<p>I just got a robo call about a Washington issue. I don’t live in WA. Don’t own property there. Don’t have any link (other than CC ) thAt could link me with WAissues.</p>
<p>So who’s selling our names out there?</p>
<p>Gates foundation?
What was the issue?</p>
<p>And you don’t have a WA area code on your phone number either, I bet.</p>
<p>I hate robocalls. I think they should be banned. They are the spam of telemarketing.</p>
<p>Welcome to WA! JK. Just imagine what we have to deal with here. I hate, hate, hate robocalls.</p>
<p>It is possible that someone made a typo in the area code while entering a new number in their database of future robocall victims.</p>
<p>There was a $50,000 FTC challenge for an app to stop robocalls and this one won: [Stop</a> robocalls with Nomorobo](<a href=“Stop robocalls and spam texts with Nomorobo”>http://www.nomorobo.com/)</p>
<p>You’re welcome!</p>
<p>Nomorobo, as far as I can tell, is spam dealing with spam. When you enter your land and cell carriers AND your email address, you get a message that your carriers are not supported by their system. Really? Mine are Comcast and Verizon. They then post your carrier(s) phone numbers with instructions to call them directly. </p>
<p>The only thing you accomplish with this company is providing someone else with your email address.</p>
<p>My carrier is Verizon and it absolutely worked for me. The only issue is that it may have blocked an automated confirmation call from a doctor’s office. I’ve never received another e-mail from them, not sure if they sold my name to others.
<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/us/robo-calls-contest[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/us/robo-calls-contest</a></p>
<p>We don’t have a landline, so I don’t get them.
:)</p>
<p>I have received a couple on my cell phone. Even though it is illegal to call cell phones nothing stops them and the numbers on the id are fake so reporting them does no good.</p>
<p>Last week I got one of those calls from an out of the country call center and tied up the caller for about five minutes. I just started laughing in the middle of his schpeel (The old Microsoft calling to tell me I have a virus scam). They don’t like to be told their business is a scam. In the end the guy was so upset he was screaming at me. I just kept laughing.</p>
<p>It was the most fun I’ve had with a telemarketer in a long time.</p>
<p>I like to ask them if their mother knows they are working for a criminal enterprise.</p>
<p>I get WA calls too. HATE it–never answered so I don’t know what it is. Tell me. Hope it’s not a long lost relative–but they wouldn’t call me on cell.</p>
<p>FL telemarketers are also running rampant!</p>
<p>I keep our landline (it was very handy this weekend when Comcast was out for 2 days after the storm and the cell towers were a mess), and I never get them on the landline!!! However, I got a ton of robocalls on my cell phone number! Even a call from a candidate in a highly contested local race!</p>
<p>Mostly I don’t answer the phone, but sometimes I give them the radio to listen to. Most of our calls are from do good or political organizations that for some reason my dh gave phone numbers to. Though we also get our fair share of carpet cleaners, chimney sweeps and the ubiquitous Rachel at card services.</p>
<p>I get them all the time on my cell phone.</p>
<p>I pushed the one button after a robo call and started swearing at a person. They hung up fast. They stopped calling. I had already pushed the 9 button that they said would take me off their calling list and that didn’t work so after a few more calls I lost my temper. My H went back and looked at caller ID and found that they were using 3 different phones numbers to call us about the same product!</p>
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<p>Noticed online that a classmate who spent some time in prison now runs a call center.</p>
<p>We cut our landline which has cut the annoying calls dramatically. Once in a blue moon one of us will get a robocall on our cel. I figure it’s only a matter of time before those numbers get out, especially mine which is now used as a primary number on all accounts, online orders, etc. On online sites that require a phone # that I really think is unnecessary I have been known to mistype one or two of the digits. Whoops! :o I try to be very, very careful about who I give it to. Once it’s out, there’s no closing the barn door.</p>
<p>We love messing with telemarketers, especially the ones whose names actually show up on caller id. My husband always answers with the name of their organization, which gets them really confused. He’ll sometimes tell them he’s the CEO and that they really need to be re-trained if they don’t know how to get an outside line.</p>
<p>We also shriek, make animal noises, tell them they’ve called a murder scene and ask them if they would mind answering a few questions about the victim, or pretend to be recruiting for a cult and thank them for calling.</p>
<p>Most of the time, when it’s obviously a robocall, we just hang up.</p>