topic Re: Help with NOMOROBO in Community Chat

Help with NOMOROBO

beach-mom — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:40:47 GMT

We have been bombarded with spam calls the past two days. We registered with NOMOROBO about 4-5 years ago and have had very few problems. Does anyone know if the registration expires? I know on the government site it's good forever, but I'm not sure about this one. TIA!

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

chickenbutt — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:45:18 GMT

I've never seen anything about an expiration. I've also used it for years and have never had any kind of correspondence asking me to re-up or anything. It goes until something changes with phone service - such as number or carrier. Short of that it just stays put, AFAIK.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

Toppers3 — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 19:49:39 GMT

@beach-mom wrote:
We have been bombarded with spam calls the past two days. We registered with NOMOROBO about 4-5 years ago and have had very few problems. Does anyone know if the registration expires? I know on the government site it's good forever, but I'm not sure about this one. TIA!

I would check your Nomorobo account and make sure that the settings are still the same.

I had inadvertently turned off our settings with them because I had been blocking numbers through our phone company account. That had canceled out the Nomorobo settings.

Once I had adjusted the settings again, everything started to work as it should.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

chickenbutt — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:06:23 GMT

@Toppers3 wrote:
@beach-mom wrote:
We have been bombarded with spam calls the past two days. We registered with NOMOROBO about 4-5 years ago and have had very few problems. Does anyone know if the registration expires? I know on the government site it's good forever, but I'm not sure about this one. TIA!
I would check your Nomorobo account and make sure that the settings are still the same.

I had inadvertently turned off our settings with them because I had been blocking numbers through our phone company account. That had canceled out the Nomorobo settings.

Once I had adjusted the settings again, everything started to work as it should.

Oh my goodness! I did that, too. I kept trying to figure out what went wrong and can't remember how I figured it out but once I changed something in my landline account it went back to normal. d'oh!

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

CelticCrafter — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:09:51 GMT

You can go to the NOMOROBO website and check to see if it's working.

If I remember they call you and it's an automated message telling you all is okay.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

NicksmomESQ — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:10:05 GMT

I agree with @Toppers3 recheck your settings. Last year I suddenly got bombarded with all these crazy annoying calls. It turned out that my settings through my phone provider got messed up. I had to go back in & re set them.Haven't had a problem since.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

Kujo — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 21:40:37 GMT

Occasionally, a spam call will get through on our landline which is correctly registered with NOMOROBO, but when I Google the spam call number, it turns out it was spoofed (redirected and stolen) from a legit business or residence. I just never answer any call from a number I don’t recognize. The other day, a robotic-voiced spam call told us (1) we were being sued for illegal use of Social Security and (2) that a warrant was out for our arrest. We’ve put our affairs in order for a possible long-time prison sentence.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

Kachina624 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:29:08 GMT

As I recall, it's a lifetime registration but it's ridiculously ineffective, a waste of time. Don't answer your phone if you don't recognize the number. If you pick it up, you let them know there's an active potential sucker at your number.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

NYC Susan — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 03:54:35 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
As I recall, it's a lifetime registration but it's ridiculously ineffective, a waste of time. Don't answer your phone if you don't recognize the number. If you pick it up, you let them know there's an active potential sucker at your number.

It hasn't been ineffective or a waste of time for me. I've had it for years, and the change is dramatic. I can't remember the last time I got an unwanted call.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

NickNack — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 12:15:05 GMT

I agree with @Kachina624 about it being ineffective. I've had it for many years and get spam calls every day. I don't answer them. I do block them on my phone, but they call back from another number. If my landline rings I know it's a spam call, because no one else ever uses that number.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

chickenbutt — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:23:16 GMT

I'm surprised some are having different experiences with nomorobo. In my case, it picks up the vast majority of them. Only one call here and there isn't caught so I just hit 'block' and it's done. I would say that it catches more than 90% of them, though.

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

dooBdoo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:29:50 GMT

I have a VoIP phone line with my Xfinity bundle and Nomorobo works extremely well with it. On the rare occasion a bad call slips through, I go to the Nomorobo site and report it -- remember, everyone benefits when we report new numbers and help update the database.😊

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

dooBdoo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 17:43:17 GMT

@chickenbutt wrote:
I'm surprised some are having different experiences with nomorobo. In my case, it picks up the vast majority of them. Only one call here and there isn't caught so I just hit 'block' and it's done. I would say that it catches more than 90% of them, though.

I'm surprised, too, chickie! I wonder if they're thinking that since the phone rings once and it registers on their list of calls that means Nomorobo didn't catch the call? Here's one description of the way it works:

"...When using Nomorobo, you will always hear the first ring of an incoming call. If there's only one single ring, that means Nomorobo has picked up the call and blocked it as spam... "

Re: Help with NOMOROBO

NickNack — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:53:12 GMT

@dooBdoo wrote:
@chickenbutt wrote:
I'm surprised some are having different experiences with nomorobo. In my case, it picks up the vast majority of them. Only one call here and there isn't caught so I just hit 'block' and it's done. I would say that it catches more than 90% of them, though.

I'm surprised, too, chickie! I wonder if they're thinking that since the phone rings once and it registers on their list of calls that means Nomorobo didn't catch the call? Here's one description of the way it works:
"...When using Nomorobo, you will always hear the first ring of an incoming call. If there's only one single ring, that means Nomorobo has picked up the call and blocked it as spam... "

@dooBdoo Occasionally my phone will only ring once. Then I know that either I have blocked that number or Nomorobo caught it. 99% of the time, though, the phone rings four times until my machine picks it up. Then they hang up. Occasionally they'll leave a message asking me to call them back. I would never call them back.