Recording on a recorded line.

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I keep getting phone calls from "whoever" selling "whatever" on a recorded line. Several every day. What have we become? Does anyone fall for this and is there any way to prevent it? I'm registered on the "Do not call list" but apparently that doesn't mean anything anymore.
 
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I think the do not call list either has to be redone every several months or theyre buying phone numbers from amazon or somewhere. I have more now than I ever did- ones from credit card companies saying I can lower my balances, and I don't even have a credit card. I always make an operator take my call then either leave the line open or blast music into my phone. They want to waste my time, I'm gonna waste theirs.
 
Get you a gizmo from amazon that allows you to block numbers or see if your phone provider has it. I have both a landline and a cell, my landline provider offers unlimited blocks as does my cell provider.

I too get upwards of a dozen such calls daily, but 99% seem to be spoofed numbers as when I use a disposable phone to call back it tells me the number is disconnected, why, even one time I got a call, and the box on the tv told me I was calling myself from my home number.
 
The latest trick of telemarketers is to get phone numbers from your exchange to make you think you're being called by someone in your town. I have a connection with DirecTV that works with Caller ID that displays the phone number and caller for incoming calls right on the TV screen. I avoid just about all the calls from people I don't want to talk with in the first place.
 
Golddollar said:
The latest trick of telemarketers is to get phone numbers from your exchange to make you think you're being called by someone in your town. I have a connection with DirecTV that works with Caller ID that displays the phone number and caller for incoming calls right on the TV screen. I avoid just about all the calls from people I don't want to talk with in the first place.
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Same here, the number calling pops up on the screen for me to see who's calling. Lately they are "cloaking" themselves with local area codes and such. My answering machine now answers all of my calls, if it's a friend or family, I pick it up. I like the idea of getting a human to come to the phone and then laying it down.

Sort of like the unwanted mailings I always get. If there's a prepaid envelope in with it, they get all of their stuff back, on their dime. I just stuff the junk mail in their envelope and send it back.

I'm now getting more and more unwanted calls on my cell phone these days too. :mad:
 
I got a call every day from Norristown, PA (610 area code) near me. I answered it once to get a recorded message about s home security system. I hung up and immediately blocked the number. Next day same operation with different 610 number. Blocked again. More calls all with 610 numbers. Many of my friends and relatives have 610 numbers.

I have no land line. I do it all by cell phone. So I decided to not answere 610 calls unless the callers name appeared because it was in my contacts list. I figured if any call I did not answer was important the caller would leave a message.

Then a few days ago I got a 610 call from a personal contact and guess what. It was the same recorded sales pitch. Then I got a call from someone who I did not know asking me why I kept calling them. Well fact is I had not called them ever.

I called Verizon and explained the series of events. They told me that someone had cloned the phone numbers to mask their caller ID. That is why a person thought I had called them when I had not.

No matter what safeguards are available, some schemer will figure out how to bypass them.
 
This was timely. Just as I was reading your thread, this junk call Caller-ID came in to my in-laws phone. Had to laugh.

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Bigwheelzip, that is a keeper. Never saw anything like it.
 
For a lot of years I have used an answering machine for all calls coming into my land line. I do not answer unless it is someone I know. On my cell phone, if the number is not on my stored address list, I also do not answer.

I think Congress could easily put some real teeth into the "Do Not Call" system, but like so many other things, they don't seem to want to do anything about it.
 
DWalt said:
For a lot of years I have used an answering machine for all calls coming into my land line. I do not answer unless it is someone I know. On my cell phone, if the number is not on my stored address list, I also do not answer.

I think Congress could easily put some real teeth into the "Do Not Call" system, but like so many other things, they don't seem to want to do anything about it.
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If the calls are comming from out of the country, the do not call cant do anything about it.

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My standard answer to " hello I'm so and so and would like to save you some money on ( whatever product) " I say in my best Gomer Pyle sounding voice " save money save money me and my wife haven't saved a dime in 40 years why would we want to start now no no no son or if female hon we are trying to spend every cent we get every month but I tell ya what come up with an expensive product that costs way too much and call me back " . Works every time haven't had a come back to that yet and generaly they figure I'm either crazy or too stupid to have my own mo ey and don't call back . My wife she is real mean about it though she acts like she wants the product and asks can I just give you my card number of course they say yes mam then she will start babbling off a number and wheezing and coughing and just carrying on .She will waste time on and on ever how long they want to stay with it then when they hang up she will just laugh and laugh . As far as the do not call list though what they should do is make it mandatory if you call me at my home uninvited the first thing you have to do is give me your home phone number and the home phone number of at least two relatives . I think tne next time I get a call I'll ask em for some references I can call.I guess y'all can tell I'm a retired old man with too much time on my hands but it's sorta entertaining messin with em.
 
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I'm now getting more and more unwanted calls on my cell phone these days too. :mad:
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I wonder how many blacklisted numbers my cell phone can hold?
I answer the landline with just my last name i.e. "Native's",wait a sec then count down from three. No answer or some sputtering and I hang up. Start with the spiel and I'm likely to stick my tongue in my lower lip and say "Will you be my friend?".
Don't like to mock but it's effective.
 
It's horrible....

Many of the robot calls I get are screwed up. They make the same noises, then hang up. I gotta learn how to block those calls. I reminds me of that scene in 'Airplane' where Robert Stack is assaulted by Hare Krishnas, Jerry's Kids, protestors for nuclear power, Reverend Moon and about a dozen others.

Some people actually remove me from their lists, but many don't. One time I got a call from a lady, told them to take my number off their list and a few seconds later the phone rang with some guy asking the same thing.
 
Got rid of my land line several years ago. Saves me $35 a month, and 10 ridiculous calls a day.

Instead of blocking incoming, you could turn the ringer volume down to 0.
 
Golddollar said:
The latest trick of telemarketers is to get phone numbers from your exchange to make you think you're being called by someone in your town. I have a connection with DirecTV that works with Caller ID that displays the phone number and caller for incoming calls right on the TV screen. I avoid just about all the calls from people I don't want to talk with in the first place.
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I've had an issue recently where the number the telemarketers are spoofing is actually in my contacts list, and it's somebody that I would automatically answer quickly. Now I have to let his calls go to voice mail . . .
 
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