Perhaps you should consult your service provider and ask them, since they would be the ones who would know.
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Jim-LA
Hopefully the ability to block spoofed calls for most of us will become a reality soon. Because of the increased volume of scam calls coming into the USA, the FCC has proposed new rules to block spoofed foreign telescum calls and texts. Read more here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2019 ... cams/1675923001
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Rick
The article is vague about how law enforcement can achieve results overseas.
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Me
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I suggest turning off the ringer on your landline. Legitimate callers will leave a message but few telejerks will. On your cell phone, at least iphones, set to allow calls only from numbers in your contact list. In my experience, blocking only works occasionally since junk callers seem to be able to spoof a never ending set of numbers. And it is neither fun nor particularly practical to individually block all the bad numbers that call you.
For land lines, a challenge-response call blocker will do the trick. No telecriminal rings, not even one.
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Make My Day !
When you really want to kick their butts ( Such is my case ) , dial *72 ( call forwarding ) to a disconnected #. They can't get around it. My landline is just a paperweight that makes outgoing calls and costs $30 a month !
In Canada, where I live, even if you have "call blocking" or "call privacy", if you call a 1800 number, they can still see your phone number and sometime your name .New here and I don't know if this issue was covered. See my message on how BMO Mastercard stole almost 600 of my Airmies when I could not make payments anymore and they will not send me a copy of the credit card application to prove that thye can, as they say, take these miles that they offered me way back when.
Yes - I agree, somehow the scammers are able to get information from resumes, I have had this happen and it is irritating to have some unknown realtor knowing all personal information having the balls to contact via text if you want to sell your home at xyz address and I know it was taken from a job application because the realtor was from exact area as the employer applied to. Somehow, some way the information was shared with them with out my consent.
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michelle
I am getting text messages from someone who thinks they know me..every new phone I buy ,new number,everything this person still finds me. I dont have a social media account on the phone but do like to look at the outside pages of this one particular social media website..like I said I dont have an account with them but pretty sure this person is from that site. how do i block this person? I was told you can look at these pages withoiut logging in..perhaps I am still in the system even while looking...not actively using it.
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Jane Doe
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I know this is an old thread. But if it's a "legit" debt collector and you say "Don't call this number" they are *legally* required to abide by that request (or they can be in trouble for "harassment"). If it's a scam, you are under NO obligation to pay them anyway. Because, well, a scam. And I have have absolutely no problem with blocking even "legit" numbers that have been spoofed. Because, well, it's a scam.... The more people just don't answer these kinds of calls, the less money the scammers make, and every time someone actually ANSWERS they run the risk of being scammed -- which means that the scammers will just continue. We decided it was worth the $8/month to Verizon to get caller ID on our landline and cellphones. I got six calls on the landline on Friday *alone*, all of which came up as "Unknown Name" or "Potential Spam". Now if I could just get a system that blocked them before they came in (or at least picked up on zero rings if it comes through saying that, I'd be in 7th Heaven. We first got an answering machine years ago because some dingaling would misdial and call us at 6 AM to say she'd be late to work (our number was one off from a dry cleaner's at the time). My husband told her if she called the house again we'd call her boss and have her fired.... Sadly, we could NOT find an machine that picked up on "no rings". At one point my husband would get calls for a pizza parlor (again, one number off from his) and would say "Yeah sure" because he knew the place was closed for the night. I don't think the morons (who were, I suspect, drunk stupid frat boys) ever caught on why their pizza never arrived....
The land-line blocking device you're looking for is called a "challenge-response" type call blocker. These blockers intercept calls that are not already on its internal white list (which you can populate by hand, if desired), and asks the caller to punch a specific digit to get through. Those already on your white list will get through like normal. Legit callers will punch the digit and get through, adding them to your white list automatically. Telecriminals never do. I've had one of these devices for over five years, and no telecriminal has ever punched through. Not once. (I guess they figure if you have a blocker, you're savvy enough that they can't fool you into giving them your money.) Telecriminal calls don't ring...not even once. I typically get between 10 and 25 telecriminal calls *each and every weekday*. (You can still see the calls on your CID log, if you so choose.) Bliss in a box.
This device is available on that large on-line retail store for about eighty bucks. (Site policy forbids me from giving the name of the device here, because it's construed as advertising.) Figure out which one it is from the descriptions.
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