Any way I can get less junk phone calls? - Page 2

RespectLife · ‎02-27-2012

My mom is 83 and still lives alone. The phone calls were just terrorizing us all. I handle all of her affairs and everything legit has my phone number not hers. Yet, with her dementia, I could not get through to her to JUST HANG UP! She would talk and talk and give out my name and number....

I finally changed her number to unlisted. That lasted 3 days. Robo calls get through anyways. SIGH. She is no longer able to function a cell phone so sadly a land line is necessary.

On my own land line, I now have groups tell me the NO CALL REGISTRY 'doesn't apply' to their organization. I ask to be removed and hang up. I wish I could turn off the ringer like Mz Imac, but w/ my mom...I can't take the chance she may need assistance.

curlywhitedog · ‎03-09-2010

In absolutely desperation over all the calls I was getting I purchased the CPR call blocker from Amazon. I swear the word must have gone out because since Saturday I have only gotten 2 calls when I would normally average 3-5 a day. Of course I know the call blocker has nothing to do with the decrease in the calls, it's just coincidental, but I was so looking forward to pushing that red button with the "Block call" words on it...lol.

Was talking to my neighbor this morning and she told me her son (in his mid 20's) received the scam call on his cell phone about the caller being the Sheriff and her son owing over $2,000 to the IRS. The poor kid went into a panic and told the guy he didn't have $2,000 so the caller said to send $1,000 now or he'd be arrested at 6PM. My neighbor's son asked for and got the guy's number and said he'd call him back when he could get the $1,000 to send. In the meantime, he told his father who called the IRS who confirmed that this was a scam and the caller never called back but he did say, before he hung up, that he was willing to meet the kid at a local drug store where they sold money grams or something like that at 4 that afternoon so he would have time to stop the arrest at 6.

These people need to be stopped because being called by the IRS is a scary thing and I can see how senior and/or unsophisticated citizens or young kids might not know about this scam and send the money.

Maria

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I didn't know about these 'call blocker' units. Nice! But $80 seems like a lot. Might be worth it, though, to have the ability to block 1200 numbers! That would last about forever. With my Panasonics I can only block 30 numbers and that goes fast during the political season.

Domestic Goddess · ‎03-19-2010

The Federal ""Do not Call"" number is 1-888-832-1222 Registering with this number will permenently restrict telmarketers from calling your home. You can also file a complaint with them if a company continues to call your home (after you ask them not too) by calling this number. Hope this helps!

knmt · ‎07-14-2010

I purchased an Ooma Telo (VOIP) over a year and half ago. I love it. One can blacklist individual phone numbers or whole area codes. I was getting tons of telemarketers calling. Did have a phone that did block up to a certain amount, where it would ring once and then disconnect. Not enough for me. However, with Ooma, if the nuisance call is in an area code where I know no one or do not do business(most of them), I block the entire area code. Nowadays it's blissfully quiet. Phone does not ring at all when these boneheads call. I might get a call once a month from yet another area code, which I do not answer and promptly block and add to the blacklist.

CalminHeart · ‎03-09-2010

I cancelled my land line and rarely receive such calls on my cell.

I still signed up on the do not call list even though it exempts political calls.

When someone calls, tell them: Put me on your do not call list and never call me again. It won't solve all of this but might cut back on one or two of them.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

On 8/27/2014 Domestic Goddess said: The Federal "Do not Call" number is 1-888-832-1222 Registering with this number will permenently restrict telmarketers from calling your home. You can also file a complaint with them if a company continues to call your home (after you ask them not too) by calling this number. Hope this helps!

Two things - 1) there are so many exemptions to the do not call list that you still have the potential to get scores of calls; and 2) one time I reported a company and they responded to the do not call people that I was a customer of one of their companies. Well, they listed those companies (dnc list forewarded this info on to me) and I had not even heard of ANY of them. So, they lied and they got away with it.

Sukks that the bad guys always are one step ahead of the good guys.

NanaS · ‎04-21-2010

We get lots of daily land line calls also but we have caller ID......we just glance at the phone and just don't pick up.

geezerette · ‎03-16-2010

On 8/27/2014 chickenbutt said:
On 8/27/2014 Domestic Goddess said: The Federal "Do not Call" number is 1-888-832-1222 Registering with this number will permenently restrict telmarketers from calling your home. You can also file a complaint with them if a company continues to call your home (after you ask them not too) by calling this number. Hope this helps!

Two things - 1) there are so many exemptions to the do not call list that you still have the potential to get scores of calls; and 2) one time I reported a company and they responded to the do not call people that I was a customer of one of their companies. Well, they listed those companies (dnc list forewarded this info on to me) and I had not even heard of ANY of them. So, they lied and they got away with it.

Sukks that the bad guys always are one step ahead of the good guys.

We get many computerized calls, but most of ours are from companies that we have accounts with.

We did get one computerized scam call, though. I thought that was pretty brazen of them to not even use a real person to try to extort me!