new twist on telemarketers

[starmac]

Back when I owned a shop, I ran 24 hour wrecker and road side service for semi trucks. I can not tell you how many times I would get woke up at 2 am and have a foreign truck driver rattle off a bunch of huey in my ear. I would always tell them to call back when they could speak english. I could nevver figure out if they actually thought I would get dressed and start out looking for them, with no idea of where they were at.
years ago, I would use a pay phone and call home once in a while, when I was on the road. I dialed an operator once to make a collect call, and before I ever spoke, the operator rattled off a bunch of spanish. when she was finished, I said, lady, what makes you think I understood a word of that, she told me she thought I was spanish. I had not said a word, so I ask her what gave her that idea, could she see over the phone? lol

[samari46]

Supposedly there were about 5 companies that were fined a few million bucks for their robo calls. As far as I'm concerned it hasn't made a bit of difference. Frank

[wch]

I had been plagued with robocalls and telemarketers to the extent that I had to start blocking calls from any unrecognized number I saw on caller ID.
Since I started doing that the number of spurious calls has dropped dramatically.

[MaryB]

5 robo calls so far today... typical is 6-7...

[MT Gianni]

What does it mean when you get one of these calls from your own number?

Weirdest thing I ever saw was my name on caller ID. Turned out to be a 2nd cousin but still odd to see.