telemarketers

I always have my phone with me in the shop but the telemarketers have gotten so bad, that i had to install an App called 'should I answer' to at least try to beat back the 20plus calls a day.   I'm sure that i'm missing some door shock customers but had to do something!   Is anyone else receiving the onslaught as bad as i am?

I've been on the "no call" list for20yrs and worked well until about a year ago!

   I don't answer any numbers my phone doesn't know, Goes to voice mail if they want to leave message mostly they don't.

when ever I tell anyone to call me, I tell them that if I don't answer to leave a message. the reason is...we have so many dead spots in my area, sometimes the phone won't ring right away, but it still takes a voice mail.

Gordy wrote:    I don't answer any numbers my phone doesn't know, Goes to voice mail if they want to leave message mostly they don't.

I’m with Gordy also. If it’s important enough they can leave a message.

yep! get them all the time, and I am on the no call list, and updated little over a year ago. worthless and a waste of time, the crooks ignore them or find ways around them. some offer an option to push whatever number
to be added to their no call list, but then they call back within a day or two using a new number, which is usually a hijacked no. I block their number, but they just hijack a new number and call back. No human, just a recorded number and after their spiel, instructed to touch this or that number to speak to an agent if I want to sign up for this or that, I wont do that because that may be interpreted as an acceptance of something, such as switching my phone or electric service. That was happening around awhile back. Unfortunately, I am in a position that I must take every call. Best I can do is lay the phone down and let them do their thing. One repeated the same message 8 or 9 times and asked me to push a number for more information....after about 10-15 seconds and I didn't respond it went through it again. Wife asked, what good does that do....gives me the satisfaction of holding up their system that little bit of time that it couldn't bother someone else.

I'm surprised, but apparently there are still people who fall for these things, or they wouldn't still be calling.

Edited by LouSWPA - 16 Dec 2018 at 10:04pm

I am also on the no call list and get call from local peoples numbers that is hijacked. While on vacation to Florida I got a call from a local number from home and left it go to voice mail and it was a woman tell me to remove her from my call list and this is the second time this has happen a robo caller using my number

When I had a landline and a telemarketer would call, I would say that I would get the person and just lay down the phone and wait for the signal that they got tired of waiting and hung up.

Friend of mine says his brother in law wrote a program for a outfit to dial numbers in their customer base they said -- turns out after he got piad for the program he found out the outfit was a scam in they sold the program - it uses lists of unumbers that have been cancelled or are out of service to call people - 
 Now that the guy is getting robocalls he is cursing making that program .

If you pick up and someone starts talking, in an official voice say "Internal Revenue Service-Fraud Division, how can I direct your call?".

Yesterday I got an Amber Alert on my personal cell phone about 7:15 then 10 minutes later the same alert on the business line.  a bit later I get a call from the Social Security, that is what the woman said, told her I was secure enough and not very social and hung up.

The robo callers automatically dial several numbers at a time and then talk to whoever answers first, usually the rest of the numbers will be hung up unless another person at the call center can take the call.  Often your number will be called several times on rotation until you answer or maybe the machine decides there is no one at that number, or it goes to voice mail.  The humans that work at the call centers no longer dial numbers, only talk.  I can't imagine being so hard up as to take a job at a call center but there are plenty of people who do.