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Spam phone calls, how many?

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ForestGumpett

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Do you get a lot of spam phone calls and if so, about how many like a day or week?

I’m getting anywhere from 2-10 a day. We do plan on changing my phone number when we move and hope going to a town of about 300 this will help with the problem. I keep the phone turned off all the time because of it.

Not sure if that is a lot or is it not that many?
 
We got a burn phone 2 months ago for our stay in the states, we have received only three spam calls.
 
About what we get. If anyone we know calls there's a different ring. Otherwise, we ignore the phone. It is a good rule to never give out your primary phone to anyone who doesn't have a vital need to know. We give out a lot of fake numbers. Close friends, family, work, government, and the hospital get our cell phones. Nobody else. Wanna talk to me? Email or FB messenger.

VOIP lines are cheap. Use one of those for everyone else if you feel a need to. Then never answer it, only check the voice mail.

Even so, your number will get sold eventually. Or a robo caller that is just going down a list of assigned numbers will get a hit on you. It still keeps the number of spam calls down.
 
ForestGumpett said:
Do you get a lot of spam phone calls and if so, about how many like a day or week?

I’m getting anywhere from 2-10 a day. We do plan on changing my phone number when we move and hope going to a town of about 300 this will help with the problem. I keep the phone turned off all the time because of it.

Not sure if that is a lot or is it not that many?
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For a senior citizen, I'd say that's about "par for the course". (We're often deliberately targeted as the most vulnerable "mark".) Right now I average around two to six five days a week. I simply do not answer any call from someone I don't know or cannot readily identify. I just cut the connection after two rings, and they never call back. Most being criminal scammers- not simply spammers.

I still use "nomorobo" to stop most robocalls, but these days many scammers seem to get around it.
 
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Couldn't figure out how to get the VOIP phone working when I moved, although I've done it successfully before. Landlines are very pricey now cos the telcos don't want them, mainly used by people with medical conditions. So I only have a 'burn' phone, easily ignored, I rarely have it near me, so it's mostly text ads from stores I've made a purchase from and you just text 'STOP' for it to end.

There's a gubbmint 'Do Not Call' register in this country (that's how bad it got) which you have to opt into and I think it expires every 7 years. When I had a landline at my last place I only ever got the crim/scam callers who ignore the DO NOT CALL register.
 
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Does anyone else use a Faraday bag for their phone or computer/ipad? I’ve started keeping my phone in it when I’m not using it, which is most of the time since we don’t know a lot of people and you can always return a call if they leave a message.

The bags are nice, I got them off ebay and am sure amazon sells it too. it more/less makes you invisible as far as tracking goes.
 
  1. Since we moved our cell service from AT&T (flip phone) to Visible (smart phone), cell/voice spam seems to have gone down.
  2. Text spam seems about the same, but it is routed to a junk-text mailbox.
  3. I use the following strategy for my landline (option 2) without picking up calls having unrecognized caller IDs. Call volumes ebb & flow, but it helps. (We previously used this method for #1 [above], but we have less options in our current cell greetings.)
Trick to Get Removed From Auto-Dialer Call Lists - Technipages

HERE is a link to the tone, itself.
 
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ForestGumpett said:
Does anyone else use a Faraday bag for their phone or computer/ipad? I’ve started keeping my phone in it when I’m not using it, which is most of the time since we don’t know a lot of people and you can always return a call if they leave a message.

The bags are nice, I got them off ebay and am sure amazon sells it too. it more/less makes you invisible as far as tracking goes.
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If they are functioning Faraday bags, no one will be able to reach your phone to leave you a message.* Real Faraday cages & bags obscure your phone from the network, as if you turned it off and took out the battery.
(I was a factory cell phone analyst when Motorola still made them. That is where I had my patent.)

*They will only be able to leave a voicemail as if your phone was turned off.
 
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I only have a few people I talk with via phone.
The phone announces who is calling if they are on my contacts list.
If not, it announces the phone number that is calling.

I only answer the phone to contacts.
After four rings on the land line the message comes on for the caller to hear: "This is an answering
machine, you know what to do." Beep...
If it is a legit call, they can leave a voice mail. If not, it seems to discourage robos and scammers.
I used to get an average of three per day. Now, most days I get none. Maybe one per week.

I also have two cell phones. They are seldom used. Only to text or stay in contact with my
house share person and a friend in assisted living.
All else on those are ignored.
 
Very, very rarely; if I do it's usually """The RCMP saying that the CRA has put out a warrant for my arrest, unless I pay $x amount of money""" from some badly spliced together automated message voices.
 
With my last phone company it went in spurts. I would go days without a phone call then it would ring seemingly all day long. With my new company the phone has been very quiet so far and I still have the same number. I can't begin to determine the reason for this just glad for the quiet.
 
Martha Ferris said:
I can't begin to determine the reason for this just glad for the quiet.
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In my case, it might be that AT&T Cellular was easier to hack than Visible...
Or it was just a bigger target.
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Not so much of late, but it has been awful. However, I tend to recognise the numbers and so, just let it ring.
 
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oh i'm in Australia, Judge, I think it's a little different, can't quite recall though. I no longer have a landline or VOIP.
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LOL....so Oz has something similar? Gotcha. Too bad though if it isn't indefinite. Yet our reality these days seems that even our federal no-call registry is toothless. Where few offenders are actually prosecuted and convicted.

Leaving the private sector to move at a snail's pace when it comes to the communications industry combating criminal scammers. At this point I'd settle for unlimited call blocking. But even that seems a stretch at the moment. :(
 
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Crossbreed said:
If they are functioning Faraday bags, no one will be able to reach your phone to leave you a message.* Real Faraday cages & bags obscure your phone from the network, as if you turned it off and took out the battery.
(I was a factory cell phone analyst when Motorola still made them. That is where I had my patent.)

*They will only be able to leave a voicemail as if your phone was turned off.
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Yes, I cut mine off and then put it in the bag. As you probably know, it will wear the battery out if you don’t turn them off in the bag. Only time I ever need it is when my husband goes to the grocery or lumber store other than that I never use it (the phone) and find it a nuisance. *People can leave a message and it will get to my phone when I take it out and turn it back on. I’ve never missed a message.
 
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