do not call (cell phone)

Signed up for the do not call for cell phone, but still get those annoying calls, sometime 3-4 times a day. I just did put these numbers in the blocked call on the cell phone, but you wonder if they dont have 100's of telephone numbers to choose from. Any recommendations?

I just name them "do not answer" in my cell

I have been on the do not call list for the land line and cell phone since it started. I keep updating about each year. I still get several calls, land line and cell. If I do not recognize a number, I let it go to my voice mail (cell phone) or answering machine. (land line) if someone wants to talk to me, they can leave a message. I may have had greasy hands, working under my car or truck, in the bathroom, what ever. No message, I do not call back.

I had a collection agency that would call several times every day looking for someone with a completely different name. I have lived here all my life and had the same number since 1973 so that person has never lived here. State Attorney General got involved and they quit. About 2 months later, the calling started again, this time with a different number. They were again persuaded to stop. After this, I started doing the above.

A new trick the scammers have came up with that caught Dixie a coupla times. Caller ID came up with my own name and house number. Dixie thought I was calling her and got some gibberish sounding guy. We don't answer without a caller ID name.

Yeah, have listed with do-not-call since the get-go, all phones. Renewed regularly. Doesn't make a difference. Still getting calls regularly. Even on cell, which is unlisted. Get a call from Carmen or her girlfriends about credit cards almost daily. Don't have caller ID on landline, but any unwanted cell calls get reported to donotcall.gov. Problem is that it takes a very long time, if ever for govt. to act.

I go to donotcall.gov and report telemarketers at end of the day. Been doing this for year and half and have gone from several calls a week to seldom getting calls.

Also.... am looking into getting my name and info removed from internet search, guess it can be done.

Really nothing you can do.

The sad truth is, telemarketing works. It's hard to believe people actually BUY stuff this way, but they do. So much in fact that the telemarketers don't care about any fines - if they ever DO get fined. Just a cost of doing business.

Many of them are also outside the US and can't be touched.

There's just no way to stop it...

OTHER than making it NOT work in the first place.

What I like to do is just take the calls, get through the robotic stuff, wait for a real person to come on - and talk to them as long as I can. It's a colossal waste of my time, but a BIGGER waste of theirs. If I'm just sitting at my desk anyways typing away, it doesn't cost me anything.

And it makes me feel better knowing I'm making the telemarketer less efficient. Making it tougher for them to stay in business.

If everybody did this - these guys would all be out of business in no time.

I highly recommend it - it can be VERY satisfying. It's the only real retribution you can get.

I had the "we see you have a virus on your pc" guys on the line for two hours. I got "escalated" several times.

I kept pretending to type into my pc what they were telling me to type, and I'd play along for a bit - then 10 minutes in, they'd ask what's on my screen now expecting a certain form or whatever and I'd tell them "ok, I did that ... and now I see yesterdaystractors.com"... Their heads would explode - going through all the steps again.

It was fun.

The final guy was SCREAMING at me "I KNOW your LYING - Why are you LYING to me". I loved it. Loved having a telemarketer get )#$(*# off!!! Sorry, I'm not lying, let's try it ONE more time... 10 minutes later OK - I think it worked, I'm not seeing the tractor site this time... I have something new - I see caseIHparts.com

Try it some time.

I put them in a special contact on my phone that sends them to voice mail. They never leave a msg and it doesn't ring. They only have so many # to call from so it cuts down a lot on the calls. Of course as they get a new number to call from you have to add them. I have about 60 numbers in that contact now.

JR has it right. Many telemarketers moved offshore when they put the do not call list into play because that law ONLY AFFECTS COMPANIES OPERATING IN THE US. Off shore is outside US jurisdiction.

Another part of the story is that any company that you have done business with that you provided a phone number to the company and it's affiliates are exempt from the do not call list because you provided that phone number. So when you are at a store that asks your phone number at the register either refuse or make a number up!

A caller gets credit for a completed call as long as they have the time to get the sales pitch out regardless if you buy or not. If you hang up they immediately get hooked up to another call. You keep them on the line talking that keeps them from calling another person who may actually buy whatever they are selling. So by talking to them and keeping them on the phone, then refusing to buy anything doesn't hurt the worker but does cost the company money. Most of the workers are there because they need that job. It's the company that's the bad guy here. Most marketing companies pay a good deal better than some place like Wal Mart. So again, I agree with JR, keep em on the line. Make the workers day a little better and cost the company!

Rick

I always give the # 867-5309.

Remember the song 'Jenny" by Tommy Twotones. Popular 80's or 90's song.

I'ver even had come clerks tell me 'yup, we already have you in our system". So, I'm not the only
one to use that # LOL!

New scam here, got an e- mail saying my new order for bank checks were being sent. Ididn't order any from the bank. Figured this was a scam and didn't reply. Watch out for this one.

I ask for their legal service address, tell them the local state attorneys office advise me to call them lying, thieving scam artists if they don't give me that legal service address in the next sentence. They can prove they are honest by doing what law dog says-or they can prove they are lying, thieving scam artists by hanging up. If I had a voice mail recorder connected to old phone, I'd probably know how to swear in 5 different languages by now. does cut down on harassing calls.
RN

With the annoying calls I get the number that comes up on caller id is a spoofed one. Couldn't block them if I wanted. Now if Congress would would make spoofing illegal maybe we'd get somewhere.

A tela marketer usually will not call me the second time after I get done with them, will never call me a third time as the first time is tam compaired to the second time when I get done with them. takes some time before they can hear in their ear again.

With a taped voice calling you, just wait til the end of the message & press 9 to be put on their do not call list.

I must be the odd man out here because I never get telemarketing calls and as far as I know my wife never gets these calls either.

I do give my cell number out; but only to people that I need to call me.
If they need a number for some warranty claim or such; Like the parts place wants a number to reference my claim; I give them a false number we use just for that.
Even my credit card holders have a false number. If the need to get in touch with me they can do it by mail as I am not talking business over the phone anyway.

I suspect you guys are giving your number to someone that is selling it.

(quoted from post at 11:23:27 10/09/15) Signed up for the do not call for cell phone, but still get those annoying calls, sometime 3-4 times a day. I just did put these numbers in the blocked call on the cell phone, but you wonder if they dont have 100's of telephone numbers to choose from. Any recommendations?

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Do not call list works for REPUTABLE companies. Many of the calls are scams. If you answer, or press any numbers, they know you are a "live" number and continue to call more, sell out your number. Card services is one of the big ones, they call people up to several times a day, the number that shows up is "spoofed", fake number that's usually not in service. They don't have a do not call list so if you tell them not to call, it does nothing. If you see a strange number call you, Google the number. Usually if it's a common scam call there's info on it. I don't get any calls on my cell phone. However, old house number does. Dairy supply company calls (no business for 20 years, and not with me while underage). Also, a replacement window company based in state calls illegally a few times a year (telling them not to call doesn't work). Card services often calls once a day. As for having my number in the wrong place, I have a land loan through USDA, few years ago they placed documents online for the world to see, my account number that they used was my SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. So, name, address, phone, I think even birthdate, etc. on a public site, of course it got out. I'd call that negligence, and for my info getting out due to their neglect? They paid for credit monitoring for a year or so, and that's it. It takes nothing for your phone number to get out, not to mention they also call random numbers to find live ones.

Yep. That is the surest way to validate your number as a "live" number and get it sold to 10,000 other scammers.

Quote: "takes some time before they can hear in their ear again."

You are only kidding yourself. Unless the caller has a high powered amplifier in his/her phone, it is IRRELEVANT how much noise you make into the phone. The most the caller will hear is what the caller's phone is capable of reproducing - and only at the available amplitude that the caller's phone is capable of producing. I have never seen a phone or headset capable of producing a loud enough sound to cause hearing damage.

(quoted from post at 18:54:22 10/09/15) With the annoying calls I get the number that comes up on caller id is a spoofed one. Couldn't block them if I wanted. Now if Congress would would make spoofing illegal maybe we'd get somewhere.

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Again congress can pass anything they want to. If the call originates outside of the US NO LAWS HAVE BEEN BROKEN because it doesn't fall under US jurisdiction UNLESS it's a pure scam and falls under international law. And even then you have to get the country where a scam is based out of to allow extradition. Mostly smoke and mirrors. "My fellow Americans" look what we did for you, just don't read the fine print!

Rick