Have you considered obtaining a call blocking device, app, or phone? Google (or your favorite search engine) IS your friend!
Realize that the Do Not Call list is NOT a call blocker!
Here are some tried and true methods for reducing or eliminating repeated spam / scam phone calls: Click on the Info link, below, to see them
InfoWant to stop repeated telescam phone calls?
Try these alternatives:
1. Do not answer the phone if you see an unknown number on your Caller ID ... let it go to answering machine or voicemail. Many telescammers hang up after three or four rings.
2. If you have a smartphone, get one of the inexpensive or free phone blocker apps at your online app store, and learn how to use it.
3. If your cell is not "smart", read the manual to learn how to set up a "group". Assign the scammer's phone number to that group. Also assign a "silent ring" to that group. You will not hear future calls from that number.
3a. Alternately, assign a "silent ringtone" as the DEFAULT ringtone. Then, assign your favorite ringtones to friends, family, contacts, businesses, etc. That way, you will not hear your phone ring, even if the scammer changes numbers! (Disadvantage: if you forget to whitelist somebody, you won't hear their calls, either)
4. For cell phones or landlines: Contact your phone service provider. They may have a facility or method to allow you to block numbers.
5. If you buy things online, you might want to google "phone blocker" to see what devices or apps Amazon or other sites have to offer for landlines or smartphones.
6. DO NOT call unknown numbers back without checking who called (800notes is your friend)! All that does is verify your number is "live". Instead, read this:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/one-ring-cel ... ing-your-wallet
If you want to report potential fraudulent or scam calls, here are two pages of links to (mostly government) sites in Canada and the USA were you can report those scams, or learn more about them.
Here are two pages of sites where you can report phone scams:
1. Look elsewhere on this page (probably to your right) for the Article, "Where to Report Phone Crime"
2. For a more frequently updated site, look here:
http://phonehelp.2truth.com/complaint_sites.html
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I was getting dozens of calls from this number and another insurance telemarketer so what I did was start calling them back over and over and over and over. I sat under my favorite shade tree one day with a cooler of beer and spent the whole day calling and when they would send me to voice mail I repeatedly read Green Eggs and Ham to them over and over and over. I had a manager call me and we agreed to stop calling each other. it worked.
I've been called several times. I answer, they ask if I have health insurance, I say stop calling me, they apologize then hang up. Today, I got a call this morning, said for them to stop calling me. They called back again few hours later, I told new person that I had already been called in the morning and that I had said to stop calling, she relentlessly,rudely kept repeating same question whether I had insurance or not, even after I demanded her not to call, she just kept saying she understood but repeated her question. I asked where the office was located, she said Florida, I then asked how so if the area code is from San Antonio, she then hung up. Freaks!!!!!