Posted on 07/05/2023 4:21:42 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
I bought a bag of referee whistles for about 10 bucks... Keep them near all my business lines for the unlucky humans wearing headsets that ignore the do not call list. I have them out to clients ,too. Many love them and tell me of blowing them in caller’s ears! Hehehe
My dear husband used an air horn.
There are two reasons for this, which cannot be turned around.
First, when I was a child, people didn't eat out/order 2 or 3 or 7 nights a week; restaurant dining was a luxury, enjoyed sparingly, with a set ritual of manners that made it more enjoyable. The same could be said of air travel, and train travel for that matter.
Second, because they were luxuries, they were reserved for people who were at a class level that meant they learned the set of manners, made sure they followed them, and expected others to follow them as well. Today, everyone eats at restaurants and takes plane flights, so the experience has lost all its luster.
And what does that have to do with telephones? For all the money that is spent on a smartphone or the service, it doesn't matter, everyone has a phone, and so there is no sense of luxury, or manners, or gratitude.
Wanna stop this crap? Telemarketers should be put in solitary for life with hip-hop playing non-stop at ear shattering levels.
I might pay to have this on my phone. I get few robo calls though, don’t have a landline but I do get a good number of text and email scams for oldsters.
My son was masterful at leading on telemarketers many years ago. He would waste hours of their time playing with them like a cat and a mouse. Just when they thought they were getting somewhere and were going to sell him something he would tell them he was under a psychiatrists care and didn’t have any money or was a minor or something like that.
We had a lightning strike a couple of years ago and had to replace our phones. We ended up buying AT&T phones with Smart Call Blocker on them. In general, the way it works is that unless a caller is in your contacts list on the phone or on the ‘allowed number’ list, they have to press the # key to get through. The vast majority of calls are robocalls and they cannot press the # key so they get hung up on. Once in a blue moon we will get a sales type call where there’s a real person and they’ll press the # key & get through.
Calls that get hung up on show on caller ID so you can see what is going on. Right now, we are getting 2 - 4 a day, although 2cweeks ago, we had a 12 call day .... phone never rang once, all robocalls.
Is this something we can subscribe to?
Best way to fight the fraud is waste their time to keep them from making as many calls.
My Panasonic phone has a set up where someone calls but the phone won’t allow the caller to ring through unless they follow the .. “If you wish to talk to the person you are calling, press the # button.”
(Or any other button or combo of numbers you want)
Great System!
You never hear the spam calls ringing through!
No, no, no! Never do this. All it takes is one person to call the authorities on you, and you will be visited and have all your guns taken away. Seriously, it's that crazy nowadays. A whistle or airhorn is a much better idea (although it can damage someone's ear); better they get harmed than you.
I still remember the sad story of "Dr. Marcus Welby," who lost his life in a fiery car crash after he was charged with molesting children.
Did I get that story right?
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1412569082517743
Y'all check out Tom Mabe for sure he trolls them hard.
For example: https://youtu.be/mkdoogjic4I
What are you talking about?
Good luck to the Jolly Roger
For android phones, get the app “should I answer”. It will block *millions* of spam caller numbers automatically. Impressive.
Hundreds of thousands of users hit a button whenever they get spam calls. Those numbers are immediately entered into the database and are auto blocked to your phone. You have everyone helping to block spam call to your phone. It works really well.
And every time the scammers reached a point where he claimed he was about to send them money, he made up a phony story about some kind of disaster or tragedy among his associates that would delay the process indefinitely. This went on for days -- even weeks.
The Freeper's name is Lowbridge.
Read the soccer uniforms in Post #34 closely. This was just one example. LOL.
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