Spam calls are a pain in the you-know-what! Once you get one, it seems like hundreds follow.
How often do you get robocalls (spam calls)? All the time? Sometimes? Never? If you answer never, please share your secrets – we get way too many!
How often, on average, do you get robocalls (spam calls)?
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Should have been an option for a few times a week, but since it is closer to daily than never I choose daily. Beyond the calls is the texts, ugh. I don’t need an extended warranty, male enhancement, or a get rich quick scheme.
Home line gets 3-4 a day. Cell, none. It’s set to ignore numbers not in my contact list.
I had my phone set to that and when the sheriff came to my house because of a call for a theft at my home, and due to COVID (contactless ) they called my phone twice and the spam filter rejected them because they were calling from a blocked number. So I missed them trying to get ahold of me. I was so surprised.
The most I’ve gotten was 11 in a 10 hour period, most of the time it averages 1 per hour
I’ve found if you answer(open the connection) but don’t say anything, the computer that dials the number hangs up in 10-12 seconds. If not and some woman starts her spiel I say my wife does not appreciate strange women calling me and she’s about to snatch you through this phone and severely beat you. I usually hear a click before I finish, then I block the number.
I have been getting spam text about 2 or 3 times a week.
We get them a few times a week. They seem to come in clusters. We may not get them for a month and then 3 in a week. We talk to them and are annoying.
Lately, they are coming in clusters. Seems like when we don’t answer the first call, about 30 seconds later another call with a different name, but the same number comes through, or the same name and different number.
This time of year, I think most are calls about Medicare enrollment.
And for the most part, the calls are in the late afternoon, early evening, when most people are home from work.
My home phone is through Comcast and they are now showing that these are probable spam calls on the caller ID.
I’d like to propose a solution and help with the deficit. Ha Ha Ha (I know). Anyway, since we can’t outlaw the practice of preying on people, maybe Congress could tax them by the call. If there are enough congressman not using robocalling already, pass a bill taxing the practice XX cents per robo call. Done right, they would either have to hire people or cease to operate, thus providing some benefit to society.
That would a great solution if…the call centers were based in the US. They gotta find’em before they can tax them or close them down.
Oh, believe me, the government is already getting their share of the revenue from those calls. All the service providers are paying exorbitant rates for every call they process to good ole uncle sam.
Google phone has a rather neat function. Unknown number calls, hit button, it sends them a text requiring name and reason for call. If they do not reply, and they don’t, it is set for blocking.
Yeah, that’s what we use. Nice feature. But they still keep calling…
If you are on the actual PIXEL devices, it auto blocks and screens a lot of the calls based on what Google knows about the caller. And if it gets through all that it often is flagged as “Suspected Spam” in big red letters as it rings.
That I’m even aware of there are 1-2 calls a day google is screening for me. Maybe 1-2 per week where I use the manual google screening. I suspect there are other well known spam calls that I’m never made aware of.
It works well for me.
I get them several times a day. Since I do receive work calls on my phone, I don’t have unknown calls blocked. I just hide the call and see if they leave a message that tries to tell me about my warranty – then I block and delete.
I wish there were a way to catch and fine those behind this annoyance.
If it is a female, I breathe heavily and fast, and ask them what are they wearing…I get a hang up. If it is a male, I go on a lengthy diatribe about my Spam recipes, they hang up.
“Never or almost never” because my phone is set to block unknown callers. Only on the rare occasions when I have to allow all calls because I’m expecting one from an unknown number do I get . . . warranty offers.
We are on a no-call list that seems to work most of the time…
I now have a program on my iPhone that blocks Spam calls. I am alerted each time one
tries to connect and I am on the DO NOT CALL registry…I guess that doesn’t matter.
A while back I accidentally answered a call from COMCAST….yeah right. The guy on the line warned me my PC was sending messages to Comcast that I had viruses and he was calling to help. I said, in a panicked voice, O M G what do I do. He told me to open my windows. I told him to hold on and put the phone down for a minute. I picked it back up and said okay I opened all my windows and I don’t understand how bugs flying into my house will help. He hung up.
I have a call blocking app.
On our cell phones all of the robo/spam calls are blocked. However we still have a router (not hard line that works on the road in our coach) house phone, probably not for long. We do not pick up the phone unless we know the party on the other line. But when I feel bored I do pick up the phone. If it is a robo call I just hang up. If there is a live person on the line and it is a spam call I play a game with them.
I quickly find out who they want to talk to, Sandy or myself or anyone. As soon as they say anything I yell to a fake person inside the house “Don’t move the body!” Then I ask the person on the phone what relationship they have with the deceased. When they say anything at all I just say “You have their phone number and asked to speak to (so and so) and I need to know what relationship you have with the deceased”. Quick hang ups are normal. Stay safe, Stay well.
😆 Good one, Dick! Have a great day. 🙂 –Diane
Luckily, we moved from one state to another & kept our cell numbers. Calls from our former state are spam. If we knew them, we’d see more than the number & they’d leave a real message that didn’t start in middle (robo calls don’t wait for the end of the outgoing message to start in yammering).
I’m getting more and more spam text messages that show an email address instead of a number. I delete these immediately, but with no number I can’t block them.
I wish I could track the call and return the favor in the middle of their sleep😠😠
More like a few a week. Had my iPhone set to block/silence unknown numbers, but dealing with some medical things for my mother and I’m having to answer every call as you can’t tell if spam or not.
I now never answer my phone unless I’m positive of who is calling….otherwise I just let it go to voicemail. If they don’t leave a voicemail, then I simply block that number. Of course, the scammers have probably an infinite number of them to use.
Even on the no-call list, we still get calls?
The robo callers call a number and then increment the last number by one and so on. The no call list is a joke, it is not used.
That’s why I still pay for a land line. I use that number for businesses that require it. The phone has an answering machine, the messages are transcribed and go to my email account. I never answer that phone, the ringer is turned off. I only give our cell phone number to actual humans I know and trust. As a result, all SPAM goes to the land-line, and I never get any on our cell phones. Works like a charm. My email is the same way. One for online businesses, one for actual humans I know in-person. No SPAM on the “human” account, but plenty on yahoo.mail.
Having just retired from the telecom industry, I can tell you robocalls will always be around. The ‘No Call’ list only affects US based callers. The majority of calls come from
India/Pakistan or Mexico/Central America over VoIP (so the calls are dirt cheap). They can program whatever numbers into the server, even one of the numbers they had just called that looks legit. There are several programs that you can put on a smartphone that pull incoming calls against a database, (I’ve been using the TMo ScamShield and it seems effective) but it needs a newer phone on GSM (which allows both data and voice calls over VoLTE – usually on 4G). One thing you can do is be judicious on sharing your private information. People share their info on websites, contests, and other places which in turn can ‘seel them to their partners’. That said, random dialers will probably get you anyway.
You should have included the option of “about every other or third day”. For some reason I just thankfully don’t get spam calls daily.
Give me your number, maybe I can help! LOL
I get 4-5 calls a day, sometimes local sometimes from other cities, about obamacare and 100% (not kidding or exaggerating are from Colombia, I go by accent) and as soon as I ask information about their company they hang up. With me, it started when I posted my small business company on yelp. I been very calm and courteous and asked to be removed from call list,, nope. This has been going on for almost 8-9 months. I press 2 when asked to be removed from call list, nope. I been extremely rude and cussed them out, nope. I have t-mobile scam shield and it works almost 40% of the time. They use real people’s names too. Also ghost/clone people’s numbers when I call back some one answers at a construction site saying I missed a call from this number and told me they didn’t call me I sent them a screenshot forward the voice mail from their number and they freak out. MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION, HOW DO YOU STOP THESE CALLS?? PLEASE COMMENT!!
Was getting a bunch each day. One day I got 20 ish calls within a couple hours. I copied them with my phone app and sent them to the attorney general’s office for our state. They since have slowed way down.
My wife and I are both over 65 years old and right now we’re getting 5-6 calls a day just for Medicare supplement insurance. Then there are all those alleged charities that no one has heard of or knows anything about. I would install robo blocker but I have a couple groups that uses “call-em-all” to send updates, reminders, and etc and it would block them as well.
I get robo calls sometimes one a day sometimes 3 or 4. If I don’t recognize the number I let it go to voice mail. If no message is left I mark the call as spam and block it.
I voted for “once or twice a day,” but it isn’t quite that often. Lately they seem to come in clusters. The your-warranty-on-your-car-is-expiring-and-you-need-to-buy-an-extension-from-us calls have stopped. Most recently was four your-social-security-number-has-been-frozen-because-you-are-a-bad-person calls in a single day. I blocked the number associated with each call and they eventually tired (?) and the calls stopped.
Use to get 6-7 a day. I blocked those numbers and continued and they have lessened to 1-2 daily. Like others if it doesn’t come up with a name attached with the number and or no message (voice mail) I block and delete. I don’t have time.
I made the mistake of taking the landline number when we discontinued it & I transferred the number to my cell. BIG mistake! I’ve set my privacy settings so only my ‘favorites’ ring through. BEST HACK EVER!
Actually, if I keep my iPhone set correctly, I get none, but then I sometimes have to change the setting if I have contacted a new business, because they never seem to call back on the line I used to contact them. I now get some that are listed as “Spam Risk”, which I just don’t accept. I wonder how many surveys I have missed ???