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PHONE RANT!

grdad45grdad45 Member Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2017 in General Discussion
Is there any way to stop those annoying spam calls on my cell phone? Sometimes 8-10 a day! I don't answer if I don't recognize the number, and have told my friends to leave a message if I don't answer their calls. Been on the DO NOT CALL LIST for 13 years, doesn't seem to make a difference. I'd like to strangle the *&^%%$ for their trouble. [:(!]
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you and me BOTH....11 yrs and state and fed no call....mailed my state rep if he could legislate a way to get em off in a week he could get re elected with 99% of the vote even if he were dead
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  • 84Bravo184Bravo1 Member Posts: 10,461 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My phone has a "Blacklist" option.

    If it is a # I do not recognize, it gets added to the "Blacklist."

    One call, and your done.

    I do not answer #'s I do not recognize.

    Too bad, so sad.
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  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Most current cell phones have some sort of blocking feature, but sometimes it takes some digging around deep in the features to find it. Different carries may also offer blocking features which are independent of the phones operating system.

    Basically, it is now up to you. The Do Not Call List still works; you'll virtually never get an unwanted call form a legitimate business. The issues are always with those firms who just don't care ("Catch me if you can"), or boiler room centers with disposable cell phones, or worst of all; call centers which are off shore and impossible to stop.

    Everyone has been driven to distraction to the point that almost no one will pick up the phone any longer.
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  • oldrideroldrider Member Posts: 4,934 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    What chaps my butt most is the fake numbers they can put on caller ID!
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  • remingtonoaksremingtonoaks Member Posts: 26,245 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is against the law for telemarketers to call a dedicated law-enforcement Phone.

    That's said, dedicated could mean just a phone that you use to call a law inforcement agency in an emergency.

    Once you inform the telemarketer that they called a dedicated law-enforcement phone. It is a felony for them to call it again. It didn't take very long using this tactic to stop all telemarketer calls to my phone.

    A friend of mine that is a police officer told me this. I asked him if I said that, wouldn't that be considered impersonating a police officer? He said no, as long as you would call for help from a police officer in an emergency from that phone, it makes It a dedicated law-enforcement use phone
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    Today I got 4 calls (two each from two different people) from the same recruiting firm that employs folks that have no idea where Redmond, WA is in relation to Spokane. But that's microsoft's fault really. They use these stupid firms all the time to beg and plead talent to come work for them.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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  • roswellnativeroswellnative Member Posts: 10,195 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I once nicely asked that they take my number off the list and this Indian guy said
    Go f yourself and I though his accent made that phrase so fing funny.
    A high pitched go f yourself. back to Calcutta with you!
    Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Got one a few days ago. Some red dot Indian *. Asked her to stop calling, so she just kept talking. She let out this gasping sound when I told her that if she kept it up, I was going to pull a Trump on her, and grab her by the *, but I didn't want my hands smelling like curry. [:I]
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i remember many years ago driving by a motel 25 miles north of here ..every door was open and a marketing bunch were going hot...a sign advertised jobs at $2.50 an hour
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  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290 ✭
    edited November -1
    Download Avast! antivirus. They have a 1200-number "blacklist" that you can fill up. And it's free.
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  • Missouri Mule K30Missouri Mule K30 Member Posts: 2,092 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I had a scam call about the irs needing me to settle my tax account and they were coming with the police to come and get me. I said please do not do that and I would pay by credit card "if that was ok".
    In a foreign voice that I could hardly understand, yez, yez that wood be good. I said that I remember my card number by letters so here it comes if you can understand. S-o-g-o-f-?-?-k-y-o-u-r-s-e-l-f

    She started laughing and I said do you understand and that the federal police where outside your mudhut, click.[:D]
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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's why all these annoying calls go to my home phone. Don't give my cell phone number out to anyone other then friends. Don't even give it to my doctor. Call me at home talk to the answering machine because I won't talk to you.
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If a call comes in unrecognized. There is no voice mail. I put it on the block list.
    Its a option on most cell phones.

    And yes put all your numbers in the do not call registry.
    "What is truth?'
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