FARGGIN' Phone Scammers!!!

[HUSKER 37]

(video of a way to maybe make them stop)


I feel reALLY popular the last two days..14 CALLS TODAY and 18 from another from the same (Melborne, FL) area yesterday (accd to my phone log) and googling the numbers indicate they're scammers trying to get info and promising to reduce my magazine subscription bill by 10%..Do they still make magazines?

Usually these callers hang up as soon as they hear my purty voice but the two I answered this week actually talked fer awhile before hanging up on me.



.With all these "fines" the call registry supposedly levies against these culprits, you'd think we could get some sort of finder's fee after we turn them in.

 

[HUSKER 37]

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[knapplc]

https://www.donotcall.gov/

 

[HUSKER 37]

I try to register at least twice a year on that site (still bookmarked) and a friend of mine said she registers on it every month.

I'm thinking of starting the rumor that that's where they got my number in the 1st place.

I'm thinking if they call back tomorrow and I get past the 1st guy again, I'll try to get the supervisor's full name and the company's tax exempt number..and casually mention something about collecting evidence for a class action lawsuit.

 

[husker B-rent]

the do not call list is not going to stop them from calling. they can still call you 1 year after you register on the list and all they have to do is change their "company" name and they can call again after the year. most change their names up to 20 time a year...

 

[tschu]

Join the 21st century and just own a cell phone. Then you can see what number is calling and just not answer your phone. (or get caller ID if you still prefer last century.) Easy solution.

 

[Blackshirts007]

I don't know if this has been happening to anyone, but ive been getting text messages up the a$$ about winning free gift cards here and there, i usually get one twice or three times a months

 

[HUSKER 37]

Join the 21st century and just own a cell phone. Then you can see what number is calling and just not answer your phone. (or get caller ID if you still prefer last century.) Easy solution.

Read the post above yours by B-rent.about companies changing numbers/names.....And they also have been known to spoof numbers....Ever 5tried calling some of them back?

Just because the caller ID says "Unknown" doesn't mean that call doesn't wake you up from a rare nap, or make you wonder if it's your dying Mom wanting to say goodbye again..one last time.

And You mean they're calling cell phones too?

I've got one, I just never remember where it is or even to charge it.

The caller ID on my landline is how I found out they'd called 32 times in two days..every half hour or so..like they were casing the joint..But then I had to put on a second pair of glasses to read it.

 

[knapplc]

the do not call list is not going to stop them from calling. they can still call you 1 year after you register on the list and all they have to do is change their "company" name and they can call again after the year. most change their names up to 20 time a year...

Where did you hear this? This is not true. If you put your number on the list, within a month (or less, depending on the amount of paperwork they have to wade through) your number is on the list, and within a week or so from that the databases of telemarketers are updated. It's not difficult to track down who owns these numbers, and the FCC will pursue companies who ignore the list. It's not hard to report, and it's better to call the FCC a couple of times than to get those calls over and over and over.

You can still get calls from companies you do business with, so when you go to a register to buy something and they ask for your phone number, if you give it to them you're giving them permission to call you - so don't give them your number. If they insist and you don't want to argue, give them time-and-temp's number.

Credit agencies can call you if you owe a debt.

Survey companies can call you as long as they're not-for-profit.

Politicians can call you to elicit support. Shocking that the politicians would include themselves on that list, huh?

It is illegal for these companies to call cell phones.

 

[tschu]

Join the 21st century and just own a cell phone. Then you can see what number is calling and just not answer your phone. (or get caller ID if you still prefer last century.) Easy solution.

Read the post above yours by B-rent.about companies changing numbers/names.....And they also have been known to spoof numbers....Ever 5tried calling some of them back?

Just because the caller ID says "Unknown" doesn't mean that call doesn't wake you up from a rare nap, or make you wonder if it's your dying Mom wanting to say goodbye again..one last time.

And You mean they're calling cell phones too?

I've got one, I just never remember where it is or even to charge it.

The caller ID on my landline is how I found out they'd called 32 times in two days..every half hour or so..like they were casing the joint..But then I had to put on a second pair of glasses to read it.

I have a rule. If I don't recognize a number, I don't answer. If it is important they'll leave a voicemail message or immediately try calling again or even send a text (becoming much more commor now). You can also google numbers and you can easily find out if the number is associated with telemarketers or not. Keeps my life annoyance and stress free.

 

[GSG]

Join the 21st century and just own a cell phone. Then you can see what number is calling and just not answer your phone. (or get caller ID if you still prefer last century.) Easy solution.

Read the post above yours by B-rent.about companies changing numbers/names.....And they also have been known to spoof numbers....Ever 5tried calling some of them back?

Just because the caller ID says "Unknown" doesn't mean that call doesn't wake you up from a rare nap, or make you wonder if it's your dying Mom wanting to say goodbye again..one last time.

And You mean they're calling cell phones too?

I've got one, I just never remember where it is or even to charge it.

The caller ID on my landline is how I found out they'd called 32 times in two days..every half hour or so..like they were casing the joint..But then I had to put on a second pair of glasses to read it.

I have a rule. If I don't recognize a number, I don't answer. If it is important they'll leave a voicemail message or immediately try calling again or even send a text (becoming much more commor now). You can also google numbers and you can easily find out if the number is associated with telemarketers or not. Keeps my life annoyance and stress free.

^^This. All of it. Last week I had one number call that I didn't recognize. I looked it up and it's a company out of Tacoma, Washington that does election surveys or some sh#t.

 

[HUSKER 37]

Join the 21st century and just own a cell phone. Then you can see what number is calling and just not answer your phone. (or get caller ID if you still prefer last century.) Easy solution.

Read the post above yours by B-rent.about companies changing numbers/names.....And they also have been known to spoof numbers....Ever 5tried calling some of them back?

Just because the caller ID says "Unknown" doesn't mean that call doesn't wake you up from a rare nap, or make you wonder if it's your dying Mom wanting to say goodbye again..one last time.

And You mean they're calling cell phones too?

I've got one, I just never remember where it is or even to charge it.

The caller ID on my landline is how I found out they'd called 32 times in two days..every half hour or so..like they were casing the joint..But then I had to put on a second pair of glasses to read it.

I have a rule. If I don't recognize a number, I don't answer. If it is important they'll leave a voicemail message or immediately try calling again or even send a text (becoming much more commor now). You can also google numbers and you can easily find out if the number is associated with telemarketers or not. Keeps my life annoyance and stress free.

I used to have that rule..I also used to be great at remembering numbers, but with the holes in my brain from butting helmets in Football and/or Hazardous Wastes and other volatile organics? or maybe because I just turned 52..I'm having more trouble remembering the way home from work sometimes.

Imagine if I was sick one of those days that the robocalls happened every half hour..I'd love to turn my phone off so I could get some much needed REM sleep, but I shouldn't have to. There might be an emergency at work or at my Son's school..The week before, I got an automated message from my Son's school about a mysterious van in the vicinity of school and that we might want to pick our kids up rather than have them walk home...

A few months ago I got a call from a cell phone I'd never seen before..from my Niece who I hadn't seen in years..calling me to let me tell my Mom to let go a few seconds before she died in a hospice in Florida.

About the only company I've given my phone number out to is my bank and my insurance company..maybe DMV..Although my Son corrected me awhile back when I gave a car salesman a fake number.

Strange how many different calls show up on my caller ID log from businesses wanting to clean my carpets or maintain my heating and air conditioning..even AFTER signing up every number I could think of on that "Do Not Call List" much more than once.

I almost always google numbers I don't recognize..So far, every one I've looked up have similar complaints against them..that most times they hang up as soon as you say anything (robocalls)..That the DNC lists aren't working..that it's very difficult to put them out of business because either they change numbers, names, or claim to have done business with you because you "pressed the # one to be taken off their call list".

I can't tell you how many I've called back right away to complain about them ringing me and then hanging up..only to receive a message that that number isn't assigned to anyone. (spoof calls) where

In public telephone networks, it has for a long while been possible to find out who is calling you by looking at the Caller ID information that is transmitted with the call. There are technologies that transmit this information on landlines, on cellphones and also with VoIP. Unfortunately, there are now technologies (especially associated with VoIP) that allow callers to lie about their identity, and present false names and numbers, which could of course be used as a tool to defraud or harass. Because there are services and gateways that interconnect VoIP with other public phone networks, these false Caller IDs can be transmitted to any phone on the planet, which makes the whole Caller ID information now next to useless. Due to the distributed geographic nature of the Internet, VoIP calls can be generated in a different country to the receiver, which means that it is very difficult to have a legal framework to control those who would use fake Caller IDs as part of a scam.[1]

I've complained to my phone company, and they gladly will block (the latest?) 10 numbers for me for less than an extra $12 a month..but it feels sorta like paying the class bully "protection money" so he won't beat you up.