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Anyone else in a situation where you're receiving robocalls ten times a day? Hard to believe, but I can show screenshots as proof. I just counted. It's four ti
by sillysaurus3 9y ago
Anyone else in a situation where you're receiving robocalls ten times a day? Hard to believe, but I can show screenshots as proof.
I just counted. It's four times per day, like clockwork. Then there are various other robocalls that come in every couple days. So sometimes it's 4 per day, sometimes it's up to 7.
It's mildly annoying, but is there any other option than to just ignore it or keep blocking the endless new numbers that pop up?
- chrsstrm 9y agoThe spam call filter is arguably one of the best benefits of using a Google Voice number. My spam call and voicemail folder is full of SEO, payday loan, and other outright scam messages. Just activate the filter and you never see these calls unless you go into the spam interface on the Voice site. You can manually add a number to your spam block but most calls are auto-blocked against a list of known offenders.
- plorkyeran 9y agoGoogle Voice filters out most of the spam calls I get, but there's still one or so per day that make it through.
- reustle 9y agoI use google voice (hangouts?) and get 3 to 6 robo voicemails a day. They are 2-5 seconds in length, and empty.
- kaybe 9y agoIs getting a new number a bad option for you?
- cynicalbastard 9y agorobocalls are made by war dialers.
- sillysaurus3 9y agoEhh, sentimental value. I've had it since I was 13 or so. Plus I occasionally get a random text from an old friend. I've thought about it though. If I knew it'd fix the problem, I might do it. But the robocalls seem to scale up faster than new numbers. I guess it'd be a nice reprieve.
- dentemple 9y agoIt never helps.
- kaybe 9y agoI seem to have a very good number. I never got a call from telemarketers. Might be the German laws or the fact that I have had that number since the dawn of mobile phones.
- leejoramo 9y agoI have had several friends and colleagues get new numbers and immediately be hounded by collection agencies looking for the old owner of the number. Some of these collection agencies also stared sending postal mail to their homes based on the linking this new number with their addresses.
- su3aseuo9 9y agoThere's an easy way to stop this. After it happens call the police and say you're getting harassing calls. They'll file a police report. You then call the phone company and tell them you've been getting harassing calls, have a police report, and would like to put a trace on your line. They'll give you a phone number to call. Whenever you get a debt collector calling you, you dial the number. After 3 or 4 calls, the police will contact the debt collector and tell them to stop calling you. They will.
- bediger4000 9y agoI get about 4 "Card Services" or "Google Marketing" or some such robocalls a day, too. The Verizon customer service rep suggested "just blocking the number" after expressing shock and awe that robocalls happen, and he had never heard of such a thing! I suggest at least leaving the robocall running until it hangs up. Any given organization has to have a finite number of outgoing lines, and IVR/VRU's, so keeping them occupied should be a priority for all of us. If you've got the time to fuck around with a Real Human, do that, too. They definitely have a large, but finite, supply of call center workers. Keeping them unhappy should be a priority for all of us. The faster someone quits out of despair, the more that they have to pay to train a new worker.
- ziszis 9y agoMost of the call spam blocking solutions suffer from needing to trust Caller ID. Spoofing caller ID is now trivial and used by spammers [1] There are some work arounds to this like "audio fingerprinting". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoThese orgs don't necessarily have a finite number of outbound lines - they'd be using SIP and just buy more channels from the myriad providers out there for a few bucks a month. You can also get "unlimited channels"-SIP trunk providers too - in which case you're limited only by the number of simultaneous virtual channels your Asterisk setup can handle. So no, "keeping them busy" is not a viable solution.
- manquer 9y agoThey will have to still pay for it. If the RoI on these kind of campaigns become low enough, due to combination of higher cost and lower conversion, they will abandon it. You could develop a dialer app to autoroute, and perhaps even generate auto responses ( inverse robo call ?) to make it more frustrating
- bediger4000 9y ago
- joering2 9y agoMy experience tells me it varies by network. All my family runs on ATT, Verizon and TMobile.. and all get spam by robocalls. Meanwhile I have SimpleTalk (which is a rebrnd t-mobile so you get reception of tmobile network under silly name simpletalk), I got about 10 robocalls since I have this number circa 2011. Also - certain area codes are hotter than others. While I have Cali number, I know many folks living in Alaska and never got robocalled.
- ngoldbaum 9y agoFor a long time now I've received many many more robocalls than real calls. It makes me want to turn off the phone features of my phone.
- mgbmtl 9y agoI did! You can do that with most providers. If they don't explicitly offer it, just tell them you want to switch to an tablet/iPad plan. I pay $15/month for a 3 GB data-only plan and $1/month for a VoIP number that routes SMS to email/app (voip.ms), for those 2 people I know who still use SMS.
- khedoros1 9y ago> for those 2 people I know who still use SMS. Interesting. I think I use SMS for more people than every other phone-based method of contact put together.
- Gaelan 9y agoUS high schooler here. I use SMS pretty frequently if you count iMessage, maybe real SMS with 2 or 3 people.
- mgbmtl 9y agoI use a lot of messaging apps, just not SMS. Partly for privacy reasons, partly for convenience.
- khedoros1 9y agoHmm. Convenience is the exact reason I'd give for staying away from "a lot of messaging apps" and using primarily SMS. I've got a couple friends that really like Signal, so that's the only other messaging app I ever install.
- city41 9y agoBe careful about leaking your phone number online, such as in whois data or other places. I started an LLC a few years ago and my god the number of spam calls I got, it was absolutely ludicrous (I still get them to this day, although it's now on the order of 2 a month)
- su3aseuo9 9y agoOh god, not just phone calls, but mail, too. And they make some weird connections. I once got a credit card offer that was addressed to me and a woman who's name I did not recognize. It took me a few minutes to realize that she and her husband ran the ISP I used. I was the business contact for my domain, but she was the technical contact since she was at the hosting company. Luckily my spouse is a very understanding person! She was like, "Why are you getting credit card offers with this other woman's name on them?"
- thescribe 9y agoI've gone as far as reporting the numbers to my state AG, but it clearly hasn't stopped them. I get them constantly. I used to hang up right away but these days I try to keep the robot on the line as long as possible to make it less cost effective to call me. Do we need the equivalent of Fail2Ban for phone numbers? Some app that allows you to flag calls, and past some threshold the whole network bans the number?
- function_seven 9y agoAs far as I know, they just spoof the originating number. This makes reporting the numbers useless, as well as any kind of blacklisting. Imagine if you could send spam emails from any arbitrary IP address or domain you wanted to. Blacklisting would be meaningless in that case.
- kolencherry 9y agoThe spoofing happens frequently and it's incredibly frustrating if you are the unfortunate person whose number gets spoofed. My number got spoofed by a robo-dialer who called the ENTIRE +1 469 prefix. I received dozens of calls a day from angry people who got called.
- function_seven 9y agoI’m afraid my number might be used as the originator someday. Often when I get these calls, I keep them on the line as long as possible, feigning interest in whatever they’re selling. I figure as long as I tie them up, maybe I can waste a bit of their resources. Probably futile, but makes me feel better. Except they might retaliate one day and set their outgoing ANI to my number...
- rdtsc 9y agoI do the same. A few of them got very angry, yelling quite creative obscenities. Some were amusing and I had never heard of. I took it as a an enriching cultural exchange. But did realize they have my number and could do something like what you suggested.
- Frondo 9y agoIf you're on Android, there's call-blocking apps that let you do various kinds of blacklist/whitelist call screening. For now, I block spammy numbers and unknown/private numbers. If it gets bad, I'll move to a whitelist (only people on my contact list ring through). It's galling beyond belief that any political party anywhere would let the abuse of the phone system become a free speech issue. These people are actively making the world worse. (And what's worse is how cheaply they're bought off. Come on, you scummy congresspeople, are you really worth so little?)
- su3aseuo9 9y agoThese exist for most phones and provider. However, having read the terms of service on them, they pretty much collect a bunch of data about you for marketing purposes, so it kind of defeats the point. They will, for example, collect the numbers of everyone who calls you. (They have to be able to do that in order to look up and block calls from known spammers.) No thanks.
- woodruffw 9y agoI used to get one or two robocalls a month, but over the past 2-3 months I've been getting multiple nearly every single day. What's really interesting is that I'm seeing a lot of spoofed numbers from my same area code, and even from the same branch (i.e., the next four digits). My guess is that the robocallers have found that people are more likely to pick up when the call might be coming from next door.
- coding123 9y agoI'm at the point where I'm going to start telling places my Skype ID and let them figure out how to contact me. We don't need our phone numbers any more.
- reustle 9y agoThe problem is, we do. Telegram, LINE, 2fa on many sites, banks, they all want my phone number. They require it. I already use a google voice number, but that still doesn't solve it all (still getting tons of bot voicemails)
- maxerickson 9y agoI pick up and say "Please put this number on your do not call list", talking over them if necessary. People doubt it, but this works. They don't actually want to waste resources on you if you are not a good lead. Even the scammers want to be efficient.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoYou actually get real people who are calling you, and not "if you're interested, press 1"?
- mirimir 9y agoThis is a funny routine: http://sfglobe.com/?id=18461 http://sfglobe.com/?id=18461 Also: > The Jolly Roger Telephone Co. > Tired of telemarketers? Now you can turn the tables on them with this clever bot. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/202664225/the-jolly-roger-telephone-co https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/202664225/the-jolly-rog...
- pmcjones 9y agonomorobo.com works well for me (with an AT&T U-verse VOIP line). You need to have the "simultaneous ring" feature, which most mobile phone carriers do not provide.
- e40 9y agoYeah, me, too. And the calls are mostly from numbers near my number. Only once did I get repeated calls from the same number (until I blocked it). Very, very annoying.