Community Chat

[SharkE]

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.

[YorkieonmyPillow]

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

[grandma r]

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!!

[virginia girl]

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.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@YorkieonmyPillowwrote:

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

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@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.

[JustJazzmom]

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.

[Carmie]

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.

[happycat]

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@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??????

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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.

[geegerbee]

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?

[FrostyBabe1]

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.