Community Chat

[qualitygal]

Yesterday, we had so many calls from areas we don't live in or near, nor ph #'s in area codes we know.  Was it test your phone day, and see who you can reach that will answer their phone, even if they don't know you???  I mean, crimeiny!!!!!

[SoCal Bred]

We'll get calls with out of state area codes too, we never pick up they're more than likely spam calls, this will go on it seems for a week, morning til evening then dead silence for 2-3 weeks then it will start up again.

[drizzellla]

We used to have days like that.

One time I stopped counting. We had over 28 calls before 1 PM. It was crazy. And the calls were from all over the United States.

But what stopped it for us was, our landline has sporadically been working since August, 2022. Whenever it rains it stops working. Also our FIOS system was upgraded and we can no longer access our voicemail. 

My husband wants to keep the landline. When we are asked for our phone number we always give our landline number. If we know it is just going to be used for sales calls or asking for money. 

All our friends, family or a business we deal with, get our cell phone number.

[SoCal Bred]

@drizzellla wrote:

My husband wants to keep the landline. When we are asked for our phone number we always give our landline number. If we know it is just going to be used for sales calls or asking for money. 

All our friends, family or a business we deal with, get our cell phone number.

Same here!

[AnikaBrodie]

Most likely scammers ...  I've been getting a lot of these calls too.  Some are from my area code with prefix I don't know.  Others are from area code with prefix of people in my city.  I do not answer.  But they are so annoying with lots of calls in a very short period of time.

I also think a lot of these calls are "spoofed" numbers.  Be careful if you answer.

[CalminHeart]

My iphone actually shows "spam" so I don't answer. Then I block them. 

[CelticCrafter]

We've been getting 4 or 5 a day for the past week or so.

I don't answer them but it's to the point where I'm going to start telling people to text me before they call because I'm getting ready to turn the ringer off during the day.  

Just need to get in the habit of checking for messages after dinner and remember to turn it back on for overnight.

[MamaWick]

When we retired and moved here, we kept our cell numbers from our former state.  What gets us are all the political calls and texts from that former state. 

[OKPrincess]

DH receives twice as many spam calls as I do.

Unless we know the caller, we do not answer unless expecting a service call that day.

Yesterday, we were expecting a tech from Geek Squad to call on his way to our house.  So I answered and it was him.  Best Buy wouldn't give a number to expect beforehand. 🤨

[jlkz]

Why not get a local number for your new home and provide it to friends and family back home to use.

You can suspend service for a while to your old number for a one-time charge ( Verizon charges $50 ).  This would cost you nothing monthly.

Then your new number would receive calls from people you want to hear from.....unless the random calls from a call center starts up.  At least the political calls would stop from your old home area.