Lol sounds like something I would do 👍🏻
Get Robokiller. Works great.
Any American caught with a robocalling operation pays fines, loses the right to that phone number, and can only possess one phone number for personal use. Non-American offenders lose all phone privileges and get deported.
My parents were born in the 1920s. Because of infirmity, in their last years, they couldn’t answer the phone.
I tried to disabuse them their old-fashioned notions, but even before that, when anyone called the house, they were polite, respectful and gave the caller a full hearing. They and assumed that the caller had something valuable to say - and would be mutually respectful to them as well.
Like air-travel, restaurant dining, and 1000 other social interactions, I take it as a measure of how far our society has fallen - and how low our expectations are now.
There is a White Knight on Youtube who targets scammers. He tracks them down, hacks their systems, and reports them to foreign authorities.
My cell phone has a "Do not disturb" mode where it won't ring except for caller IDs in my contact list. So family and friends get through, but spammers go direct to voicemail.
These days you can get answering machines with a whitelist feature. Don't bother with blacklist, spammers just randomly change numbers.
I hope his next customer is Mike Tyson and Mike doesn’t tip him.
Did you try adding your phone number to the Federal Do Not Call list? It will only stop legitimate call centers as call centers in India just ignore our laws.
My late mother would give these scammers heck when they called. If the caller said he was her “favorite grandson” and in jail and needed money, she would respond that all her grandchildren were currently at her home. Or, she would tell them her grandsons would do nothing in which to be arrested for they were all “sweet and adorable”. Sometimes she would tell them to call her attorney and she would give him the number if they would just wait a minute while she found it. By the time she returned to the phone, they would be gone.
For the Medicaid callers she would confuse them with questions regarding which medications would be covered under the offered plan. She knew the actual official names of many medications and could spout them off at a request. Mother would ask if a medication for some obscure disease was covered, and the caller would be so flustered they would many times just hang up at that point.
I told her many times to be careful and just ignore the calls she didn’t recognize. However, she enjoyed aggravating them while pretending to be an naive old lady.
Lowbridge scams the Nigerian 419 Email Scammers
This is what the internet was made for, folks. LMAO.
I wish I could get my mother to do that. The phone even tells her it's potential spam, and she still answers it. My dad ignores anything that isn't from someone in his contact list.
I still have a landline as an emergency backup for outgoing calls but ringer is off and I never check caller Id. If people want us they have to ring our mobiles.
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
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.
Best way to fight the fraud is waste their time to keep them from making as many calls.
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.
What a bunch of bullshit. This is in the category of a Likely Story. He imagines a time when a chatbot might be able to hold the thread of a conversation more than 3 thoughts in. Siri and Alexa are only one thought deep. Chatbot might be two thoughts deep.