Re: Anyone know of a phone that can block spam cal... - Page 5

elated · ‎06-09-2010

@CANDLEQUEEN wrote:
I need something for my landline phone, as I get calls every day at least 5-6 times a day from different numbers but all from the same company claiming to be a loan company..

They start calling at 730am until at leastm 7pm....It is so annoying, we tried not answering, but they leave voice messages-all computer generated of course, we have actually answered after so manyn calls and said please stop we are not interested.

They still call.....If anyone knows of anything we can do to eliminate this, all suggestions are welcome!

Thanks!!!!

I have Spectrum and when you sign in, it shows telephone on my account. If you go to that service, it will instruct you how to block calls. I had the same problem and I just blocked all incoming calls except those of my immediate family and it worked. I was getting calls from 9 am to 9pm daily. The calls were all from the same prefix but the last four numbers were changed. Hope this helps.

Scooby Doo · ‎03-14-2010

I just checked out the newest Panasonic cordless phones. Apparently it has a new feature where you can press a button which asks the caller to identify themselves before it will ring again. If you don't want to take that call just hit the red button and it's blocked. It also has 1000 known spam numbers that are already blocked. Not sure if they update that info. You can add another 1000+. It has bluetooth and you can link it with your cell phone. You can program special rings for family or friends. My phone is over 10 yrs old so I might get this one.

jackthebear · ‎03-11-2010

@RedTop wrote:
Honestly, the best way to get rid of spam calls is to stop answering the landline! Don't waste money on another phone, just don't answer the one you have for any names or numbers you don't recognize.

With every call you answer, you are validating your phone number as "live and active", so your number will stay on that shared list as well as for robo calls.

I stopped answering unknown calls to our landline 12-15+ months ago. Yes, it was ringing constantly and the same numbers were showing up time and time again, calls from names and businesses I'd never heard of, from areas unfamiliar to me. I just let the phone ring, no one ever left a message, so I never gave it a second thought. After months of unanswered unknown caller, or calls from a certain town, on the landline, I began to receive calls identified as Call Research, which is trying to verify your number as active and likely to be answered by a human. Since those calls were never answered, my number is apparently no longer viewed as active, as my landline phone hasn't rung but twice this month and it was my brother.

The number of people who are most likely to call my landline are few. My immediate family and closest friends text or call my cell phone, and will leave a message if I don't answer. I intend to keep my landline for my convenience; not for nuisance calls, so the fix for stopping unwanted calls was to condition myself to stop answering the calls from unknown numbers!

i agree we never answer the phone, and it's been that way for years, and get very few calls
You are right, answering lets "them" know its an active number

jlkz · ‎12-02-2013

@jackthebear @CANDLEQUEEN @red top

Once Verizon provided Nomorobo service ( it's free ), the number of annoying calls has stopped.

When we started receiving many calls a day from a SC or NC set of numbers, we installed the service and at the end of the day simply went through the unanswered calls which were listed by tel. # and topped in red with the City and State for the call. Simply clicked on Block this Caller and soon the lovely silence filled the house !

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill

mrshckynut · ‎06-19-2011

@Scooby Doo wrote:
I just checked out the newest Panasonic cordless phones. Apparently it has a new feature where you can press a button which asks the caller to identify themselves before it will ring again. If you don't want to take that call just hit the red button and it's blocked. It also has 1000 known spam numbers that are already blocked. Not sure if they update that info. You can add another 1000+. It has bluetooth and you can link it with your cell phone. You can program special rings for family or friends. My phone is over 10 yrs old so I might get this one.

@Scooby Doo our 10 year old at&t will store 1000+ unwanted call numbers and you can use it on auto block where the phone doesn't even ring or choose manual block where it rings and you can answer it or block it
we prefer using auto block

mrshckynut

pdlinda · ‎10-23-2011

@nascarfan My understanding is that the spam calls are ALL COMPUTER BOTS...not real people. On that basis, your whistle will literally and figurately fall on "deaf ears."

For 30 YEARS I have gotten spam collection calls associated with my former husband...30 YEARS of this!! The calls (all computer generated) usually rotate in 6 month cycles from numerous numbers.

After all these years, I know to never answer, to block every number, to delete voice mails and wait out the usual 6 month period they persist.

Right now, the calls are dormant. Haven't had one for over 3 months now.

qvcfreak · ‎03-10-2010

@CANDLEQUEEN I pick up but I don't say anything and they hang up. And sometimes I answer in Spanish speaking really fast and they hang up. I get very few spam calls.

Venezia · ‎03-09-2010

I'd have to look for the model number of the Panasonic phones we bought near the end of last year.

But they had an option that we put in place. If a number calls that's not in our contact list, the caller has to press a number, like 1, to prove it's a human, not a robocall.

We've had blessed silence since then. If we get an occasional call we wait to see if the person leaves a message. If s/he doesn't, we block the number.

"" A little learning is a dangerous thing."-Alexander Pope

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

Landlines don't have as many options as cell phones. Scammers don't follow the do-not-call list or listen when you tell them to stop calling.

My iphone has options to block scam calls. It also tells me when a a spam text or call sneaks through so I don't answer it. Then I go in to my calls/texts and block the number.

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

My problem in the last 2 weeks has been SPAM calls that have been blocked on my cell phone---and they are legitimate calls.

And the worse part is, if my cell thinks an incoming call is SPAM, it won't even ring. So if I'm not looking at my phone, I won't see it coming in. If the person leaves a message, it doesn't show up as a voicemail.

So I have to keep checking my voicemail to see if someone left an important message.

This has happened with a hospital just 3 weeks ago. Several different departments of the hospital, too, that were trying to contact me and being treated as SPAM. They were leaving messages that I had no idea were there.

I didn't realize this was happening until I called the hospital and they said they had left me a message. I thought I was going crazy. Then I heard all the other messages that were left.

It's only happened with this hospital.