Easier and simpler just to ignore the phone calls, very effective. I only "think big," when thinking big is the best choice. As for DMA, we're addressing scam calls here, not my US mailbox. I don't want to block entire area codes, because lots of people move nowadays but don't change their old phone numbers. I do volunteer work of an emergent nature, and people need to be able to reach me. So "thinking big" would be overkill, it would exclude people in emergent situations who need me. And as I said previously: if I blocked a number, they'd just spoof new ones to get under my radar again, so it's still more effective to just ignore the specific number a scammer already uses. "Better the devil you know, than the devil you don't" as the Irish say. Only good guys check with DMA, criminals operate outside the law and don't consult the DMA or DNC; that's unfortunate, because I wish the good guys could be rewarded somehow for heeding DNC, but we will never be able to do that. I firmly believe that simpler and elegant is better in life, and it doesn't get any simpler than peeking at my CID and/or eavesdropping on my call screening feature, and simply ignoring the call. I don't want to end up playing whack-a-mole by blocking. I actually get very few scam calls because screening and ignoring works. This scammer will fade away, too.
Debra, I've never found a way to stop these calls, they all share lists with each other. It would be like trying to prevent junk mail from being delivered to your U.S. Mailbox! I ignore these scammers and they each eventually decrease. You'll get pretty good at recognizing the CIDs of probable scammers, and this website can validate your decision. I don't have a blocking program, and I feel that if I blocked their number, they would just spoof another number and keep getting under my radar once each time, like whack-a-mole at the state fair. Easiest, and costs nothing, is to just ignore and outlast them. I can recognize this one's phone number and I ignore it. Simple is always best, I feel. I just came here to make entries so others would know about it, as you did. They usually decrease, but there are always others to take their place. It's just the way things are, nowadays: loss of human decency. But what your entry tells me is that my first guess was right: they aren't assigning specific suffixes to each target, it was just that no one else had complained here yet, but me. Thanks for adding your comments, I appreciated it. I came again today because they called again today. They can't hurt us unless we give them personal information, so don't answer.
They're just little gnats with simplistic, irritating scams; only a few calls, like the new "yes scam," surprised me because they were a bit more clever, but I learned, and now I never say "yes" when a robocaller asks me a yes/no question.
FYI using a call blocker makes a big difference-you just have to think BIG picture when setting it up (like blocks of numbers and area codes).
Also FYI, you can control junk mail to a certain degree. Go to: https://dmachoice.thedma.org/index.php
It's the Direct Mail Association website where you can choose to be on a mail list or not-take a look at it.
Easier and simpler just to ignore the phone calls, very effective. I only "think big," when thinking big is the best choice. As for DMA, we're addressing scam calls here, not my US mailbox. I don't want to block entire area codes, because lots of people move nowadays but don't change their old phone numbers. I do volunteer work of an emergent nature, and people need to be able to reach me. So "thinking big" would be overkill, it would exclude people in emergent situations who need me. And as I said previously: if I blocked a number, they'd just spoof new ones to get under my radar again, so it's still more effective to just ignore the specific number a scammer already uses. "Better the devil you know, than the devil you don't" as the Irish say. Only good guys check with DMA, criminals operate outside the law and don't consult the DMA or DNC; that's unfortunate, because I wish the good guys could be rewarded somehow for heeding DNC, but we will never be able to do that. I firmly believe that simpler and elegant is better in life, and it doesn't get any simpler than peeking at my CID and/or eavesdropping on my call screening feature, and simply ignoring the call. I don't want to end up playing whack-a-mole by blocking. I actually get very few scam calls because screening and ignoring works. This scammer will fade away, too.
... So I satisfied an immature whim and messed with their heads every time I was home and they called, last week. I asked them where they were from each time, and they said the Phillipines (the most popular), the Caribbean, and one sounded like he came from an East European block country. Not gonna answer any more, the game got boring. If I had continued to ignore them, they might be fading away by now. Gonna go back to acting like an adult... chuckle.
Just remember, they are using a spoofed number, and also ignoring DNC, both indicating criminals, and trying to sell us mediocre medical braces... or using that as an excuse to steal from you and no braces there at all. They're criminals. They will fall by the wayside eventually, as all these calls do, now that I'm ignoring them again.
Always more in the wings to take their place. I don't care how sad their situation may or may not be: no one has the right to steal from you, rather than earn their own way with their own honest sweat, as you've all done. You don't owe them the time of day. Sad that some people forget the law of returns, karma, that what goes around, comes back around.