Blow a whistle in their ear

Oh the heck with it.  You idiots are all positive you have been wronged and you all want your revenge.  No matter if it does a darn bit of good or not, you want what you perceive as the pound of flesh you are owed.  But don't be ticked off if your boat horn wakes up someone's infant or sainted Aunt and your car ends up keyed and sitting on 4 slashed tires.

I'm getting five or six of these calls a day, but...........blowing a whistle in their ear is counterproductive. If it's a computer, "it" doesn't hear your whistle and wouldn't care anyway. If it's a "live" person, you may have some repercussions, like annoying calls in the middle of the night, etc.

Today in 2017, legitimate charities, political campaigners and/or "telephone surveyors" use pre-recorded messages that 1) protect call operators from the whistle in ear abuse and 2) advance notify the one called they ARE exempt from Do Not Call laws. It's critical to note that ALL 3 of these allowed groups DO NOT give the one called to press 1 or 2 to accept or reject the call; you simply hang up, and that's it.  Bottom line: Let your voicemail service receive any and all un-familiar / unknown long distance calls---if they DON'T leave a call back message, they're frauds who only APPEAR to be calling inside the U.S.

You think the $7 you spent to damage your own hearing is the best $7 you've ever spent? That makes no sense.

You hit it all right on the head, Fed Up! Well said. I too have never had anyone truly stop calling, only for a while then they start up again.  And if someone blows a whistle in a caller's ear for unsolicited calling on a do-not-call number, I have no sympathy.  I get at least half a dozen calls each day - mostly robo calls that are illegal - I am about to cancel my land line for just that reason.  Maybe one out of every 20 calls is legitimate.  If someone's job is to contribute to my misery, don't be surprised if I respond negatively!

" ... they ARE exempt from Do Not Call laws."

Not entirely. They are required to maintain an internal Do-Not-Call list of their own.

I worked out another system but you won't like it.   I get about 2 calls a month.  Total.  But since it does not offer you the chance to be indignant and potentially (in your revenge dreams) damage someone's hearing, I suppose you have no interest.  And I am not unique here.  I see names posting in this thread of people who were once pelted with calls and now are getting less than one call a month.

So you can praise "Fed-Up" and "Mike" all you want, but instead of asking if whistles or boat horns are the preferred weapon, maybe you need to be thinking up better questions.  Maybe you best be asking or listening to wiser and more experienced people how to stop the calls.  When I say "Whistles Don't Work", I don't mean that whistles don't cause enough damage.  I mean that there are better ways to cut down on the number of calls.  Ways that do work.

-- For the record: I have a Land line and a cell.  I am as appetizing  to scammers as anyone else.  I don't use a call blocker.   I don't block my number on outgoing calls.  3 years ago I was getting 15-18 calls a week.  Not one single political call in 2016, and yes, I do vote.

Hey B, my system is really simple, just don't answer any unknown number, they go on and pester someone else. Works for me and saves money on whistle's and air horns. I don't get many phone calls now day's and everything is just fine.

If you place your name on the do not call list, yet you get spam calls daily, even hourly, from the same twits over and overy again, trying to get your personal info, then they should consider it a job hazard. But, I don't think anyone should try to deafen anyone. Sing stupid songs or repeat nursery rhymes. As for fundraisers, that's a different matter. But even some of them will either argue or even hang up on householders if they can't get money!

Please share your secret

Do Not Call only applies to for-profit businesses, not charities, not political organizations.

I am on the do not call list & have been since day one.  It worked for about a month & it has since gotten progressively worse.  Two to three a day plus at least one on my cell phone.  I have Mr Number on my phone so it never rings thru & sadly I have all the ringers turned off on my landline.  Friends know to lv a msg because I never hear the phone.  It wakes me up at all hours so I just turned the ringers off.......my phone has now become a nuisance & I think that's pretty sad.  I know of no way to stop these roaches.  Even if I block a #, they call back over & over & over.  When they tire of that, they go to the next #.  Too bad we don't have a Mr Number for landlines.  This really sucks.  I believe the local phone companies could stop this but they make money selling huge blocks of #s so what do they care......