Unwanted Phone Calls On Land Lines

So, 3 or so years ago, I posted this thread about my call blocker, which I still have and is still working great (if you're interested: https://forums.majorgeeks.com/threads/unwanted-phone-call-blocker.283444/#post-1874059)

In more recent news, as everyone knows, it is incredibly easy to spoof a phone number and make spam/scam calls to people on their landlines. And yes, some of us actually do still have landlines. I actually like having it because it's what I give to retailers and any other company I need to provide a phone number to.

I just got a surprisingly pleasant email from Verizon, who is our provider, about 2 day ago:

For anyone who wants the link to their info, this is it: https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/consumer-education/robocalls.htm

I am so excited they have finally taken action and one of the most notable things I learned was about this company, which I joined and enabled on my phone called Nomorobo. Sadly, you have to have a digital line, but it supports a lot of phone companies and it's free for landlines. You can set it up on your cell phone as well if you get a lot of calls on there. You have to pay for the app though.

 

We have a land line....but they keep calling. So we just use an answering machine and most just disconnect when it answers.

 

That didn't bother me too much a few years back when there wasn't much spoofing and the national Do Not Call list worked, but it just got to be way too much listening to the phone ring constantly with bogus calls.

To me it's like spam email. People say ignore it, but it annoys me too much so I'd rather find ways to block junk like that...including the ringing phone.

The good thing about Verizon and hopefully other carriers, are that they are now stopping the robocalls before they come through, which is great. I've definitely noticed a decrease in my phone ringing.

 

With my carrier, you have to manually list each incoming robo-call. PITA.

 

We haven't noticed a decrease in annoying calls. Perhaps the ones where really idiots talk don't count.

In fact a few minutes ago, my husband picked up and because we are "loyal customers" (of whom?, that's never mentioned) we won a free cruise. He didn't say a word and the gal on the other end just kept on talking. He hangs on just to keep her tied up so she can't bother others for a few minutes.

Me, I either don't answer or hang up as soon as I know it is an unwanted call.

 

I know they can be a PITA Laura, get them here although since using http://home.bt.com/tech-gadgets/tec...rvice-crackdown-nuisance-calls-11364136279348 similar to your Verizon one but for BT users in UK, we;ve seen a 90% drop in these calls.

Wether the option to add a number while useful the same spam callers use various numbers but at least its stopping some more. I get one in work all the time that calls asking for "Angela Walsh" can be for electricity, gas, mobile phones, broadband etc, one for electricity I told them yeah lets see what you can do, you could hear the beaming smile until I told him he'd have to supply a UK Gov dept and we trace all calls, **click** hung up, damn inconsiderate.

 

From what I saw, I do believe it's just robocalls.

haha...that's brilliant. It totally sounds legit.

Good to see that the phone companies are taking this seriously. I'd imagine they have lost a good number of phone lines to the cell industry.

lol...well, I don't believe I have an answer for you. It would certainly take care of the crap robocalls if you got rid of it.

 

We get robocalls where the tape plays into our answering machine - it plays whether someone picks up or not. It doesn't even wait until "at the sound of the beep please leave your message" to start.