New Rules For Robocalls

Sadly, the new law seems to have no effect on Rachel and her band of scammers at credit card services.

Will this apply to collection agency's?

These rules will do NOTHING for all the scam phone calls people get. Scam calls are made by fraudsters who follow no rules. They are constantly changing the phone number they are calling from, which makes it virtually impossible to track them down. Scam calls usually come from boiler room phone banks that can pick up and move in about an hour or so. By the time the FCC could even locate them, they'd be up and running in a new location.

The desperate liars have programmed legit and non-existent numbers in their spoof cards, voip and computers. 99 percent of the calls I've gotten show American area codes. They can play their little games for a while till it backfires on them.

That is a very good and valid question! I have heard that they trick you and it may not be true to press "9" (or whatever number they say!) to be removed from this number because I did it once and they called again twice!!! And then I heard that they can actually suck you into accepting their future calls, and that they can take that as to accept whatever they are selling!! Now, I am not sure which is true! I would rather speak to an actual person because I can tell them to remove our number and after three times I file with the FCC. To me the robocalls are VERY lazy telemarkerters and cannot stand the fact of being rejected! THEY seriously need to be a thing of the past! With the internet, we don't need time to be wasted on telemarketers calling when we did NOT call them first!!!!
You also need to be aware of what you say because some record and then they edit what you say to make it as if you agreed! I ususally just say: "Nope NOT interested, remove this number from your list! Thank you!" And I say it rude enough that they know that there is NO WAY I agreed to anything that they were trying to scam us with!

AMEN**** IT SHOULD APPLY TO ALL! We put our numbers on the list for a reason!!!!!!!!!! To NOT be called, harrassed, or waste our time!!!

I would estimate that at least 90% of the time my home phone rings, it is some cretin looking to scam. I never answer any calls in which I don't know the number. I never answer calls that show up as "unknown." Going out and buying phones that block such numbers is not solving the problem. The problem that needs to be solved is these cretins being allowed to call.

Being on the DNC list has worked very well for me ever since I registered at the beginning. However, the types of robo-calls most of us are complaining about are scams and will continue.

Even though I appreciate the new limitations on robo-calls, we will always get the scam or phishing robo-calls because they don't care about DNC lists, they are spoofing the number - it's not a number that will trace back to them.

I simply hang up each time and will NEVER press 1, or 9, or any other number in response to a robo-call request (a point I never get to anymore, anyway, since I hand up the second I recognize the call for what it is.

To bad the FCC didn't resort to some extreme measure that would really put robocallers in their place, you know, like deploying a federally enforced DoNotCall list. Oh, wait...

The new FCC rules are trying to "make it even more difficult for robocallers to harass consumers at home."  Does this include cell phones?

It does NOTsuprise me that political calls will still be allowed.  The FCC is set up by the government, so they won't lmit themselves from calling us for campaign donations.

Your pharmacy calling about prescription availability is not a harassing call, it is customer service.  Besides, you have a relationship with your pahramacy.

You said it brother!!!!!!!!!

I am averaging 3 calls a day from a phone number that shows on my television as 12.114.18.  On my computer call log the only number displayed is number 1.  Beautiful-calls from an IP address that no one can stop.  I have filed a complaint with the FCC.  I have no idea if it will help.  Just curious if anyone else is receiving calls from 12.114.18?

We shouldn't answer any of their phone calls. Normal human beings answer calls from people who are courageous enough to call with their real phone numbers. Since the callers are subhumans, they dont deserve an answer. Deceptive, cowardly, desperate, and abnormal subhumans can shove their telephones and computers up their ***.

A nice idea, but no guarantee the telemarketers will implement it.

Just like the politicians to outlaw telemarketing robo calls EXCEPT when it applies to them! WTF? This must be changed. Information dissemination/Notifications like the aforementioned school closures and pharmacy prescriptions and appointment reminders are okay as they want nothing from the receiver of the call and perform a service. Politicians are not above the law as much they want to be.