New Rules For Robocalls

But Just remember, if WE CALL THE WHITE HOUSE like this we will be ripped from our homes and put in a dungeon for life!!!! Why did they ever make a law thats non-effective? and moreso there is info out there behind WHOM makes some of these calls...still nothing is ever done....keep in mind, this isnt the X-boyfriend or girlfriend making ten calls and getting fined or arrested...this is some idiot calling almost a million people and getting away with it.

phone companies dont care.....sometimes I swear they sent the callers to me.
The Best feature I used was "Do Not Disturb", much cheaper than what they want you to spend more money on called "call intercept". the only drawback is the dnd blocks just about everyone and lets you have up to 15 on the list to get through, and not so bad, you can issue a password (which is easy to change fast if needed) Hey I like the phone to sit there and make no noise.

No one is above the law. Even the pests that bother, harass and try to scam people are accountable for their actions.

Meh, you've blogged a mouthful! Well-expressed; I had not realized that the local calls generally don't bother me until you mentioned it. Does ANYONE know of a way to block NON-local charities from calling? Is there ANY legal way to block political robocalls? [Unless my mind is absolutely made up, I will NEVER vote for a candidate who has robocalled me -- and I email the relevant party to that effect, naming names.]

With the "intelligence" capabilities of the nation, a person would think the government could easily track down these telemarketers and bust them.  But no, they are spending 2.1 Billion dollars on a National Security Agency building to house the equipment to spy on this countries citizens that are not on their politically acceptable list.

" Does ANYONE know of a way to block NON-local charities from calling? Is there ANY legal way to block political robocalls?"

Selective Call Blocking it legal, safe and effective all across this Great Land of Ours, insofar as YT knows.  Although the landline telcos seem to not want to implement the feature very much (might be a couple of Global Corporate Agenda-related reasons for this absence, hm?), both SKYPE and ComCast VOIP do a fine job of it.

Hey, there is this Internet.  Many tools low-cost and 'way powerful tools all from one low-ticket monthly subscription.  We all intrinsically own the Right to be Left in Peace, No Matter What; it's merely a matter of *enforcing* it, ya' dig?  Why should anyone ever pay more for less of what we are entitled to in our lives and homes, let alone our businesses?  

Genuine peace and joy to all!  I'm out.  And that is all.  :)

I average 3 calls a day from debt collectors calling the wrong number.  The debt collectors call for a handful of different people, so I suppose whoever had my number before me had some kinda scam going.  At first I tried getting past the robo nonsense to let the debt collectors know they were calling the wrong number, but when they kept calling regardless I decided they were morons too stupid to understand that calling the wrong number everyday was not going to get the debt paid off.  Now two years have past and the same stupid debt collectors call on a regular basis.  

Now, I just leave my ringer off at all time, caller ID will tell me if I missed any 'real' calls.  The rest I just ignore and delete.

I had a similar problem with debt collectors calling the former owner of my phone number several years ago. I got a new number because I moved and started getting all of these calls from a collections agency for a woman I'd never heard of. I would tell them over and over again that I was in no way connected with her yet they kept calling and when my wife answered the phone, they'd try to say she was the woman who owed the money!

Using CallerID infoformation, I tracked down the company that was making the calls, which came from various call centers around the country. I contacted my phone company's harassing phone calls department and they opened up a case for me, but told me what I would have to do is write a certfied letter to the collections agency stating the debts were not my debts and to stop calling me. If that didn't help, they could then step in and try to assist me.

I sent the letter and even before the green card came back, the calls stopped and I never heard from them again. However, I did hear from a bank this woman was applying for a loan from, along with her pharmacy saying prescriptions were ready, and someone looking for this woman's daughter, but eventually, all of those stopped too.  

If you can figure out where these collectors are, contact them by mail and they will stop and if they don't, file a harassing phone calls complaint with your phone company.

Good Luck.

If my pharmacist uses a robo-call system, it had better have a name displayed! For months, we missed calls from our local library until we answered a call to tell them to leave us alone. Now the name is recorded in my phone and it displays when that number appears. Why can't the Town of ... include its name? Rule 1: If we don't know who it is, we do not answer. I often wonder how many parishioners are not getting through. But then, they won't answer if I don't allow my name to be displayed from my cell phone (which has a long-distance plan, but my land line does not). And I have to pay when they use that number to call me. I am not re-imbursed.
Bear in mind that we pay for telephone service for our convenience, not that of telemarketers. When they pay for my phone connection, I still won't answer them.
And Rule 2: only family are answered during meal time, including preparation. So even if I might have answered my library, I won't if I am cooking or when we sit down to eat (yes, we still eat together as a family).
These auto-dial calls have introduced decay in the communications system whereby fewer and fewer people are ansering without the display and then choosing which ones to answer. The system is no longer working effectively.

When I see a robocall number coming in, I pick up the phone and put it down on the desk and walk away for a while. I figure if everyond does that it'll slow the robocalls down and make them less profitable. Sometimes if I hear a voice, I'll speak to them, say "wow, I'm intersted" and then tell them "I have to go turn off the stove so I can talk to you about this some more." Then I put the phone down, walk away and don't pick up again until they finally hang up.

Anything I can do to slow them down. And it's fun playing with them.

Im already overpaying for trashy phone service. Why should i have to get another service to block these calls?

I've read almost all the previous posts re: robocalls, etc.  I agree that it is so, so sad that we spend billions on other countries, propping up governments that still jack us around, as well as citizens in the u.s., and the many "visitors", yet our government is more than capable of  reading a license plate number from sateli
tes, yet cannot track down some creeps wasting our time and disturbing our peace? Ya, right.  Let's face it, we and our complaints rank low on the priority list of pooliticians, who want our money and we give them all kinds of power.   Frankly, I think  "wildnwooley" has the best idea in handling this giant pain, when you want to have a little fun, pick up the phone and then set it down, until after a few times, the spammer decides that this number is not the usual pacifist.  I want to commend you, "wildnwooley".  In the meantime, we very rarely pick up our phone unless we know who is calling.  And I would love to know exactly how many laws are 'on the books' regarding undesired or irritating phone calls, that have any real 'teeth' and are enforced?  Anyone know?  Just curious.

Makes one wonder, something is seriously wrong somewhere.

Or better still, give the phone to your 1-year-old!

By now we all know that this ploy did not work. Check the postings at the home page here. The deluge of calls from Rachel and her kith and kin have continued without apparently pausing to even take a breath.

My personal opinion (note personal opinion) that goes back to August, 2007, is that the money and the legislation are hand-in-glove. Someone who is making money from this abuse of the telephone wants to make certain that the "gusher of scammed money" keeps gushing. And that is my rant for this morning.