I was the "best driver of the year" and the guy wanted info on my car before he told me I could save money with a better car insurance. I was curious to hear what the company was about, especially since he called before 7:30am and continuously said Florida, yet pronounced it F-LOR-I-DA. Please help me get this
HOW TO STOP UNSOLICITED CALLS TO YOUR LAND LINE PHONE:
I used to get three or four calls a day from this number. Caller ID says it's from "Auto Care." I never answer a call from a number I don't recognize, but I was getting around 10 - 12 scam calls a day from different numbers and area codes, and I've finally found a way to STOP most (95%) of them.
The majority of the scam calls you'll get are from automated dialers that dial numbers in a given area code ("robocalls"). After every call, the dialer indexes one digit and makes another call to the new number, and so on. When the dialer hears someone say, "Hello," or hears a message from an answering machine, it knows it's found a person, so it tags that number as "active" for future calls.
Here's what I did:
I pulled a random business card from a stack of contacts I keep in my desk, and called their fax number. Using a digital recorder (the one on your cell phone should work just fine), I recorded the fax tone for about 10 seconds (make sure your speaker phone is on when making the recording, and turn the volume down a little to avoid distortion). Then, I played the recorded fax tone (now turn the volume up on the recorded tone) and recorded it as my outgoing message on my answering machine.
I did this about two months ago and, after the first couple of weeks, the never-ending scam calls I was getting began dropping off significantly (I've only received two during the entire month of April, 2016!).
The robodialer now thinks your number is a fax machine, and won't bother calling again because there's no live person on the other end, and so it removes your number from the "active" list! As the list is passed on or sold to other scammers, your number will eventually disappear from their records.
This only works for land lines, and you'll have to take a little time and trouble to let your friends and family know about your new answering machine message (just tell them to wait for the beep), but the peace and quiet you'll get in return is worth it.
I hope this helps at least some of you out there!