Need Robocall Relief? Here's How to Fight Back - Comments Page 2

Lately it seems we almost never get a robo or other spam call from the same number. They come several times a day from different area codes all over the country, sometimes from places where we know people, these I sometimes answer. Sometimes I let them go to voicemail on the landline, occasionally I answer then quickly hang up. We are on the Do Not Call Registry, though I wish it included charity and political calls.
On my AT&T cell I do usually block the caller, but as I said they were rarely coming from the same number so that seems rather futile.

For cell phones try "Hiya" a call screening app. Much better than true caller and no adds...and...it's free.
I love it.

A simple solution to the few calls I do get and others might want to try: When I pick up the phone I answer with a SINGLE, SOFT Spoken "Hello" and then I wait. I hang up after 5 seconds if there is no response.
It seems scammers want people to say, HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, probably while their auto connect equipment tries to determine whether the phone has been answered or not, and then connect the call to a scammer. It works for me.

I've used nomorobo for years and maybe it's working but still getting 2-3 calls per day! The said aspect is robocalls must be working because they keep coming. 2.4 b per month! Stopping robocalls is like trying to stop the rain. Nothing works.

I use Nomorob on my home VOIP line ad it is great. I also use it on my iPhone with mixed success. The spammers are changing their tactics so rapidly that it is more difficult for them to keep up on the iPhone. I also use Truecaller as an adjunct blocking tool. Will have to give HiYa a try.

I use Nomorob on my home VOIP line ad it is great. I also use it on my iPhone with mixed success. The spammers are changing their tactics so rapidly that it is more difficult for them to keep up on the iPhone. I also use Truecaller as an adjunct blocking tool. Will have to give HiYa a try.

We rarely answer our landline phone and just let the answering machine pickup. When we do answer (just for fun) it is usually the MS tech support scam or something like it. We usually don't answer unknown numbers on our cell phones either due to the scammers.

Our phone system announces who a call is from. If it is not someone we know, we ignore it. Except when my husband want sto spam the spammers. He will answer the phone and pretend to be really dense in response to his winning a car or the lottery. when they want him to send them $$$ to pay for the taxes before he gets the money something always goes wrong. A couple of times he has strung someone along for 2-3 weeks, with a bad money order number, name or the wrong store/address. As long as the spammer is trying to get $$$s out of him, they are not trying to spoof someone else.

If these spammers put those talents to legitimate use instead of figuring out new ways to beat the system they would be millionaires.

I use a free application called "Should I answer?" and it's fantastic. (That little green octopus has given me peace of mind.) It blocks every call that's not in my contact list. I stopped listening to annoying calls of all kind long time ago.

This is how it works: The application makes a sound, letting you know about an incoming call. It immediately shows me the phone call that has been blocked and the phone number rating for that call so I can choose to answer back or not. If there is voicemail I can choose to delete the message if it's a telemarketer. I just make sure that the people I want to call me back are in my contact list so I won't miss their calls.

I only get 1 call every 2-3 months. Here's why....
I NEVER give out my phone number to cashiers, etc. Not only do those companies sell your number, but you never know who around you is listening.

Also, I NEVER answer a call not on my contact list. If it's a real call, they'll leave a message.

Because of all the companies insisting they absolutely have to have my phone number (actually, they don't), I give them a phony phone number, using a phone number that has the prefix 555. If someone is stupid enough to try and call that number, all they will get is directory Assistance (it's amazing how many people who should do not know that 555 is a fake prefix). I use the same number for store discount cards rather than carry the cards themselves around. No one gets my phone numbers unless they absolutely need it, then I swear them to secrecy.

I have Vonage but they came up with a great idea about a year ago. I have it ported to my android so I don't have to be right by an old school phone to get calls. I wonder if nomorobo will recognize that as a physical or a mobile. I guess I'll try it out. I get probably at least 2-3 calls a day and living part of the year in Thailand (12 hour time difference) that get's very irritating at about 2am.

Read posts:no workable remedy.Area telco, AT&T,Feb 2017,reneged on a long-awaited promise: placing "experimental nodes" to improve customary communication services. Among foothill cities of major mt. range,w/in city limits in So CAL, adjacent to Jet Propulsion Lab, a well-respected university,among foothill cities of major mt. range, above which are all TV/radio/GOVT protective towers = ongoing radio frequenc.issues.

Winds/weather etc.routinely fail & reduce cable customers to helpless state, as occurs in many other states where family live. Issues w/AT&T reported/published by Huff Post: AT&T LIED, still UNREFUTED, to CA PUC that U-verse hybrid fiber available, prompting our calls to AT&T @CA state HQ, where Mr. Spring & staff finally said: "we are too far from a Central Station, ditto; field office& and AT&T "continues to have no plan to change anything (note reneged promise above $@#%!)." Cell reception spotty at best even as aided by renting $99/mo. Verizon Jet Pack. In fact, this mobile service jokes: "we offer the best of the worst product/service'. NoMoRobo can't be used by AT&T cust. either who have AT&T traditional lines, which remain as same old ones used by your grandmother--old twisted copper pair of wires, down the line augmented by coaxial cable off of which too many upline customers vie daily for possibility of inconsistent connections.End of that line doesn't reach us!!!

STD. SVS. edging close to $40/mo.for what is LOUSY AT&T service (in essence, we are paying for pensions, labor costs, etc. of so-called AT&T minimal service provided after untold millions have been abandoned AT&T for better products/service that has become available to them. Foothill residences in our location and throughout this sizable city are not only ones affected--here exists a whole string of cities!

A married professional couple, performing essential communications;ie, business, regional disaster & pastoral care.& personal responsively, demands whatever we can manage to arrange. If you have an answer, we're listening.

There is an easy solution that is not well known - the RoboBlocker. It uses a special process to determine if the incoming call is from a robot or real person and hangs up on the robots before your phone even rings!! Does NOT use or require Caller ID that is usually faked. Check it out at http://roboblocker.tech

I have used Nomorobo on two Verizon traditional land line phone lines for several years and it is GREAT. They maintain a database of spam Robo callers and I have never had one get through. They do not block valid robocallers like police, schools, doctors etc. We get 20-30 single rings a week indicating that Nomorobo had blocked another

I am on a pay as you go account for my cell phone. I was receiving unwanted text messages so I called my service provider and complained. The result was they refunded me all the cost for the texts and a little more and eliminated text from my phone.