Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Say ‘goodbye’ to robocalls

Those three don’t have to worry about it; they have someone to answer their phone....

Actually, in this case you are wrong.

The robocall are a cost to the telecoms that we'd like to get rid of, unfortunately under current law, we are not allowed to block them. Given the option, yes, we'd like to get rid of them.

We already block a huge amount of the foreign origin spam.

Thanks. I'd like to hear their reasoning for voting like they did.

You’re not into that?

Seems some here want .gov ta be the answer to alla their little bitty problems.

The phone companies will block calls from scammers & robo callers before they reach customers and will charge callers for scam and robo calls. Foreign phone companies will have to collect penalties from scam callers if they want to connect to our phone network.

They will make it so that customers will have to explicitly accept charges from pay by the minute numbers.

The call blocking that magic jack IP phones uses is the best thing I ever tried and at no cost.

We went from 15 to 20 calls a day to no robo calls, now when you call my number the system gives a random number the caller must enter otherwise it drops the call.

The only nay vote in the Senate belongs to Rand Paul.

Who'd a thunk it?

Yes I do,
the same way they corrected those annoying volume blasts for commercials on TV.

417 to 3. Wonder who those 3 were.

417 to 3. Wonder who those 3 were.

The telecommunications companies know who these people are.
At least, where they are and the origins of the calls.
Turning them off is actually simple.

However, if the phone bills are paid, law requires them to push
the call through.

This law changes that.

Got rid of the the house phone for just that reason.

From that recent, "You're King of the UNITED STATES" thread........

Damn good start if you ask me.
Day light savings is next.

I got a call from a dot Indian scammer yesterday. I said Sanjay, how the hell are ya? Apu Nahasapeemapedullan is my favorite character on the Simpsons. He said Fugg you and hung up.

One called the other day with a good credit card balance transfer deal. I told him I didn't have a credit card and he called me a sorry m-----f-----. I asked him why he would call me a nasty name and he said "you have no credit card". I asked him if he was from India and he told me Osama Bin Laden was his uncle. I said, "well good, we put that s-o-b on the bottom of the ocean". At that point he hung up.

I worked on a request for quotation from Northrup for a power supply for a new cruise missile in 1984. I designed a prototype and left that small company. In 2005 I visited that company and those power supplies were being made on the production line. Google can find only traces that the missle exists. If that is a representative example, we are already paying for a lot of cruise missiles. We have a military budget of $698.5 billion.

Roaches always find a way in.
Hell, who remembers the “do not call list”?

Doubt I get one a month, and it's the same number since 2001..
Don't give out your number you don't get Robocalls seems to work for me

I don't know how wide spread Spectrum is for the country, but we have bad cell service here at the house and had to get an additional bundled Spectrum land line. Then along came the mostly robo calls. I called Spectrum and they have a system called No More Robo that they added for n/c and the phone rings once and stops for a robo call. It has all but eliminated them here.