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    Robocalls

    Robocalls are out of control this week. So much for do not call list

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    My wife’s cellphone number ended up in the call queue for US Pharmacy, a bunch of Indian/Pakistani shysters trying to sell prescription drugs on line. For several months they would call and ask for “Marilyn” (not my wife’s name). They didn’t care that it was the wrong number, they would call multiple times a day. My wife would hand me the phone and I’d go to work:
    1. Tried to get a physical address. They hung up.
    2. Tied up the guy for a half hour ordering then tried to get address to send the check to. “We don’t accept checks” I replied “that’s good cause we don’t have any money”. They cussed me for “wasting their time” then hung up.
    3. I asked to speak to a manager. When he came on line I got his name, “Fred” or something. Told him to quit calling me, he cussed me and hung up.
    4. Asked for “Fred” everytime they called and tried to ruin his day. Sang The Star Spangled Banner loudly. He hung up.
    5. Said stuff about sacred cows I won’t print here. They hung up, my wife said “if we go to war with India it’s your fault”.
    6. Started crying when they asked for “Marilyn” and told them she died due to bootleg drugs. I hung up.
    7. Sang the Star Spangled Banner so they couldn’t get a word in several times. They hung up.
    8. They finally gave up

    I’m now getting weekly calls from companies wanting to “help” me with student loans. I never borrowed a cent for tuition, never finished college. Now I’m spending my retired days lecturing them to quit their sinful ways get a decent job.

    It aggravates me that they can spoof a local number or the phone rings once then I get a voice mail with a sales pitch. Their punishment should be locked in a room listening to me sing the national anthem badly for days. IMHO...
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    We still get calls, but our Public service commissioner has slowed them down a lot. He has an easy online system to report them, and once reported he does a good job prosecuting them.
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    I'm retired now, so I take the time to report every call to the do not call registry. It makes me feel better.

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    I get calls from local construction companies ; "We spoke to you last year,,,,,,,,yada,yada,yada?......... If all my Dr's, Insurance Co. & Phamacies could understand the CONCEPT of calling my cellphone, I'd just rip the house phone out a the wall.
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    Be careful a friend of mine gave a caller a hard time. For 2 weeks they drove her nuts calling all hours of the nite waking her up. She had to finilly take the phone off the hook.
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    we had 2 business lines .. were getting 20 to 30 auto dial calls a day. Switched over to VOIP lines (1-VOIP is the company we went with)
    they have NOMOROBO service along with manual blocking , black lists ect .. Now I might get 1 day... most days none
    I can go on their web site and see every incoming call number, location and length of call including all the blocked calls .. So far its been great. also saving over $150.00 a month verses the 2 business lines..
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    I put the phone next to a speaker and turn on either rush, red state radio, or mark levin.

    They don't call back.

    One of these days I'll cue up hillary or obama speeches. See what happens.

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    Got a call on my cell phone the other day. It was my cell phone number that was calling me. Obviously, I didn't answer. Mrs. smokeywolf got the call a little later (her number). It's a computer with the ability to spoof the number it's dialing.
    I suspect they're just trying to compile a list of valid numbers to sell to marketing companies.
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    ve their "No caal list" but it doesn't do much. Our elected officials want campaign contributions from phone companies.

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    One thing to remember is these companies require xxx calls a day to be profitable. I keep them on the line as long as possible. ( I really like the ones that don't get there auto disconnects set correctly these Ive kept on the line and tied up for 45 mins or more). Other wise go to one of the choices and drag it out as long as possible tying them up and using up their time to make calls. Can you speak up I didn't hear you is good for dragging them out.
    The ones that truly annoy me are the banks and credit cards calling and asking for my wife ( She was killed in an auto accident in 2002). These I drag out and then give them the cematarys street address to contact her.

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    I have the most fun with the credit card / balance transfer ones; I say that my card is in my desk in the other room if they can wait a minute, then set the phone down for 4-5 minutes. If they're still on the line, I say I have the card etc. When they ask for the exp. date, I give one for last year; they point that out so I say, 'oops that must be the old card' and repeat the routine. Or give them a cc #, have them read it back to me, then correct them - again and again. Love this routine; if they end up losing it & swearing in Hindi at me, I consider it a job well done.

    One guy was wondering why it took me so long to get the card; I told them it was in my desk at home, and I was driving that way. And added that home was 400 miles away, lol. Come up with a good script (that lets you spend most of the time w/ the phone down & doing other things), and you can drag them out for a long time.
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    At the rate I'm going, I'll be on the state 10 most wanted list soon. There must be 20-30 serious warrants out for me by now.

    If a name or recognizable number doesn't come up on the screen, we don't answer it. That's what voicemail is for.

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    I am glad that we have the caller ID option on our land line phone. When the phone rings, actually not very often anymore, if we don`t know the number or the name we just let it ring till my `I`m not here` message comes on. Most of the calls ring about 4 - 5 rings then stop, if they go all the 7 rings to get my message they usually cut out half way thru my drawl about leave me a message. I used to tell the caller, if indeed it was a human, that there was someone at my door and hold the line till I return - I sit the phone down and come back about 30 minutes later to just a dial tone. Lately the Robo`s are political parties wanting to know who I will be voteing for this year, or what my party affilation is, none of their darn business how I`ll vote!Robert

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    the do not call list while a wonderful idea, like anything the gvmnt gets involved with, is worthless.

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    I've been getting calls that say "This is Mary from the credit department", then she stops and the phone disconnects. I can't figure that one out.

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    AT&T and Goggle Listing calls at least 6 times every day....I press the "take off the list" number every time...it must be broken!
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    I don't have a land line, just cell. So i have my settings set that doesn't accept unknown numbers, it gets routed to voicemail. If its important, they can leave a message. Ill sometimes answer if im expecting a call otherwise you have to be in my phonebook or leave a voicemail. At a time I chose, my phone goes to the dont disturb mode where it won't make a peep to wake me other than for select people in my phonebook are allowed to wake me. I love it. Spammers can pound sand and I can continue to be interrupted.
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    I talk to them, get them all worked up on a sale, and ask them to call me tomorrow at my work number-- then i give them the phone number to the local FBI office .
    Oh- and I use "Mr Number" app on my cell.
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    I got the IRS spoof today. I don't get as many since I started explaining that Mr & Mrs ----- are both in a rest home and I'm just the care taker.
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