I searched the last 10 pages for this but could not find anything on it. I keep getting a call almost everyday. They say that they can reduce my credit rates. My rates at ether o% or I pay it off every month. Are there some sort of device that I set to block these calls?
You know, you could have loads of fun with these idiots. I got this woman from Canada, that was trying to sell me magazines, tell me near the end of the call, 'You Americans are all alike.' I told her, 'Whoa! Let's not start an International incident.' To this day, I still wish I had recorded it.
If you have been on the gov Do Not Call list for at least a few months then you need to report these companies via the same website. PLEASE!
Personally I don't waste my time messing with the callers. They don't control who they call or know if they are legally calling someone. They are simply trying to make a buck. It's the owners of those companies that need to be held accountable. Giving a hard time to someone just trying to make a legit buck is not what I'm about. It won't close the business down.
The DNC seems to get a large number of some numbers/telemarketers then shuts them down after a few months. My provider (AT&T) has call blocking which effectively doesn't block. They allow the caller to still leave a message on the answer machine and basically only blocks the number showing on the ID caller so you don't know which number to complain about for the DNC ( I suspect some advertisers have got to them since call blocking didn't used to function this way)
The only thing I have figured out so far is to have ID caller and just not answer a number you are unfamiliar with. Not the best solution. I actually haven't seen any less calls since the DNC system began, maybe others have.
The only thing I have figured out so far is to have ID caller and just not answer a number you are unfamiliar with. Not the best solution. I actually haven't seen any less calls since the DNC system began, maybe others have.
I have "ID caller" as well, I will pickup an unfamiliar (suspect) number then quickly hangup! That way I don`t have to listen or get a message left on my machine, and also make them "spend their dime".
I have all anonymous calls blocked but these calls have numbers that will allow the calls go threw.
Does Comcast allow you to block specific numbers or ranges of numbers?
If not, independent VoIP companies (such as VOIPo) certainly do---and are a lot cheaper than Comcast's phone service too!
My comcast phone service price is comparable to voip phone service. I had voip phone service with 3 different voip company's before Comcast but did not like them. I had droped calls calls not getting getting to me.
I searched the last 10 pages for this but could not find anything on it. I keep getting a call almost everyday. They say that they can reduce my credit rates. My rates at ether o% or I pay it off every month. Are there some sort of device that I set to block these calls?
Search the Scam amd Phishbusters forum for calls from "Heather" and you find plenty on it. Here's a recent thread. The name changes but the calls are the same and they have nothing to do with your actual credit situation. And unfortunately no one has been able to stop or block these calls. Reporting them does no good because whatever you see in caller ID is faked and it changes with every call.
Ah... I remember the "bad old days" of having no control of my phones. As already mentioned, many VoIP providers have pretty robust call filtering options available.
An asterisk system can control these calls quite well. When I get an unwanted call, I simply hang up and dial *32. That adds the last number that called me to a "blacklist". They can never call from that number again. You can blacklist (or whitelist) entire area codes if need be.
i start yelling at them, demanding their name and employee numbers and saying that i am reporting them to the FCC and that they are all going to jail. it is a pile of garbage, but they never seem to call back...
I like the telezapper too but our town's emergency messages are computer generated and come from an 866 number, so i would lose those......
I've been watching the caller ID's for a long time and the AT&T U-Verse call management is a little better than useless. I get a call ID of 1 but i can't block it through the AT&T management. I have to enter 10 digits so huh????? Also the worst offenders are robo calls which probably originate overseas and so thumb their nose at our FTC laws. The same robo caller changes his caller ID every week.
Here's how I block calls... I use Callcentric and set up a custom call treatment for any spammer who has ever harassed me. I send Comcast spam to Charter customer service, I send Bank of America credit card offers to their CEOs home phone. I send political donations calls to the other political party donations hotline. Then the rest I send to either voicemail, busy signal, number disconnected message.
Some very special callers get forwarded to a recording of screaming monkeys.
What's neat is that if the home phone or internet goes down (almost never happens), I can even set it to forward to my cell.
Here's how I block calls... I use Callcentric and set up a custom call treatment for any spammer who has ever harassed me.
I send Comcast spam to Charter customer service, I send Bank of America credit card offers to their CEOs home phone. I send political donations calls to the other political party donations hotline.
Then the rest I send to either voicemail, busy signal, number disconnected message.
Some very special callers get forwarded to a recording of screaming monkeys....
. Looks like you've taken the Call Treatments thing to a whole new level.
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