NoMoRobo

My NOMOROBO has been up and running for about 4 days. I am seeing the same thing here. at least 5 calls were nailed before the phone even rang once. One did ring once. One call from good ole Rachael of Card Services was not blocked, but promptly reported to NOMOROBO to add to their list.

NOMOROBO is not a service offered by your carrier. It is a service offered by NOMOROBO itself. There is no charge for NOMOROBO (I have heard that it is being financed by funds earmarked for the FCC or FTC that would have normally gone to pay for enforcement actions, which are pretty much impossible these days due to number spoofing).
Your carrier simply provides the technology (Answer Anywhere/Call Following) that allows NOMOROBO to work.

According to internet sources:  Nomorobo is only available in the United States.  As of last November, Nomorobo was protecting 18,000 lines, including on 5 VoIP carriers.  Nomorobo works with US carriers that support “simultaneous ringing” (SR).  This includes some landlines, but most of these carriers provide VoIP services at present.  

The carrier does not pay for the basic Nomorobo service, it is free to them.  Carriers may have some relatively small costs to install the SR feature on their network.  Once SR is in place, the subscriber registers their phone with Nomorobo and Nomorobo activates it with their carrier for free.

Virgin Mobile has a US presence using services from Sprint, but I can’t find where they offer VoIP service and it’s not included in their Broadband2go package.  Nor does it seem Virgin offers SR in the UK or anyplace else.  If they were to offer SR, maybe Nomorobo would consider providing their service internationally for a fee.

I received a robocall today from this new number, 815-373-5201, it left an message about how I can reduce my credit card amount. I googled the number and it was a "telemarketing farm," where all they do is call numbers all day long. I want this number to quit calling me. I do have a phone blocker and I've programmed my phone to tell me who's calling me and I have a "blacklist" of numbers that I want to share.
Whom do I contact?

Note that some big carriers -- AT&T, at least in northern California -- do not offer simultaneous ringing and have no plans to offer it. When I contacted them, they were eager to sell me additional services, none of which would help. I suspect AT&T is not long for this world, especially if the product for which I pay them does little more than annoy me on a regular basis. We will probably ditch the land line and go with VOIP, if that's the only way to stop these calls.

You have posted under the wrong forum topic. This forum topic is for discussing the new Nomorobo service.

Please post your comment under the phone number thread. Maybe someone there will want your personal blacklist. Nomorobo uses a blacklist based on complaints filed with the DNC.

This is an article with an excellent video on how nomorobo works

http://www.wtop.com/209/3543294/Service-blocks-robocalls-for-you

My question is: If you have calls forwarded already, how will you forward calls to nomorobo and then to your original forwarded number? The video fails to address this question but its more of an intro to the technology than a faq. I'm sure there's an answer.

NOMOROBO does not use call forwarding. It uses Answer Anywhere/Follow Me technology which is simultaneous ringing. With this feature, a caller is able to ring up to 5 (depending on your carrier) different phone numbers that have been added to the users list. Therefore when you add NOMOROBO and say your cell phone number to the list, you can answer someone calling your home phone from your cell phone and have the advantage of sticking it to telemarketers.

I have been pestering Comcast in Northern Virginia for years about getting Simultaneous Ring so my home phone (Comcast) would ring the same time as my cell phone (AT&T) so that I could catch incoming calls wherever they ring. It appears that they have finally come through because yesterday (1/23/14) I set it up, along with NoMoRoBo and to my surprise, it appears to work. The Simultaneous Ring works and only time will tell how well NoMoRoBo works. At the moment all appears to work as advertised and I am very happy. Too bad that they cannot block political calls.

I have had NOMOROBO going for about a month now and yes, it seems to be working better than I expected. I have had about 3 robocallers out of about 118 robocalls get thru, but they were immediately reported to NOMOROBO and I know that at least one of those 3 tried calling again yesterday and got blocked. Now that I am convinced that NOMOROBO is working well, I am going to also go ahead and hook my Teleblocker back up to eliminate the calls from "Unavailable" which are not yet being blocked by NOMOROBO (I suspect because individuals that may decide to block their number from being seen are not considered Robocallers). I am curious to see if NOMOROBO is blocking calls from 000-000-0000 and "Out of Area" that we are all used to seeing? Anyway, NOMOROBO is a great service and works very well. It is not (as many government conspiracy fans believe , and the Telemarketing Lobby would like you to believe) an NSA ploy to spy on who is calling you. I have also already proven by doing some tests myself that it does not unintentionally block calls from Doctors, Pharmacies, Schools, and Emergency Alert systems (which all use registered robocallers). It only blocks calls from illegal non-registered robocallers. I believe that both registered charity organization and political calls are exempt due to registered legal robocallers.

Nomorobo news update (compiled from NBC, ABC and other news sources in the past week):

•  Website visitors now 737 per day, up from 300 per day in November (145% increase)
•  Has 45,000 subscribers, up from 14,000 in November (221% increase)
•  Now blocking 48,000 robocalls per week (up ~100% from a monthly total of 100,000 in October)
•  Blacklist now covers 1.3 million callers
•  Cable giants Time Warner and Comcast now offer Nomorobo.  Cox is expected to offer it to their residential customers soon.

Nomorobo makes money by charging commercial users a fee based on their call volume.  Ironically, call centers for legitimate businesses -- say, ones selling flowers through an 800 number -- get hit by robocallers the same way consumers do.  They can't afford to have their lines tied up by robocalls, so they turn to Nomorobo for relief.

It seems traditional landline phone companies are now opposing Nomorobo on the grounds that it would be illegal for them to offer the service.  According to a Telco industry spokesman, landline phone providers have to be very careful about how they address the robocall issue, because they are governed by regulations that do not apply to cable companies and other VoIP phone services.  For example (they say) the FCC requires them to complete all calls and specifically prohibits them from blocking any calls.  The Telco industry spokesman also said a solution is probably one to two years away.  

Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., chairwoman of the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, doesn’t want to wait that long.  “It’s time for the telecom industry to do its part to help combat illegal robocalls,” McCaskill said in a statement.  “Nomorobo and other technologies offer consumers greater options to combat this problem, and it’s disappointing that these solutions have not been embraced by our phone companies.”

Sen. McCaskill said it’s become clear that Congress must act to “provide regulators with a robust set of tools to fight these fraudsters.”  She plans to introduce legislation to do that in the coming weeks.  

Sounds like the landline Telco’s are going to lose another excuse soon if McCaskill is succesful, but then they will find a new excuse.  They are fighting to prevent the potential loss of revenues (DIP fees, revenue sharing, etc) they collect from the illegal robocalls.  

How long will it take for landline Telco’s to listen to one of the biggest complaints from their customers and fix the robocall problem?

Hello Jim
I followed you from the other thread but decided to post my question here.  What if I would like to add a spoofed number to NoMoRobo database or "blacklist"?  do they allow you to do that or that is left strictly up to confirmed robocallers.  For instance, I get plenty of calls from spoofed numbers, from the same person, if he is not using a robo caller and manually calling, will I be able to manually add those spoofed numbers so NoMoRobo can catch the numbers and hang up without my phone people having to do anything.  That would be PERFECT!

Johnny,

I'm not a Nomorobo customer (yet) so I can't answer your question. Maybe one of the other posters who has the service can tell us how the blacklist feature works for them and if they are allowed to contribute to it.

Have now opened a ticket with my carrier voipo to have nomorobo added as a feature. They have yet to respond to the request but I will keep asking periodically and hope others who use voipo will do the same. Think this is a wonderful new technology and am reading only good things about. On the other hand, its sort of like being the kid who sees everyone else with the new toy but can't get it themselves yet. I'll keep bugging "Santa".

Yes, there is a feature on the NOMOROBO dashboard that lets you report telemarketer numbers that had made it thru, along with being able to remove numbers that should not have been blocked. From what I understand, all "legal" robocalling machines that are registered will not be blocked (such as those used by schools, doctors, pharmacies, and civil emergency alert systems). Apparently when legal users purchase their robocall machines, they are supposed to register them with a database maintained by their carrier. If this is the case, it should make NOMOROBO's ability to weed out the illegal ones easier. Even though, I suspect their are some "legal" machines out there that may still accidentally get blocked.