Press # once, then immediately press # again and HOLD. The caller will receive a loud ringing in their ear, and if it is a Robo call will be broken at once.
Just keep it up until they give up.
Hire Tom Mabe?
Try plugging this recording in your answering machine, LOL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yU5Ekv14U&feature=related
I went throught the “don’t call” years ago.
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I think DNC has to be renewed every so many years. Not sure but maybe someone else knows.
I sometimes unplug the phone, then just use it for FAX and voice-mail. It really pi$$es me off.
Process for eliminating a large number of junk calls:
#1 - call a number that is disconnected and no longer in service. Record the tone that you hear when you connect to the recording.
#2 - record your home message service with that tone as the very first sound. Wait two seconds (a must) and then record your message normally.
#3 - Tell your family and friends that you are going to be screening your calls for the next couple of weeks due to the volume of junk calls
#4 - Let every single call go to your answering machine
Panasonic (and some other) phones have a Call Block feature. We’ve been overwhelmed with political calls and have found this feature to be very useful.
we get a lot too
With unknown numbers I answer the phone with the following: “Attoney General’s Office. Can I have your name and address?”
I’ve been successful reducing the number of calls.
Saw a story online about how one man deals with these calls. Told my husband about it. Within moments our phone rings. Husband answers and it’s a solicitor. Husband began the routine I had just told him about and it worked like a charm. Husband played the part of a police investigator. He told the caller he had just called a murder scene. Then asked how did you know the person you were calling. Why were you calling? What’s your name, address, phone number. We might need to contact you for further interview. Husband had all the solictor’s info within moments and no further calls from that solicitor. We still laugh about it!
There are two kinds of junk calls.
The first type is from legitimate businesses. Recently, I was plagued with calls from a company that wanted to give me a “free” home security system (with a monthly service fee, of course). I asked them the name of their company and told person that I wanted to get the name right when I reported them to the Federal Trade Commission (which I did). The security system calls stopped immediately.
The other type of call is from scammers (mostly promising a reduction in credit card interest rates). These are unresponsive to any sort of threat. You can always tell a scammer as they will never give you any information about themselves or their company. So, for those a******s, all you can do is have fun wasting their time.
I haven’t had a landline for 10 years now. I never get junk calls, and I don’t pay $75-$100 per month to get junk calls.
Several, at least, per day. And we also have been on the Do Not Call list for years. I went on the Do Not Call website and reported a few of the repeat offenders, but they don’t message you with what action was taken (if any).
THIS works like a champ !
I don’t see what the problem is.
(1) I put my number on the donotcall lists.
Very effective except during election season.
(2) I don’t answer the phone. Ever.
Everyone who knows me knows that I’m either screening calls or not home and they leave a message. Even the “This is your credit card company...” (yeah, right) people have given up.