: a large network of regional realtors wanting to buy my house.

They're not robocalls -- they're real localish people who are very nice. I beg them to remove my number and they say they don't know how to do it. I believe them. I get their calls 3-5 times a week. Their phone numbers are always different because there are so many of them.

Not answering has had no effect. 3-5 unwanted calls a week is really not bad. I guess I should call them 5 times a week.

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mrshckynut — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:05:51 GMT

@eaesquire wrote:
@SouthernBee This might be a silly question but are you talking about a landline phone? I have a friend in Wisconsin with a landline who gets lots of spam calls all day every day. I'd love to find a gadget or service that might help.

@eaesquire have had our at&t landline phones for close to 10 years now if set to autoblock the 4 phone set will block all numbers not in your personal directory the phones will not even ring and very rarely let even 1 through

mrshckynut

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Icegoddess — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:20:23 GMT

@SouthernBee You're the first person I've seen mention WOW. We have WOW for both our internet and my husband's phone. They bought out Knology, who we were with before.

We don't get a lot of Spam calls anymore. Not sure why. I got calls daily from Gutter Guard for a few years, but that was my fault in that I had signed up for a giveaway at the Home & Garden show. They were the only vendor that insisted on calling over and over though. I joked that they were checking my landline since it often goes down and I won't know until my husband goes out of town and tries to call me. They finally stopped around the time of this year's Home & Garden show. Funny, my phone line went down around that time too. I'm still on copper wire landline, not VOIP.

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Kachina624 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:21:51 GMT

Over 20 years ago, my. Phone company, Century Link, put a device on my phon3 that answers all calls before I hear a ring. It tells the caller that this phone doesn't accept sales call and if it is a sales call, to hang up and add the number to the do not call list.

I get very few solicitations. I do get a few calls with out of state area codes which I never pick up.

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eaesquire — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:41:09 GMT

@mrshckynut Thank you for that advice. I passed on the info from SouthernBee and added your advice to it. Hopefully my dear Joe can get the spam calls under control. You ladies are great!

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SouthernBee — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:56:23 GMT

@Icegoddess : We started with Knology and had some issues when changed to WOW. We tried Mediacom and their phone service was down a lot, and we had not purchased any smart phones yet and needed a dependable land line.Went back to WOW and the local office had cleaned house and started with a better staff. No other issues and love WOW.

@Icegoddess wrote:
@SouthernBee You're the first person I've seen mention WOW. We have WOW for both our internet and my husband's phone. They bought out Knology, who we were with before.

We don't get a lot of Spam calls anymore. Not sure why. I got calls daily from Gutter Guard for a few years, but that was my fault in that I had signed up for a giveaway at the Home & Garden show. They were the only vendor that insisted on calling over and over though. I joked that they were checking my landline since it often goes down and I won't know until my husband goes out of town and tries to call me. They finally stopped around the time of this year's Home & Garden show. Funny, my phone line went down around that time too. I'm still on copper wire landline, not VOIP.

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SaveTheTurtles — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 01:38:09 GMT

@eaesquire wrote:
@SouthernBee This might be a silly question but are you talking about a landline phone? I have a friend in Wisconsin with a landline who gets lots of spam calls all day every day. I'd love to find a gadget or service that might help.

I'm in Wisconsin and if your friend has either spectrum or ATT they both have robo cop options that can be set up on the landline. My dad had spectrum and I was able to only allow certain phone numbers come through like in his case family members only. It was a godsend for him at the time. Not sure if ATT has that same option but I know they have call blockers. Hope this helps.

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eaesquire — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:35:23 GMT

@SaveTheTurtles I don't know how I missed your response, but thank you for it. My friend, Joe, in MKE has Spectrum. I've just passed on the info from your note. Joe and I appreciate the advice. Please forgive my delay in acknowledging your note.

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SilleeMee — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:17:05 GMT

What do you do when your internet goes down and the phone doesn't work since that is connected to the router?

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SouthernBee — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 23:33:42 GMT

@SilleeMee : I use my cell phone.

@SilleeMee wrote:
What do you do when your internet goes down and the phone doesn't work since that is connected to the router?

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SaveTheTurtles — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:15:28 GMT

@eaesquire wrote:
@SaveTheTurtles I don't know how I missed your response, but thank you for it. My friend, Joe, in MKE has Spectrum. I've just passed on the info from your note. Joe and I appreciate the advice. Please forgive my delay in acknowledging your note.

Hello, no need to apologize. I am glad you found the info useful, if your friend is able to access his account online it is very easy to set up the call feature options. Thanks for responding to me. Good luck!