Am getting 30 - 40 calls daily from mostly Medicare pushers to the point of now turning off my phone from 8 until 7. That way I only have to block less than a few numbers and delete their records. But after a guessy 500 numbers blockings and deletions, still get the robotic calls, and when detect my human voice, a recorded message spits out, for later, perhaps a human talks with the finger ready on their hang-up button if I insult them.
Been told it is a Google thing that creates every time a different phone number for the caller and blocking does not work. Seems politicians and entities do not get these calls.

What do you know about ? Do you get them in U.S. ? Solutions ?

Yes, I have lost business turning my phone off to stop their annoying calls every few minutes.

 

Am getting 30 - 40 calls daily from mostly Medicare pushers to the point of now turning off my phone from 8 until 7. That way I only have to block less than a few numbers and delete their records. But after a guessy 500 numbers blockings and deletions, still get the robotic calls, and when detect a human voice, a recorded message spits out, for later, perhaps a human talks with the finger ready on their hang-up button if I insult them.
Been told it is a Google thing that creates every time a different phone number for the caller and blocking does not work. Seems politicians and entities do not get these calls.

What do you know about ? Do you get them in U.S. ? Solutions ?

Yes, I have lost business turning my phone off to stop their annoying calls every few minutes.

My friend gets them also, and he has a google phone, but I have an Iphone and it seems to do well at blocking numbers, as soon as I get one I block it.

I don’t get them for days then one or two and gone.

Good Luck,

kv

 

I never get these calls, guess I'm lucky.

 

Been told it is a Google thing that creates every time a different phone number for the caller and blocking does not work.

I doubt it's a Google thing. The callers simply spoof a number and that is why blocking a number really doesn't work. My old landline house phone gets maybe a few per day and they show up as "Spam Risk" and my cell phone I only see maybe one call a week if that. I never take the calls and figure anyone who knows me will leave a message. Problems begin when your number gets out in the wild. Sadly there is no simple solution.

Something you can try is let the phone ring and go into voicemail. Start your outgoing voicemail with a three tone sequence. You have heard the sequence before when you get a Not in Service number. These are the tones. One theory is when the calling system hears those tones it will disconnect and drop the number from its call list. The tones I linked to are in correct timing and duration and download as a zip file. Since I have never tried this I have no clue if it will work or not.

Ron

 

I get none on my cell, maybe 5-10 day on the land line. If I am feeling mean, I try to see how long I can keep them on the line while giving out no info. Sometimes it goes something like this:

Caller: I am calling from Medicare, have you received your new Medicare card?

Me: I have a card, I don’t need a new one.

Caller: We are sending new cards to everyone. If you haven’t received it, give me your Medicare number and we wilil send another one.

Me: If you are from Medicare, you have my number, why don’t you tell me what it is?

Caller: [hang up]

Edited: The lovely wife Morticia just got one of these calls. The Caller said “F***-you after she refused to give any info. She replied “You said F***”, Medicare doesn’t say that!”. He hung up.

 

I used to get a constant barrage of out-of-the-blue sales calls. Then I moved out of the United States and in the nearly 25 years since the move I might have received two telemarketing messages.

 

Am getting 30 - 40 calls daily from mostly Medicare pushers to the point of now turning off my phone from 8 until 7.

I don't answer our landline unless I recognize the number. My Wife still picks up because sometimes caller ID is wrong (some legitimate callers were listed as a city) and she gets calls from medical providers for her mother who lives next door. She started telling the Medicare scammers that I was dead and that seemed to cut down on those calls. Mostly, we used the landline answering machine to screen calls. The scammers rarely leave messages...

On my cellphone, which I usually only carry when I'm away from home, I only answer numbers that I recognize. I get the occasional scammer who leaves a message.

All of our phone numbers are on the Do Not Call list.

 

Back in the early 1990s, it got so that I was receiving more than two-dozen telemarketing calls every evening. I would sometimes be bored enough that I would try to see how long I could keep them on the line before they ended the call. My record was forty-five minutes. I figured I was providing a public service -- time spent talking to me was time they didn't spend harassing someone else. But, aside from that, it was a real nuisance dealing with them.

When I got a phone line activated in a sleeping room I lived in the late 1980s, I got calls next Saturday morning from both Denver metro papers, both asking how I was enjoying my new apartment. When I asked them where they got my information from, they both insisted that it was random dialing. Huh? So, they dial random phone numbers and just happen to ask whomever answers how they like their new apartment???

When I moved to Colorado Springs in 1995, I lived in a rented townhome for a month while I was waiting to close on the one I was buying. I hadn't planned on getting a phone there, but I ended up needing one in order to submit some PCBs for fabrication (this was back in the days of dial-up bulletin boards). But when I talked to the phone company, the charge to connect and then disconnect the line were more than I was willing to pay for just a couple weeks service, so I told them to forget it. But I had left my phone plugged into the jack and later that night I got a telemarketing call from someone trying to sell me a subscription to the local paper -- but they addressed me by name and welcomed me to my new home! I actually had to get them to give me my phone number, since I hadn't gotten that far with the phone company. When I called the phone company, they insisted that they don't give or sell information to marketers and went on about how they must have gotten it from my bank or a credit card company. Of course, they couldn't explain how they could have gotten my name and phone number and the fact that it was a new phone line given that I was unaware that I even had a phone line and didn't know what the number was!

In 2002, it was pretty unbearable. Non-step telemarketing calls. Then the Colorado No Call list went into effect and, though skeptical, I added my number to the registry. I was surprised that the calls basically stopped -- maybe one or two a month. It's crept up since as places have realized that it has little actual teeth (though apparently more than the National No Call list that went into effect about a year later). Today, on the landline, we get two or three calls a week. On my cell phone, I usually get three or four a month, though there have been sprints where it got bad -- the vehicle warranty crowd was calling me multiple times a day for several weeks about a decade ago, but then that suddenly stopped and I don't really know why. There was a major enforcement action taken in 2023 against them, but my experience was from back in the 2018 time frame.

My wife gets a lot more telemarketing calls (as well as spam e-mail), but she is a lot looser with who she gives her phone number and e-mail address to. I am absolutely paranoid, to the point of actually reading the Privacy Policy of any site before I give out that information and frequently refuse to give it if I don't like what I see. As a result, I get maybe half a dozen spam e-mails a month, despite having no anti-spam filters and despite having this same e-mail address for nearly three decades. But it's a fragile situation because all it takes is one misstep that gets my information out into the wild.

As for not accepting calls from unknown numbers, that's not an option for me. I have a wife and a teenage daughter and if either of them ever needs to call me from someone else's phone because she needs help, I am not going to risk missing that call. That policy paid off when I got a call one day from an unknown number and it was my wife, who had just rolled her car twice in a blizzard and was calling using a passing motorist's phone because her phone was lost out in the field somewhere, having flown through the windshield (well, where the windshield had been). The crash was violent enough that it ejected the car's battery through the hood (bent the corner of the hood up, the hood itself stayed latched). She got a slight punctured lung out of the deal, but was otherwise just bruised -- thank you for seatbelts! So, when that phone rings, I answer it. If it's a telemarketer, the experience usually isn't too pleasant for them.

On the other hand, when I was twenty, I did score a date with a very attractive and sweet young lady that made a telemarketing call that turned into a prank call when she thought she had gotten the wrong number. But that's another story.

 

But that's another story.

Can't wait to hear read it ...

 

Thank you TPS (Telephone Preference Scheme). In Britain you can opt of out telemarketing calls.

 

Who and how anyone knows that a number belongs to a telemarketer if not after you reported them?

 

Wasting scammers time:

 

Can't wait to hear read it ...

Only if @Externet wants to see it -- it's his thread and it would be off-topic.

 

Just don't get into an accident while reaching for your card.