The Sales Calls Have Taken Over Our Land Line

If you have Nomorobo and a telemarketing call still gets through, report it to the FTC. Nomorobo compiles its list from numbers in the FTC do not call list. New numbers are added on an ongoing basis. 

https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.aspx

What's a land line?

That thing those of us have whose cell phones still don't ring or work well in our homes.

I just received another one on my cell number and asked my wife if she gets as many as I do, and she said she barely gets any.

I get the same 3 or 4 callers but from all different numbers.  I get at least 5 per day from the first 3 or 4 listed below.  They start as early as 7 a.m. and go as late as 9 p.m.  My landline only gets 1 or 2 per day.

They are:  

1) This is a public service announcement, regarding your electric bill.  Its about switching providers for cleaner and cheaper electricity.

2)  This is Rachel with members card services.  This is if you have over 4k in credit cards they can do something.  Never stated on long enough to hear how.

3) Hi I am calling because you recently stayed one of our resorts.  I hang up at that point because we haven't been on a vacation for at least 5 years.

4) NJ solar solutions..

5) State PBA looking for a donation.  This one doesn't come every day, but enough for me to remember.  This one I play with and say - I try to support them, every time one of them  pulls me over I offer them a bribe but most don't take it.  By the time they realized what I said I hang up. 

We have NoMoRoBo on our landline and it effectively shuts down robo-calls after one ring. Unfortunately it does not block human dialed nuisance calls which have increased notably in the past few months, perhaps due to NoMoRoBo. As for our cell phones, the numbers of un-wanted /nuisance calls have really become a huge PITA! I've tried every app available to block them but none work for very long. The spammers use of ever changing spoof numbers seems to have both my attempts to block them and all the call block systems stymied. So....I have simply shut off the ringer and check the received calls periodically to see if there were any calls I want to answer. The phone services, so far have done nothing except to suggest trying a variety of block apps that I should pay extra for....Grrrrrrrrr.

Soul_29 said:

What's a land line?

It’s that device you’d always see Dan Warthen talking into after the third inning.

(This thread is outside the Commish’s jurisdiction, isn’t it?)

I have been getting the same calls that Eric has been getting.  I signed up for nomorobo years ago - one thing I just noticed when logging in to my Verizon Voice account is that there was a Nomorobo section that wasn't activated.  So, if you signed up for it years ago - you may have to double check to see if it's set up properly.

the energy company/electric spam calls are out of control. I find them impossible to block because they come from all over the US from different numbers every time. It’s a recording so if you pick it up, there’s no one to tell to stop calling. And you can’t call back to those #s.  I must get 20 calls a day in this scam. Has anyone successfully resolved?

conandrob240 said:

the energy company/electric spam calls are out of control. I find them impossible to block because they come from all over the US from different numbers every time. It’s a recording so if you pick it up, there’s no one to tell to stop calling. And you can’t call back to those #s.  I must get 20 calls a day in this scam. Has anyone successfully resolved?

NoMoRobo catches most of those for us.

okay, I’ll try. Thank you 

Nomorobo took care of that for me, too. Before, that is, I took really drastic measures and ditched my landline for google voice.

It’s kind of a shame I didn’t know about the weird trick you can do to switch to google voice and keep your number, but I have to say I get less spammy phone calls in general thanks to my new one.