[HOWTO] Stop Annoying Robocalls - Comments Page 2

NoMoRobo really worked great until I found it occasionally dumped wanted phone calls from family. I think the only approach that makes sense is let the answering system take calls you don't know. If it was an important (non Robo) call they will leave a message.

I have used Phone Tray for years and you can block any kind of number or no number, name ect. I have not found any # or name that I block. The only is you have to leave your computer on all the time (I use an old xp computer for it.) Also Phone Tray takes all reported robo calls and updates your computer each night (if you wont it to anual fee $10.00)
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I have nomorobo for a couple of years and it has slow my calls. Most spam calls rings once and disconnect. For my cell I use HIJA which is a free app and work great. Block calls without a ring. You can also block manually and report them so the database can be updated.

I use an app called HIYA on my Android that works quite well. It blocks most known robo/spam calls and you can block any phone #you wish.

Nomorobo is working great.No reports from anybody I know about not getting thru.

In my area the Robo callers have found a way to use local phone numbers to call from. I found it out when I tried to call back when one of them got real nasty to my wife. The number was a local area code and a local exchange. When I called it back I go a local company that had no idea how their number got hi-jacked.

I was looking for a new caller ID machine for my elderly mother when I came across a CPR Callblocker V5000 machine on Amazon. It comes preloaded with 5000 blocked numbers of known offensive callers. It also is a caller ID machine that with one push of a button a number can be added to the blocked list. When I go to her house I look at the numbers that have called and I can then add them to the blocked list if they don't check out. It can't stop them all but the phone has just about gone silent. It's only been a couple of weeks but looks very promising.

Nomorobo's privacy policy is a notch above average, in promising it will not disclose personally-identifiable information to any third-parties. This is the good part, in a service to stop unsolicited calls.

The questionable part is Nomorobo's contract allows the company to call or email the subscriber, as the company deems "necessary". That is, Nomorobo has sole discretion to determine that necessity, and is allowed under the contract (a terms of service agreement) to promote its products and services in that call or in that emailed message. The company is allowed to call any phone in the household system connected to the registered number.

In other words, we are asked by Nomorobo to sign an agreement to halt unsolicited third-party calls but allow Nomorobo, itself, to make periodic and/or "service upgrade" sales calls through signing the terms of service agreement.

In at least some cases, it may be a close race between the number of unsolicited regular and periodic calls previously received from unknown third-parties, and the number from Nomorobo, itself. Our mileage may vary.

A very low tech solution it to find a disconnected number and record the three tone and voice message. The "No further information is available about" ,insert your number, placed on your answering machine will cause the robo caller to hiccup and give up the ghost most of the time. Then all you have to do is call back the people who you know when you get back and explain why you put that message on your answering machine.

If a number that I don't recognize calls me I don't answer it. It's just that simple. Eventually the robocallers will get tired of the voicemail and stop calling.

Did you know that per FCC you can sue the firm that is using robotcalls at $500 per call received?

Check it out and remind them when they get on the telephone that per FCC rules and regulation you will pursue legal action against them (and that you have been contacted xx times)which will be in addition to court cost.

There again, FTC has a complaint site where you can drop a few complaints along with the telephone number and discussion with the individual.

I've used NoMoreRobo on my ATT landline, and it works very well. The robo call rings once or twice, I don't get that announcement saying who's calling, and I ignore the call. Only once in approximately 2 years did a non-robo call get blocked. And I don't think I have VoIP.

The Do-Not-Call-List is useless. I receive more robo calls than I ever have.

I stumbled across TrueCaller months ago and really like it. You not only can block the calls but see who is calling and where their location is. Great tool.

1. We need help from the FCC and/or congress and I don't see that being a priority. I've written my Senator and received the usual obligatory response and no action. So, I decided to forward my phone to his office one day a month. I warn my friends in advance not to call me and I make sure I'm not scheduled to get a reminder call from the Dentist, Doctor, or whoever. Maybe next I'll forward to the FCC or customer support at my carrier, Centurylink.
2. Robo calls are generated by a computer, when someone answers the phone there is a pause then the computer passes the call to a person. I'm looking for a someone to write a program that could be sent back down my DSL line to the robo computer and destroy the data base.