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This is what I do as well. Then I block the number if they don't leave a message. Doesn't stop them forever but it shuts the down that attempt.
I don't do business over the phone and I if I get an email from someone claiming to be someone I do business with. I take a look at their email address. Their email address will tell you a lot.

You're a better man than I if you can remember every phone number from every person you know.

I fell for one just recently. Bought a state park pass from my computer and was going to link my phone to it using a QR code the state sent me. Clicked on the code and got a message to verify my purchase. Looked legit, so I put in my credit card. Ohhhhh crap. Immediately got put on a $50/month music and video subscription that had no link to cancel. Card company wiped the charge, blocked the source, and sent me a new card. Still a pain in the keister to now change my automatic payments, but better than being cleaned out.

If this had happened on my computer, I would never have fallen for it. But I use the phone so seldom - and never as a computer - that was easily tricked.

No one is saying they do. What we are saying is don’t answer if it’s not a known number in your contact list. If you haven’t saved that number to your phone, let it go to voice mail. If it’s legit they’ll leave a voice mail and you can add them as a contact if you want.
Just answering every time it rings is madness.

it won't do any good . scammers almost always spoof dial.

I've had numerous calls showing they originated in small towns all across Idaho. All are fake, of course, and none leave messages. Most likely they were computer generated and just looking for someone to answer to tell them it's a real number. Sales/scam calls will follow if you answer.

question: if a scammer calls and you don't answer, letting it go to voice mail, does the voice mail show up on their end as an answered call?

When you have 40 million illegals in America with no jobs, what do you think is going to happen ??

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Yup. Thats how I handle it but my wife has to answer because of potential customers. We may set up a seperate phone for the business.

^ ^ ^ This. Plus there are times when I message my cardiologist and there's a good chance a nurse will contact me by a cell phone that I don't have on my contact list. I need to take the call when it comes in otherwise I'll be playing phone tag all day with them.

Have land line into home...no discount given by phone/internet company

So I keep the land line........but never answer it...

My CC info was swiped, apparently from the well-known Home Depot hack. The joke was on them however, as I was in the middle of my divorce and when they tried to buy a plane ticket with it, they ran into the credit limit.

Hard to steal from a broke person…..

When that rare one that doesn't quite seem like a scam pops up, I get on my desktop and log in to which ever business is in question. Iffen there is a prob, you will find it on the company website.

No VM set up here. If it's important they will call back.

Steve, a suggestion. Why not ditch your ATT email completely and free yourself from the nonstop Trump assault and woke pitching? I have had my ATT account forever but am moving away from it.
I am moving to mailfence.com for better security and to flush all the spamware directed at my old email because it has been around so long.