I've just started to answer the phone and immediately started talking sanity nasty things I want them to put in my anus. The calls stop if you keep the charade up for every call for a month. It's actually gotten fun to creep them out. Lol
And my answering machine is muted. At the end of the day I see the caller id flashing, but the message light is not flashing. I never block numbers, because the scammers have millions of spoofed numbers they can make up. I never hear the phone ring on my land line and friends text me on my cell which no one else knows. Problem solved!! Sorry telemarketers, you lose, call all you want. Hahahahahah!!!!