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JPG

What happened to the national and state "no call lists?"

AIRI the purpose was to prevent entities from calling any one on the list UNLESS they had a previous relation with them and it was THEIR responsibility to check before cold calling.

It is that time of the year when "brokers" are inundating me with several calls daily re medicare annual REenrollment..

It is possible they are 'off shore' and the list is not enforcable?

I have had to resort to not answering any calls from a number that My phone does not have a name associated with it. I am sure this has caused missing calls I would have wanted to answer.

Grumble Grumble :mad:

Matanuska

Same here. The spam calls seem to come in waves. Not sure why. Anybody I know who wants to get a hold of me shows up on my caller id anyway. Don't answer 3/4 of our landline calls. Anyone else still have one?

BuckeyeDennis

I have a Google Pixel smartphone, and Pixels have a feature called "Call Screen" that has pretty much eliminated spam calls as a problem for me.

Here's how it works, at least as I have it configured. When a call comes in, the phone app first checks to see if the call is in your contact list. If it is, the call rings through immediately. But if the caller isn't in your contact list, a "Google assistant" voice will politely ask the caller to state the reason for the call before it attempts to connect you. Almost all spammers hang up at this point. But if it's a legit call, the caller will almost always give a reason for calling, at which point the phone app gives you the option to take the call. Or you can let it go to voice mail.

I find that legit calls from numbers not in my contact list are very rare. But when it happens, and if it's someone that I know or do business with, I'll add the caller to my contact list right away. Then the next time they call, it will ring straight through.

RFGuy

JPG,

I tried the various DO NOT CALL LISTS. There is the federal one and I think one or two other associations that have lists that supposedly try to disseminate your desire to the various marketing groups for large corporations. It helped a little when these first came out, in my experience, but then everyone just started to return to business as usual when they saw there was really no teeth behind the legislation. Also caller ID spoofing is rampant as well and easy to do masking the spammer. I used to have a landline and a cellular number. On both I would individually block each number which was time consuming, but somewhat effective. My solution now works fantastic for eliminating spam calls. I only have a cellphone now which happens to be an iPhone. I set it so that only phone numbers in my contact list ring my phone. Any phone numbers that dial me from outside of my contact list go straight to voicemail and few spam or legit companies seeking donations, etc. actually leave a voicemail - so I rarely know I received any spam calls anymore. Look for "Silence Unknown Callers" in Settings. So, I receive NO spam calls now. The only frustrating thing that happened A LOT this past fall was that I was inundated with political related text messages. I should have turned on the feature "Filter Unknown Senders" which should have stopped that. The only annoying thing with using these phone features if someone legitimate contacts you and they are NOT in your contact list then they get sent to voicemail so you have to hope they leave a message so you can call them back. For me, not a big deal and well worth it to cut out all of the distractions of spam phone calls. Hope this helps.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106

JPG

It would IF i had an iphone. ;)

RFGuy

JPG wrote It would IF i had an iphone. ;)

JPG,

Suggestion: IF you have a landline drop it. IF you have an Android phone, Dennis explained above how to do something similar on it to what I described on my iPhone. IF you don't have a landline or cellular phone and someone is spamming your tin can, then cut the string. ;)

GetterDone

JPG wrote What happened to the national and state "no call lists?"

AIRI the purpose was to prevent entities from calling any one on the list UNLESS they had a previous relation with them and it was THEIR responsibility to check before cold calling.

It is that time of the year when "brokers" are inundating me with several calls daily re medicare annual REenrollment..

It is possible they are 'off shore' and the list is not enforcable?

I have had to resort to not answering any calls from a number that My phone does not have a name associated with it. I am sure this has caused missing calls I would have wanted to answer.

Grumble Grumble :mad:

Yes :mad:

Especially when a Person is waiting on an Important Call.

I had an incident last weekend that required me to wait on a call from an Officer of the law.

Not my fault. :D this time ;)

There was property damage at my other shop.

I answered all calls and finally got the call I was waiting on today.

HopefulSSer

I used to have "Silence Unknown Callers" enabled on my iPhone -- it was great! But my stepdad passed away and my mom has dementia so now I'm handling things for her and getting calls from all kinds of numbers. I had to turn of silence unknown callers and the spam call floodgates are open again.

JPG

RFGuy wrote
JPG wrote It would IF i had an iphone. ;)
JPG,

Suggestion: IF you have a landline drop it. IF you have an Android phone, Dennis explained above how to do something similar on it to what I described on my iPhone. IF you don't have a landline or cellular phone and someone is spamming your tin can, then cut the string. ;)

There are other 'devices' other than a landline, android phone, iphone, string/tin can . . . that actually connect to the phone system for voice communication. They simply do not have all those fancy smancy 'features'. They are 'telephones'.

GetterDone

HopefulSSer wrote I used to have "Silence Unknown Callers" enabled on my iPhone -- it was great! But my stepdad passed away and my mom has dementia so now I'm handling things for her and getting calls from all kinds of numbers. I had to turn of silence unknown callers and the spam call floodgates are open again.

Sorry to hear of your Mom's dementia.

I have been through this with my wife's extended family.

A person just has to remember the Good times.

HopefulSSer

GetterDone wrote

Sorry to hear of your Mom's dementia.

I have been through this with my wife's extended family.

A person just has to remember the Good times.

Thank you. It's early stages still but it's been rough and I know it will only get worse :-(

RFGuy

JPG wrote There are other 'devices' other than a landline, android phone, iphone, string/tin can . . . that actually connect to the phone system for voice communication. They simply do not have all those fancy smancy 'features'. They are 'telephones'.

JPG,

IF you don't use a landline for a wired connection, then there is also VOIP, but most of these have features for blocking numbers. I used to have OOMA for VOIP. Actually cut my landline long, long ago and only in last few years cut my VOIP because it became tedious to block number by number. IF it isn't one of these, then please illuminate us as to what kind of phone you have. Dick Tracy watch??? There are many different, and independent phone systems today so I am afraid you have to be a bit more specific.

JPG

Think flip phone. Think landline(fiberoptic) with 760 Mhz internet.

RFGuy

JPG wrote Think flip phone. Think landline(fiberoptic) with 760 Mhz internet.

Nice. Hope you are not paying for phone service on that fiber link, i.e. hopefully it is included. I don't know your service, but often you have to individually block numbers on most landline (POTS, cable, fiber) type of services, which sucks as spammers have proliferated so much in recent years. Yeah, with a flip phone not many options either to curtail spammers. Sorry. Bummer. Not trying to talk anyone into an iPhone. I kind of equally hate iOS and Android these days and I wouldn't dare buy anything on Harmony OS (Chinese). Not many good choices in HW or SW these days for this technology IMHO. I digress. :(

JPG

Oh you would love the flip phone. Talk about spaghetti code. Reacts differently depending upon where you are in the software sequence. Some French product.

Yes the "landline" voice/data is bundled(recently replaced POTS/DSL originally USED). Unlimited voice/data - equal up/down load speed. So far I like it.

My consternation is WTH created a phone system with caller id that the 'caller' can manipulate the id?(spoof)

tmomrik

Sorry to tell you all this, but trying to stop calls with the federal do not call list is futile. It does not apply to preventing government agencies and as you probably noticed up until last month, political calls either. I have 40+ years experience working on telephone systems for both the federal government and private sector. Android and Google phones that have the call screening built in are your only options, or just let every number that's not in you contact list go to voicemail.

HopefulSSer

When I used to have I landline (long time ago) I used https://www.nomorobo.com It worked well. I presume it still does....

RFGuy

JPG wrote Oh you would love the flip phone. Talk about spaghetti code. Reacts differently depending upon where you are in the software sequence. Some French product.

Yes the "landline" voice/data is bundled(recently replaced POTS/DSL originally USED). Unlimited voice/data - equal up/down load speed. So far I like it.

My consternation is WTH created a phone system with caller id that the 'caller' can manipulate the id?(spoof)

JPG,

Trust me, I loved flip phones. I worked at a major company designing the RF transceivers at the transistor level that went into flip phones (hence my RFGuy handle)...this was in the era when flip phones were new on the market and all the rage. Sure, there has been a resurgence in a small part of the cellular market recently as some customers abandon smart phones and go back to a flip phone. Hey, come to think of it, this might be a marketing opportunity for Shopsmith. When can they release the "flip" motor to sell instead of the "smart" motor? :D

P.S. Do NOT buy a French flip phone. ;)

davebodner

HopefulSSer wrote When I used to have I landline (long time ago) I used https://www.nomorobo.com It worked well. I presume it still does....

I believe it's still working well for our landline. You get one ring, then the service somehow hangs up on the caller. It's free for landlines.

JPG

RFGuy wrote
JPG wrote Oh you would love the flip phone. Talk about spaghetti code. Reacts differently depending upon where you are in the software sequence. Some French product.

Yes the "landline" voice/data is bundled(recently replaced POTS/DSL originally USED). Unlimited voice/data - equal up/down load speed. So far I like it.

My consternation is WTH created a phone system with caller id that the 'caller' can manipulate the id?(spoof)
JPG,

Trust me, I loved flip phones. I worked at a major company designing the RF transceivers at the transistor level that went into flip phones (hence my RFGuy handle)...this was in the era when flip phones were new on the market and all the rage. Sure, there has been a resurgence in a small part of the cellular market recently as some customers abandon smart phones and go back to a flip phone. Hey, come to think of it, this might be a marketing opportunity for Shopsmith. When can they release the "flip" motor to sell instead of the "smart" motor? :D

P.S. Do NOT buy a French flip phone. ;)

Too Late! Hence my comment. And I thought spaghetti was Italian! Well at least I am paying Consumer Cellular rather than Ma Bell(AT&T) even though I travel the same path.