Anyone else get random phone calls constantly?

[AustinN4]

Just got another spoofed number call! Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

 

[ZX9RCAM]

This is interesting:

https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2018...will-use-ai-to-respond-to-telemarketer-calls/

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Google Pixel 3.

 

[SloppyShooter]

I used to get random phone calls all the time until I blocked Moonpie.

Seriously, I got a phone call ID'd as "WS Police dept." I answered it and it was a damn telemarketer!!!

 

[easy rider]

I don't let it bother me. I tell my students to text me. Phone calls that I don't recognize can leave a message or else I consider it unimportant.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I don't let it bother me. I tell my students to text me. Phone calls that I don't recognize can leave a message or else I consider it unimportant.

That's all well and good, but the ringing still is annoying.

 

[easy rider]

I bring my phone with me, but I don't keep it on me. I refuse to let my phone run my life.

 

[Vaquero]

That's all well and good, but the ringing still is annoying.

Especially with my ringtone.
It has to be something I can hear, so, it's something everybody can hear.
Heh

 

[BRD@66]

For spam calls on cell phones, I have no help. If you are talkin' landlines look here:
https://www.texasguntalk.com/threads/call-blocker-for-landline-telephone.88264/
Bozz10 nearly has me straightened out in this thread with a Digitone Pro blocker. Gotta buy it on-line though, there isn't enough demand for a supply at Wal Mart or Best Buy.

 

[Vaquero]

My ringtone.

 

[SloppyShooter]

Especially with my ringtone.
It has to be something I can hear, so, it's something everybody can hear.
Heh

Driving around with an old buddy of mine, and his cellphone goes off. The ringtone is a police siren!!!!!

Put me in cardiac arrest for a moment.

 

[AustinN4]

For spam calls on cell phones, I have no help. If you are talkin' landlines look here:
https://www.texasguntalk.com/threads/call-blocker-for-landline-telephone.88264/
Bozz10 nearly has me straightened out in this thread with a Digitone Pro blocker. Gotta buy it on-line though, there isn't enough demand for a supply at Wal Mart or Best Buy.

Pretty sure it doesn't stop spoofed numbers and caller ID names.

 

[TheDan]

I am not a techie, but I don't understand why it is so hard to get our devices (phones, call blockers, etc) to recognize when a call is actually coming from a number that is different than what the caller ID says and automatically block it. It seems to be easy enough tech for the spoofers to do it to us.

If anyone is going to be able to develop methods to detect spoofers it'll be the carriers. I would think the first one to come out with that would get a nice boost in sales.

Trying to get the FCC to do anything about it is a fool's errand.

That's all well and good, but the ringing still is annoying.

Especially with my ringtone.
It has to be something I can hear, so, it's something everybody can hear.
Heh

You can set a different ring tone for numbers not in your contact list from the ones in your contact list. Set the default ringer to something quiet. Mine is a little bit of white noise.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Can't do that with my landline.

And damnit, just because nobody else keeps theirs, I should still be able to keep mine and not be bothered.

Merica!

 

[Kar98]

Yeah first the phone company sells you a phone, then it sells your info to spammers, then it sells you caller ID, then it sells spammers the ability to spoof numbers, then it sells you new and improved caller ID...

'murica!

 

[AustinN4]

Can't do that with my landline.
And damnit, just because nobody else keeps theirs, I should still be able to keep mine and not be bothered. Merica!

You call'in me nobody? I am (heavy emphasis on the am), (slight pase) Somebody!
I have a landline also at home.

 

[karlac]

Yeah first the phone company sells you a phone, then it sells your info to spammers, then it sells you caller ID, then it sells spammers the ability to spoof numbers, then it sells you new and improved caller ID...

'murica!

Nailed it.
LOL, if it wasn't so damn true.sad

 

[rman]

I get debt consolidation, some Chinese shit, and fake Google constantly

Sent from my SIG Sauer

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Yep.

 

[Kingarthur777]

My daughter got one on her phone today, with someone wanting to access the computer (to fix it) for the low, low price of 49.99. I asked him if he also sold dildos. He was less than amused. It was F word this and F word that. I asked him if he was the variety that did that with donkey's or camels?

 

[TheDan]

Can't do that with my landline.

You just need a smarter phone. There's some Gigaset models that will do custom ringtones based on caller ID.

Last time I had a landline I only ever used it for outbound calls. I kept the ringer turned off. I connected an answering machine to it and set it to "message" mode. Recorded a very long message with lots of "hmm", "tell me more", and "can you repeat that, you broke up" just to screw with the spammers