New Rules For Robocalls

made absolutely NO difference.

It’s just amazing that a bunch of mentally ill people are harassing and bothering thousands of normal people. Disgusts me to the core. Somebody should make a movie about this crap, and the movie should end by the sick freaks getting locked up in an insane asylum.

This is great news, but unfortunately, just one company can have hundreds/thousands of people making these calls....all with different numbers to opt-out from. I recently got into it with one of them that called our house 4-5 times a day. Same company, different phone numbers. They told me that my name goes on a list and that every single telemarketer in the company gets that list. Once you've opted out from one number, the next number calls you. I sure hope this works...good luck to us all.

The article about these new regulations does not seem to mention anywhere the worst offenders: the Portfolio Recovery Associates and similar bottom-feeding junk debt extortionists. THose slime ought to be required to have prior written approval to ring anybody's phone number! They have been pestering us for three years now, even after they declared they had "decided to cease collection efforts" on some unverified debt that is nine years past the state statute of limitations for some bank that does not exist.

Shut down the bottom-feeding pond scum junk debt collectors. !!!!  It could be done tomorrow, if the Best Congress Money Can Buy wanted it to be done.

I have an idea to solve this. A phone service / program that, you, program the numbers
you will allow to call you and block all others.

If a number that is not on your call list, calls you, it allows them to leave a message, one time.

You, the receiver, can then decide if you wish to allow that number to, ever, call you again,
by adding it to your 'approved' call list. ( Similar to a "Friend Request" on Facebook )

This way, that one party can only call you, one time and ask for permission, to be able to
complete the call the next time. If you don't approve that number, it's blocked automatically.

Also, have an option to block all, 800, 877, etc numbers.
And all "Private Caller" and "Unknown", tags that come through on the caller id box.
Kind of like a spam control on your email, but for your phone.

Might there be a learning curve, with the set up of this, sure. But in the long run, we'd love it.

We get control back, we decide if we, want to even hear the phone ring.


Ok so, any IT / computer savy people out there?

We put you, to this challenge, to create this and probably make some nice coin while your at it.

What you described is available on Uverse voice and most cell phones. One can program 20-30 numbers that get through, all others are blocked.

I received 2 calls from someone saying they can lower my credit card debt to 6.9%.  The only problem
is, I do not have any debt of any kind.  To add insult to injury I am living in Vancouver, B.C. and the call
comes from the U.S.A.  

I do not know why US companies are targeting us Canadians.  We have our own method of handling
personal debt, so why would we use an American company?  Just leave us Canucks alone.

I am so sick of this and am ready to change my phone number or even cancel it completely.  One more
call and its toast to the phone company and I will get rid of my landline and just use my cell phone.  I do
not get any calls there at all, just my family, as it should be.

Folks read the whole thing......it says that charities are exempt.  They are the ones  who call me on a daily basis...robocall too.  I must get at least 6 to 10 per day and they refuse to take me off their calling list.  So we are left with junk calls all day long.

That's really nice and all but I don't think it's going to make that much difference.  For every rule, there's a way around it!  And what's with the 12 months business?  Doesn't take that long to stop the robocalls!  That's just giving more time for them to think of a new scheme.

That's my other beef.  Why can't they have a block number program for land lines?  The technology is there!

Thanks for the info on Mr Number, catrn!

These rules will only affect legitimate callers, the rouge scammers will ignore them and keep calling. What the FCC needs to do is to lock up the scammers and throw away the keys.

All they need to do is program their massive computers to block unlimited numbers. But for some weird reason they merely let us block 10 or 20 numbers.

You have pretty much described iBlackList that is available for jailbroken iPhones. I use it, and it does a real good job of blocking numbers I tell it to, or unknown/blocked calls. It also works for text messages. It's a great program too bad Apple won't give everyone access to it by allowing it though their store. I had to jailbreak my phone just for this application.

http://www.iblacklist.com.br/

Also, they need to add political calls to this... I was getting a bunch of those for awhile. In my opinion a machine should never be able to call you without your permission.

Fire to machine, and hire the person!

Most debt consolidation scams, I mean companies operate as non-profit organizations. I do believe they are exempt from this as well. I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the case.

I believe it has to to do with profit. The phone companies make money off of these calls. They are paid for the service, and then make additional money off the return calls though the 800 numbers. It's all about the money. It always has been, and always will be.

It's the same reason you can't opt out of the junk mail you get from the postal service. The US Postal Service just launched a campaign though TV advertising to get businesses to use its "Every Door Direct Mail" service to spam us all with unwanted junk mail.

https://www.usps.com/business/every-door-direct-mail.htm

I tried ignoring the calls, to no avail...still get 2-3 a day from 12.114.18. I answer, say nothing, and lay the phone next to the TV where they can enjoy Judge Judy, Survivor, or whatever TV or radio show they chose to interrupt.