Are You Fed Up With Telemarketers? (here's the answer) - Comments Page 2

I have a friend who swears by this, and he claims it has cut his received robocalls to zero. He recorded an old AT&T out-of-service message off the internet that anyone of a certain age probably remembers hearing some years ago, on a misdial, where a recorded female voice says, following three obnoxious, loud tones: (bee-Bah_BAH) "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed, area code ###-###-#### is no longer in service...please check the number you are dialing, or ask an operator for assistance"

Supposedly, those three tones, preceding the spoken message are a signal to a robo machine that the call won't go through, and to not bother to leave a message. He was able to get recordings of all the spoken numbers from one through zero, and reedited the message using his own phone number, and placed it on his phone's answering device, instead of the one recorded from the internet, although any set of numbers would work, as the robo machine supposedly only understanding the three tones, and not any human speech following the tones. He tells family and friends who call to wait until the message has finished before leaving their own message, as his machine will really not reject their calls.

My landline phone shows caller ID, has an answering machine, and has the ability to allocate different ring tones to different numbers. Any number saved in its phone book has a certain ring, all unknown numbers have another. When the phone rings with the unknown ring tone, I do not even get up from my chair. I let the call go through to the answering machine. If the call was important, they will leave a message.

I have several Robo calls per day.
In Australia we have "Do Not Call" legislation which in practice turns out to be useless.
Almost all calls originate from the Phillipines or some other (generally Asian) country. you can ask for caller details but that just results in a hang up. No one seems to be accountable for these gross intrusions & I have no idea how you might attempt a case to sue for compensation. Many land lines now are based on broadband capability so traditional carriers do not need to do anything.

Brian B, tell me what landline phone does this.

I had to block my own phone number (and name) from incoming spoofed caller-id. THAT'S how nuts this has become.

Very disconcerting when I saw that I was apparently calling me with my own number 17 times within 30 minutes. The next day it was down to 11 times plus angry calls from others screaming at me to stop calling their number!

@ Cat. It's a feature of my cordless Uniden phone/answering machine. It worked on my old copper wire connection, and now also on a fibre optic connection.

Get the RoboKiller app! It's a TOTAL RIOT! I even recorded my own custom AnswerBot. I had one idiot caller have a conversation with my Answerbot for over 3 minutes. My AnswerBot even looped back and started over from the beginning and the idiot caller was still talking to my recording. ROFLM**O

I use the CPR CallBlocker and it has 1000's of known telemarketer numbers blocked builtin to it, especially overseas. You can block a obvious caller with a push of a big red button, poof they are gone - LOL. Also you can manually block out whole exchanges like 303-404-****, by entering "303404" or you can block all 303 numbers by entering "303". This is for a landline only.

You can get them on Amazon, or Ebay, it's well worth to see when they are automatically blocked and they also rotate many different numbers, I finally got this under control!

Also you carrier may have a system where the telemarketer has to enter a number to connect to your phone, and telemarketers don't have the ability to do this.

MagicJack also has this feature - so in effect I have a "phone firewall" - LOL

So I laugh at the morons who try to call me!

Suing these vultures may be satisfying. But so is blocking their call. NOMOROBO has been doing an excellent job for me using a VOIP phone.

I normally let calls I don't recognize go to voicemail. Sometimes, if I'm feeling especially annoyed with the calls, I answer the phone, "FBI, how may I help you? They always quickly hang up and I get a good laugh.

Getting a dozen robocalls daily for years now. My Sentry 10,000 number capacity one ring hangup analog landline call blocker device does a good job. But because these scammers just spoof a new number every time, my blocked number list simply keeps growing and growing and growing. I've repeatedly requested from Xfinity Comcast, an option to automatically reject all calls which originate from overseas. I have no reason to talk to anyone outside of the USA for any reason what so ever and due to the risk, I won't even sign up for anything from a company whom uses overseas call center services. There have been articles out that the same csr people in some countries like India, turn round around from that day job and then call you again from their other job and scam you out of data and dollars. This article is worthy and interesting, but I don't deal with live or legitimate companies, just years and years of never ending foreign scam artists, robocalls, and automatic hang ups. So much I don't even say hello anymore, since less than 1 in 20 calls is a live caller. I do not talk to robots and the most offensive call out there is not the human scammer, but rather a robotic interface pretending to be human. Thank you for reading.