000-000-0000

Some people just don't understand hobbies.

You should change your guestname to "Wet Blanket"

The only time I'm pick up on an obviously bogus call like this is if the a'wipe was nearby and it was a big, heavy old time phone. The government nor the carriers are doing anything about these tele scumbags. I suggest whenever you can determine the physical location of the pi$$ants, you kill them.

This 000 number call me today and ask me if I was milk and I said yes by accident, do I worrie or what?

I keep getting calls from +1 0000000000 & an "Unknown" number. I answered once & an Indian woman named "Sharon" said the US picked me to receive a $9000 grant that I don't have to pay back. I kinda chuckled & said "thanks, I guess," because I knew it was a scam. The woman asked if I thought it was a joke & after I said yes, she went on a tirade, called me an idiot, & hung up. Even after that, they're still calling?!

Hello Katie. I still think you should get a call blocker, but you hang in there and do the best you can like we all should.

These [***] called me this afternoon around 4:30pm. It was a robo-call telling me that because my credit was good, they could now lower my APR to a mere 1% if I respond now! I wish it were a live person so that I could've told them to take their offer and shove it up their [***] because I pay my CC debt off each month!

multiple annoying calls

perhaps you should carry the phone with you

Nope

Since "Sharon" called you an idiot then she must think your not smart enough to realize you talked to her the other day. You should play that out as long as you can then reply with hey you dumb "Hunt" with a capital C my government gives me a free headache

Verizon gets paid by them to call you

Sorry you can't see the humor in LuluFord's phone response. Do you really think these scammer dirt bags know whether there is such a division or not? It just gives them something else to consider

below are 2 of the numbers the automatic voice tells me to call +1 818-583-0026 +1 203-565-1565

Access  A-C-C-E-S-S  If - IF (let's say) you are, or you represent, one of the phone companies, and someone asks you to install 50 phone lines, or "hookups", or ACCESS for 50 telephones to dial tones, in (let's say)  a room over a liquor store, and subsequently makes (let's say) about 100 calls per day on each of those phone lines (which you, as the phone company charge that someone for each of those calls), don't you think you might - if you had even ONE THIRD of a brain - suspect that there was (just perhaps) a "boiler room" set up there?  And, just maybe, in that third of a brain, would you not want to check into that "operation" to see if there was any illegal behaviour involved with them - which you are facilitating, by giving them ACCESS to those phone lines??  That is, unless you place your priority toward corporate profits over ethics.  IF - (think about this) just IF the phone companies denied ACCESS to those mythical phone lines, those scumbags would be out of "business"  for good by Tomorrow Morning !!  According to the law(s) here in Maryland, for example, you do not have to actually beat the crap out of someone, but - standing up to, for example, 20 feet away from the victim, you even point a gun at that victim, you can be charged with various assault(s), and go "behind the walls" for quite a while.  The analogy is, the phone companies may or may not actually provide "direct" access to dead phone numbers, but, by providing continued ACCESS to telephone lines, which in turn ACCESS "dead" phone numbers to facilitate scams, the phone companies therefore are providing ACCESS to these scumbags.  Again, without the complicity of those phone companies, these scumbags would be gone tomorrow.   The phone companies may or may not provide these bums with Direct Access to those dead phone numbers, but they certainly provide them with the means to Access them.

And, now, I'm climbing down off my soapbox.  See ya around the campfire.

No, no,no,.  You're not annoying me - It takes a LOT to annoy me.  (I've got 3 sons who are mad at me - so what).  You've got the right idea when it comes to absolutely NOT answering calls from numbers you don't recognize.  I was just trying to "pass along" some suggestion(s) (advice) that has "worked" for me.  And, no matter how well intentioned any comments are, they are all "...up for evaluation".  Geezus! , you wouldn't believe some of the "evaluations" I've gotten.  (you know what they say about opinions)  You seem like a nice person, I doubt you could annoy me - even if you tried.(that's not an invitation to try).

See ya around the campfire !

A business can program their PBX to reject all incoming calls, and give notice the number is "not in service" or whatever they want, or have the phone company program individual numbers to be "outgoing only", thus blocking callbacks.

Google Voice will allow a number to be programmed to lie and say the number is not in service.

https://support.google.com/voice/answer/115089?hl=en&ref_topic=1708123
Block unwanted calls, abuse, and spam
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* Block Caller: The caller will hear a "Number not in service" message when calling your Google number. None of your phones will ring. Blocked calls won't show in your call history as missed calls.

Your whole analogy is so completely flawed and ridiculous that i won't even attempt to debunk that nonsense.  If you truly believe what you just wrote, you have a very large problem.

Automated message "consider this your final call. Press x to lower your rates" I pressed block caller to decrease my scam calls.

Yup but I don't answer no more because I believe it is from the government but the lady knew my name tho