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Robocalls

grandma r — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:12:18 GMT

I am so sick of getting these darn calls!!!!!! With all of our technology, why can't someone come up with a way to screen and block this garbage??????

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StylishLady — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:27:04 GMT

Easy low cost method I use when I really want quiet is to unplug my base phone. Plug it back in when I want to call someone.

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Mz iMac — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:31:46 GMT

It's rare that I get robo calls. I must be doing something right!

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Group 5 minus 1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:34:15 GMT

We own the call blocker from the Q. We like it and are now receiving fewer calls

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ValuSkr — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:34:54 GMT

Have you tried signing up for NomoRobo? It's free and it works like a charm.

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CelticCrafter — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:40:37 GMT

We seem to get them in waves but nomorobo cuts them right off.

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GCR18 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:43:43 GMT

My unwanted calls are in a lull. I was getting daily calls from breast cancer something. They changed their number often. I think they finally gave up.

Recently I've had two calls on my cell phone. I give that number only to people I want to receive calls from. I think I gave it to my credit card company to text if there are fraudulent charges on my cc. The caller is a robo asking if I want to lower my cc rate, press one. I reported them to my cc company and they said it wasn't affiliated to them. Once I pressed one and they wanted my cc #. I said you have it, you called me. They ended up hanging up on me.

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viva923 — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:51:24 GMT

we broke down and got a V5000 no more robo calls. it attaches to the side of the phone (we do have a land line). cost us $100.00 or so, came from England but arrived within 1 week. so nice to pick up the phone and if it is a robo call, hit the huge red button and NO more calls from that number.

You get 5000 numbers to block on this unit. Am up to #26 calls since we got our unit. It is so nice.

If a robo calls comes in from the same number, a quick ring comes in that is it, the calls is cut off.

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Tchr58 — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:12:31 GMT

I use NomoRobo too and it blocks many calls but not all. I am more annoyed with the CallerID Spoofing. I have had calls that show my own name as the caller, and worse I have received at least 5 calls over the past few months that show our local hospital's name in Caller ID. I answered the first time. It was a robo call.

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Carol08 — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:23:44 GMT

@Tchr58wrote:
I use NomoRobo too and it blocks many calls but not all. I am more annoyed with the CallerID Spoofing. I have had calls that show my own name as the caller, and worse I have received at least 5 calls over the past few months that show our local hospital's name in Caller ID. I answered the first time. It was a robo call.

I have been receiving the same type of calls. The Caller ID suggests they are coming from a local phone number. I never answer, but I call the number on my cell phone, and every time I have done this, the message states the number has been disconnected. I also keep a LOUD whistle by the phone, and if necessary, I blow it into the phone, which will render the caller deaf for a while.

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SharkE — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:29:02 GMT

Call blocker, is the answer. HSN and Q both sell them.

I'm getting political calls if I don't recognize the last 4 digits I hit the big

red button and they will never get thru again. Will ring once is all.

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YorkieonmyPillow — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:37:05 GMT

Why not just screen all calls with an answering machine or voicemail?

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grandma r — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:45:17 GMT

Thanks so much for the suggestions. Our phone does have a block call button, but, these scammers find ways around that. I will look into getting a device to attach. Thanks again!!

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virginia girl — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:47:16 GMT

When I get a robo call and the number is shown, I write it down. The next robo call comes in and I write that number down. From that point forward when a robo call comes in I go to forward calls and use those numbers to forward other robo callers to. I have tried NoMoRobo and the calls still get in. I have to call blocker on my Panasonic phone and it helps; don't remember how many calls it will block. No one ring for me.

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proudlyfromNJ — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 00:50:21 GMT

@YorkieonmyPillowwrote:
Why not just screen all calls with an answering machine or voicemail?

@YorkieonmyPillow. That's what we do. Our phones have caller ID on them and the name also appears on the tv if it is on. If we don't recognize the name or phone number, we don't answer. Let them leave a message. However, they rarely do.

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JustJazzmom — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:17:48 GMT

800notes is pretty good at telling you what kind of call it is. White Pages tells you about the level of risk it is of being a scam call.

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Carmie — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:22:08 GMT

We get a ton of these calls. We were getting about 50 of them a day about 5 months before my DH was eligible for Medicare trying to sell insurance. The calls have died died some since then.

i got a phone to block calls and now only have to block about 5 or 6 calls a day.

we get calls from the fake IRS, fake Breast Cancer and many others. Sometimes they leave computer messages, more often than not, they just hang up.

i go into the call log every night and review the calls for that day and block them so that they can’t call again.

NoMoreRobo has never worked. I have reported a few callers and I can see from our local news, that many callers are now being prosecuted for their calls. I should report all the callers, but don’t want to take the time.

i know that when it gets closer to my Medicare date, the calls will escalate again. The insurance brokers are the worse. They won’t take no for an answer and they don’t go away. They keep calling from a different phone as fast As I can block them.

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happycat — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:25:12 GMT

@grandma rwrote:
I am so sick of getting these darn calls!!!!!! With all of our technology, why can't someone come up with a way to screen and block this garbage??????

I have wondered the same thing. I did get a phone where when I get a scam call, I can push a button and it will block it. But, when they call, it still rings one time.

And now I am getting these calls on my cell phone as well.

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geegerbee — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 01:57:13 GMT

I am interesting in buying this, but I have 2 concerns. lst, I have my main landline on the wall. It doesn't look as if the cord to connect to the phone would be too short to attach. 2nd, some people indicate you can't see the caller id on other phones in the house--only on the main phone. This would be inconvenient. Anyone have an answer to these questions?

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FrostyBabe1 — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 12:57:13 GMT

The only reason that I still have a home phone is because it was cheaper to bundle it with my internet service than get rid of it. I've tried NomoRobo, but I don't think it works very well. The scammers just keep spoofing new numbers everytime they call. People that I actually want to talk to have my cell number, so I never answer that phone. I have the ringer turned off and it goes straight to voicemail. Legitimate callers leave a message but the scammers never do.