Ya, just received like 10 calls in 3 hrs. Told them to take me off the list but they hang up quick. Annoying.

kv

 

Ya, just received like 10 calls in 3 hrs. Told them to take me off the list but they hang up quick. Annoying.

kv

Almost certainly NOT Medicare, but a scammer. No way to stop it that I know of. You would think that scammers would have no interest in repeatedly calling someone that has made it clear that they aren't going to fall for the scam, but it costs so little for each call that they just don't seem to care.

 

just received like 10 calls in 3 hrs. Told them to take me off the list but they hang up quick. Annoying.

SPAM calls are so bad that I rarely answer our landline and I rarely answer unrecognized numbers on my cellphone.

Telling the Medicare scammers that the person they're calling for died seems to work.

 

When someone calls representing themself as someone they are not, I ask them for my account number. That usually shuts them up.

Edit to add: And if someone asks me for a credit card number, I ask for theirs. It usually continues like this:

Them: Why would I do that, I don’t jnow who you are?

Me: You know more about m than I do about you, you know my name and telephone number.

 

SPAM calls are so bad that I rarely answer our landline and I rarely answer unrecognized numbers on my cellphone.

I'd love to take that approach, but with a wife and daughter (especially one that gets her driver's license next month) it's not an option. I have to allow for the possibility that one of them is calling me in a dire situation. Actually happened several years ago when I got a call from an unknown number. When I answered it, is was my wife. She had rolled her car twice in a blizzard on the highway and was calling using a passerby's phone because her phone had flown out of the car when the windshield went. It was a sufficiently violent event that the battery was ejected through the hood (bent the corner of the hood up on it's way out -- the hood itself remained latched). I will ALWAYS answer EVERY call -- but that means that I am pretty no-holds-barred when it's a scammer or a telemarketer.

I don't know if it's the new rules that the federal government laid out not too long ago, or some other factor, but I haven't gotten a single unwanted call on either the landline or my cell phone in at least two months. Holding my breath hoping that trend continues.

 

Actually happened several years ago when I got a call from an unknown number.

I tried to get my wife to call and let the phone ring once, hang up, wait a few seconds, and then call again. She won't do it, so I don't answer... She texts me on my cellphone and I'll check my phone if she's overdue (I rarely carry my cellphone when I'm home and it's always on vibrate). I have my phone linked to my computer, so I'll see the text if I'm using the computer.

 

I tried to get my wife to call and let the phone ring once, hang up, wait a few seconds, and then call again. She won't do it, so I don't answer...

I'm not going to rely on someone remembering to use some protocol for how to get me to answer when they are in a highly stressful, and possibly dire, situation. We each have to set our boundaries. For me, personally, I'm willing to put up with the spammers and marketers if that's the price of knowing that I will never have to live with the knowledge that my little girl was desperately trying to reach out to her dad and I chose to be unavailable when she needed me most. I don't know that that would be a guilt I could recover from.

 

I called the number they answered, he said hi kay, I said take me off your list, I told the last person that and ignored me.

No more calls since.

kv

 

Take that back just got another one. Ignored it.

kv