Does anyone use the digitone callblocker pro that blocks actual names and how does it work. can you wildcard a name
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Antonino
I use a free app called mr.number. It has caller id and if the number is unknown it will id it and block the number and texts but is only for cell phones...just an idea.
Tell Verizon you do not want to accept Internet based phone calls.. The problem stops.
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Shorty
Who here uses the digitone call blocker pro and do you like it. It does not block many numbers but It has the ability to block names which seems nice
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GregT
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I have a Verizon land line with simultaneous ring and I use nomorobo.com to block calls daily. I also use a ten year old telezapper for calls that are not yet on nomorobo.com 99% of the telemarketer calls are blocked. I also have an old fashioned answering machine, and my friends know to leave a message. I will pickup during the message, only if I know the person. I do not pickup for friends when they call during dinner or my 3 favorite TV shows. The best part is I do not have to do any maintenance. Other nomorobo.com users are registering bad numbers for me. Thanks.
100% agreed. Nomorobo is the answer to a prayer! And if that isn't enough, Panasonic has a series of phones (e.g. Panasonic KX-TG9333T) that can block up to 250 numbers! You can even set the phone not to sound on the first ring so it can intercept the call before you hear anything. This is a great personalized "Do Not Call List" for otherwise "legitimate" callers you just don't want to talk to.
Nomo isn't available to everyone yet. Wish it was, it would be helpful! Meanwhile, those who do not have this available, its simply call blockers that we get to work with to stop the calls.
go onto bing, enter call blocking devices...did it and first one was for T Lock on sale for 39.95 never used it but going to look into it further
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bradrob
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Do it for free... There are services that will do it for free. If I put the name here, my post might be blocked but the one I use was the "Winner of the FTC Robocall Challenge" in I think it was 2013 so search for that quoted phrase in your favorite search engine.
There is an entire thread dedicated to that no mo service, right here on 800notes! Problem: not all carriers have the required "simultaneous ring" feature.
Two weeks ago I bought a Panasonic KX-TG572 corded(1)/cordless(2) phone set from Costco. l had been looking for awhile for this combination that had a 250 blocking capacity instead of the usual 30.It is new in the line,came out in January. It can block individual ,entire area codes,unknown, private and witheld numbers. This has been the best investment and the most peaceful two weeks that I have in a while.
I have been using the free version of YouMail. Initially you could block whole area codes unavailable, and unknown, as well as ditch phone calls before they ring. Those features are still available, but now some are a part of a pd package. I still use the free version, I just add the number to the blocked feature, which is user friendly. In addition you get free voice mail. Not bad for free service.
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Alien
Retired Computer Forensic Investigator here:
After reading this entire thread I wish to add my 2 cents forth, please feel free to ignore.
1) There will be no help from the telco world, (phone companies), as they make a very sizable profit from the activities of the individuals you are trying to mitigate.
2) There will be no help from the politicians since a sizable amount of their campaign contributions, (bribes for lack of a better word), come from item #1.
3) Trying to interact with these pedophiles will usually result in some sort of revenge that will only cost you more headache and lost time. Suppose that the spoofed number they use to make their calls suddenly becomes your phone number and now you have to deal with all of those angry people calling back. Or, someone takes the advice of those geniuses here that want to redirect all of their sales calls back to said spoofed number. I have worked such cases and the phone literally does not stop ringing; ever!
4) No, law enforcement cannot help. OK, you go over to some third-world Sh**-hole and find and arrest the individual making the calls. Oops, that individual is a government official or law enforcement official. Yeah, see how well that works. For some areas of the world this is a significant amount of their annual income.
5) I am not referring to any specific company; however, in my experience you have to be very careful with using services which route your calls to their service for processing. Data mining is a very, (did I say very), lucrative business. You are sending them a complete, and dynamic, list of good phone numbers. Just saying!
6) I have seen people suggest that they just pick up the phone and then hang-up. This does not solve the issue as your number retains its "good" or "unknown" label in the scammers database. It will just be tried again, and again, and again. Right now the calls I do not answer go to an answering machine that first plays the "Line Disconnected Tone" and message. Then after a pause it plays the beep and records. I just tell my white-list to wait for the tone and disregard the message. The advantage of this is that a lot of robo-dialers will mark such numbers as "bad". I went from 15-20 calls a day down to 2 a week using this method.
For those of you who do not know how a robo-dialer works: when an operator is free it will call 10, or so, numbers. When someone answers one of those numbers the call is routed to the available operator. The other nine calls are hung up on. That is why your phone may ring once or twice and then quit; or, when you answer the line is dead. Do not worry; they will eventually get back to you!
7) Finally; unless the caller is confirmed to be from a reputable establishment calling the number back and asking to be removed from the list only does one thing: it upgrades your number in their database to "confirmed good". Your number now commands a higher price when they sell it to other scammers. Your goal is to get your number to be listed as "Bad" and the best way to do that is to not answer, ever; and possibly combine that with the use the "disconnected tone" to hasten that listing. I get tired of hearing that they have to legally remove my number if I ask. They are breaking the law by calling you in the first place and you think they will respect the law when it comes to removing your number?
It always amazed me when a store owner who was just a victim of an armed robbery would complain that armed criminal just walked right by the "We Ban Guns" sign in their window! Yes, they actually expected the criminal to honor the sign. Well, these scammers are not about to honor anything except your credit card numbers!
The sad fact is that until items #1 and items #2 are corrected it will be on the individual user to fight this out.
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