How can I remove my CELL phone number from call lists?

As LAMET was last here in 2010, I do not think s/he is the ridiculous one (JoAnn).

I get robocalls daily from Texas numbers. My number has been registered since 2013. How do I get rid of the calls? When I call them back it is a real human. They are fishing for something,  I dont answer,  what can I do?

Have you ever tried to report a phone # to the Do Not Call? They want to know the #, dates, what time of day, what they said,etc. It's Ridiculous, and it is worthless to have your phone registered with them.

is even more worthless is your reply to someone who hasn't been around here for 9 years. Gee, imagine that, they actually want some information instead of just posting a spoofed number. Bet you are one of the first to complain that nothing is being done as well.

Invest in a call blocker which enables you to block entire area codes.

Perhaps we should be asking: "How did my cell phone number get on call lists?" It stands to reason that, if our cell phone numbers never got on call lists in the first place, then we wouldn't be searching for information about how to remove our cell phone numbers from call lists.

Maybe hackers stole our personal information from a vendor's database. Or maybe an employee of a vendor sold our personal information. Or maybe a service provider stored our personal information on an publicly-accessible cloud server in a foreign country.

However our cell phone numbers got on call lists, maybe we should be asking: "Why wasn't my personal information better protected from robocallers?"

Or maybe the telescammers just program their auto-dialer to call numbers in a sequence.

you give an actual explanation as to why they would need a "list" as opposed to simply dialing every 4 digit combination in an area code and exchange? Lists they would have to buy where they could do the latter for free. So, you seem to really know a lot, how about that explanation? Or was you post simply to Ann Noyd us?

Point well taken. But sequential auto-dialers only tell part of the story. I probably should have mentioned that my comments only apply to callers who actually appear to have a call list, and explained a bit more about how 800notes can be used to check for patterns.

If a caller asks for someone by name and the caller-id is a reportable number, then the caller's number and comments about the caller can be reported on 800notes. If several different people report that the same caller asked for them by name, then the pattern begins to suggest a call list.

For example, the caller reported under 727-369-8560 may have a list of Medicare recipients, and the caller reported under 855-723-4610 may have a list of DirectTV or AT&T customers.

The best advice, as others have mentioned, may be to report these types of callers to the appropriate authorities and buy a good call blocker, because it may be difficult or impossible to be removed from these types of lists after telephone scammers have acquired them. Looking beyond short-term solutions, I'm wondering whether more could be done to prevent account information from falling into the wrong hands in the first place?

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maybe we should be asking: "Why wasn't my personal information better protected from robocallers?"

People these days live in a fast paced technological world and have become addicted to the convenience it provides. Consumer carelessness is the main cause of information leakage onto the internet and Marketing Industry. Expecting "someone else" to protect people from their own carelessness is like expecting someone else to make sure burglars don't wander into your house when you leave the doors and windows wide open.

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sequential auto-dialers only tell part of the story. I probably should have mentioned that my comments only apply to callers who actually appear to have a call list, and explained a bit more about how 800notes can be used to check for patterns.

There many, many methods scammers, debt collector and telemarketer use to call victims and those "call lists" are created by each of those scammer, debt collector and telemarketers for their own use. Sure, some might share or sell what they have to others, but its merely a crap shoot to collect numbers called by the same "patterned" caller in identifying who it is, since spoofing is a main method of most of the robo callers.

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Looking beyond short-term solutions, I'm wondering whether more could be done to prevent account information from falling into the wrong hands in the first place?

Yes, there is and its called Public Awareness! The more people are informed of the vulnerabilities of carelessly spreading their personal information in "sign-ups", unknown surveys, Social media websites, etc...the less information will be available to fall into the wrong hands. The Marketing Industry depends on people putting a check in the box that says "you agree...." and never reading the fine print that gives them your permission to share your personal information to their "affiliates", some of them in turn share your info to 'their' affiliates and so on and so on...
People are the victim of their own negligence when it comes to personal information vulnerability and thats where the prevention should begin.

What does your post have to do with the topic of this thread? Nowhere in your comments do you answer the question asked at the top of the page.

"The Marketing Industry depends on people putting a check in the box that says 'you agree....' and never reading the fine print..."

Actually, they usually depend on unwary visitors to not *uncheck* the box that's already checked, to give them permission to "share" (sell) all of your info, far and wide.