another scammer taking up minutes on my cell and also home phone so tired of these bs calls i am low income and disabled they even leave messages sometimes, or say nothing sometimes. i pray for a real person because i am going to blow a loud police whistle in the receiver the next time a human calls and blow their eardrums out! some times they say irs,debt collector . fraud investigator or telemarketer, microsoft, etc problem is i dont know how they get my cell # ihave told them not to call back but am also going to change my message to say something that this call is being tracked and recorded by the govt I dont give my cell # to anyone i dont want to call
Instead of doing ANY of that, especially using a whistle, you're best off setting up your phone to block unknown calls or letting it ring clear through with NO answer if possible. Numbers that have an answer will be called again, regardless if you blow whistles, gunfire, etc.,. No kind of answer begins to be a waste of time for them to call and they DO give up. Your answer as to how they got your number was answered by you. One simple answer can be passed along to other parties and they'll join in keeping your phone ringing. No kind of answer, you'll hear nothing at all.
Those of you that let the calls roll to your answering machine, voicemail or worse yet answered the call you have just ensured you will receive more of these calls. Maybe not from the same number, but they’ve just identified your number as valid which assures more calls of these 'faux telemarketer calls'. (I call them faux telemarketer calls as they are generally not legitimate telemarketers, but simply scams!) Most of the initial calls originate from software (aka; ‘robocalls’) – once your number is identified as active, then a real person may be there on the follow up calls. The majority of the calls are from a 'spoofed' number therefore the area code, exchange or even the entire number displayed on your caller ID probably does not accurately reflect the origin of a call.
If you have the capability to ‘BLOCK’ the number that called – that is the best action. Since 2010 I have logged and blocked nearly 600 of these nuisance calls.
If you don’t have a blocking option, keep a phone with caller ID close by and simply hit ‘talk’ and ‘off’ simultaneously. This will reduce the number of nuisance calls, but not stop them.
If you really want to block them – in addition to a number of cordless phones there are devices available that a layman can install.
So the message is simple – blocking works…. Using the aforementioned processes I seldom have a second call from a given number. But, when I do - I love it when "Number Blocked" shows on my 'Caller ID!!! (When they call repeatedly it causes me to wonder about how stupid some of these dummies really are!)
PS: I think Call Notes should add a 'Call Type' for 'Spoof' or 'Scammer Calls'!