Funny thing is that half of my annoying calls are from persistent Red Cross with 56877 differnet number.
definition of landline:
The thing you use to call your cellphone when you can’t find it.
Yes. All with one message about lowering my electricity bill. I keep blocking the number, but they seem to be calling from hundreds of numbers. I get about ten calls a day between my home phone and cell phone. Luckily they go straight to voicemail on my cell phone so they are not too disruptive.
You should be thankful you don’t live in a hotly contested political congressional district. There were easily 10 calls a day, probably more, every day, for weeks.
Ugh, there are a lot of pyramid schemes out there having to do with cheap electricity. DH and I have now received propositions from two people about the “opportunity.” One of them was a relative of mine! I told her I could earn a lot more per hour by using my engineering degree than making cold calls.
we are starting to wonder why we have a landline; its always been because of the younger kids at home but they are getting older. Only calls on the landline are spam and dr reminders.
I don’t answer if I don’t recognize a number. If I’m at my computer, I’ll google it and if it’s spam, I block it.
I generally don’t answer my phone. It’s on silent most of the time. If I see it ringing, and recognize the caller, I answer it. The spam callers (almost) never leave a message. The one exception was the “IRS” that threatened me with an arrest warrant. LOL Actually, now that you mention it, we moved to NC from NJ 9 years ago, and our cellphones have a New Jersey area code. This year we have gotten an increase in spam calls coming from New Jersey!
I’ve noticed an increase in those annoying calls, too. They are now using pre-fixes that are the same as my cell number. I guess they think I’m more likely to answer if it looks like a local number. When I do answer, it’s usually “Heather” or “Elizabeth” who want me to know there is no problem with my card … blah, blah, blah. I know it’s a recording, but I feel better after yelling at the recording, hanging up, and immediately blocking the number. I think I’ll try that app mentioned earlier to prevent those calls.
Yup. We receive at least 7-10 scam calls a day on our land line. We also get them on our cell phones. Remember the days when you would run to the phone when it rang to be the first one to pick it up? Probably dating myself. ;)) I would get rid of the land line in a heart beat. Our cell service is so inconsistent we are forced to keep it.
If your cell signal is inconsistent does your phone have the feature to automatically use home wi-fi for calls? iPhone does, don’t know about Android. I use this feature and it works great! No need to pay for a land line.
We get the ‘oops have trouble with head set’; ‘you have been selected for XYZ free thingy’; ‘Your resort vacation is waiting for you to claim it’;
But the last one was really the best…"this is detective Mark Swanson.you failed to appear for grand jury selection…you need to clear your record. Get $2950 in green dot money pack cards and bring them to the station, we will clear your record and you will receive the funds in the form of a cashiers check once your cleared. You must do this NOW…you must remain tethered to me on a mobile device so I can instruct you as to exactly what you do when you get to Safeway/CVS/Walgreens to purchase the money cards’. H and I kept this guy going for over an hour - asking him to repeat and repeat and repeat the detailed instructions. He finally was losing his cool…we hung up.
Those of you with landlines that won’t support nomorobo- consider switching to VOIP, which is cheaper and does support it.
When Hurricane Sandy hit on Long Island, our landline still worked initially, including an old wall phone that had not been used by anyone in years and it was pretty startling to hear it ring.
I agree that the # of robocalls is increasing. With caller ID, never answer the phone as anyone with a valid reason will leave a voice mail.
Before DH retired from Senior Level Federal Service we had a secure phone/fax line in our house in case of national emergency. Literally the only calls we ever received was from people trying to refinance our mortgage, selling solar energy. If it was a person on the line, I would play along assuming that they know who/where they had called and described our house as not needing to refinance our mortgage as it was a very large white house with a very specific address.