Unwanted Phone Calls

[catchow]

Ive been getting so many unwanted phone calls these days, I want to have my phone removed, its that bad. Ive put my number on the do not call registry list a dozen times at least. I dont have any kind of blocking available on my phone service (charter communications) Ive called Charter, they tell me theres nothing they can do about it.

One in particular is from a Bank Card Services, every time they call its a different number. Its a prerecorded message telling me if Im interested in lowering my interest to call them back, or press 9 to no longer receive these phone calls. I have pressed 9 in the past, but then saw a news story that sometimes by pressing certain buttons, your ok'ing your number to be charged with something, sorry cant remember the whole story.

I even called one of the numbers back and soon as the person answered they asked me are you interested in lowering your interest, I was about to say no, but can you please remove me from your list, no sooner then I got no out, she hung up, well that ticked me off, I called back and it said that my number was blocked from calling ...WTH!??!?

I get more phone calls from these scam places then I do people I know I no longer answer the phone if its not from someone I know. But daily I get at least a dozen calls from these scumbags 

Anyone else?

[aggie49]

i get alot of them also mainly on my cell phone because my home phone is set to private and with the cell it eats up my minutes it is aggravating

[Kirenisa]

I usually get unwanted phone calls on our landline phone because of my own fault doing certain offers but again my bad cause I gave out my landline number.

[minioncookies]

What i usually do.. Is i try and find police officer soundboards that sound real.. I have found this one.. And i use it everytime.. it has cut down alot on my unwanted calls.. I hope it stops for you soon.

[dkanofsky]

Thanks to caller ID, anytime my wife and I get a garbage call we either hang up before answering or just let it ring.

[demaina]

Oh my, I was up all night working on cleaning and finally started to get tired around 7am and the phone rang like 5 times within that hour and none of them were numbers that I knew or cared about.  Of course, I was waiting for a number to call so I had to check every time but I was so ready just to disconnect the phone near me so it wouldn't ring right near my head every moment.

[patti4me]

We get a lot of unwanted calls too!  We have caller ID so we just let most of them ring; occassionally I will answer and tell them to put me on their do not call list.  That works for awhile but then they start again.  Very frustrating!!  March of Dimes is one that calls a lot even though I have told them to take me off their list.  I made the mistake of donating to them several years ago and they keep calling and calling.  Last time I just interrupted the guy and told him I had already told them to quit calling me.  He apoligized and said he would see that it stopped.  Just curious to see how long it lasts this time!  We've been on the Do Not Call list for years but sometimes I don't guess it matters.  Wish you luck with yours!

[kimberlymgiles]

If you are an internet addict like I am, then I'm sure that you get unwanted phone calls most of the day. Most companies sell your personal information to just about anyone who is willing to pay for it. These calls are very annoying. I generally pick up and hang up, considering the fact that they call during the busiest moment of my day.

[moon29]

i know that my husband has a ton of these such calls.  we dont give our number out to anyone so unless you are fortunate enough to be listed with your name in the call log then we just dont answer the phone let them waste there time and minutes calling.

[kleenex40]

I used to but i havnt had a  unwanted phone call in awhile

[southernhorizons]

For the past month or so, we've been getting multiple calls a day from foreign scammers who pretend we won something. They change their stories and their names, pretending to have American names like James Anderson, and they won't give up even though we have repeatedly told them we aren't interested. No, we just hang up without saying anything to them. But I came up with the idea of reading a sales pitch to them, about how they can make hundreds or thousands a day working from home. I figured a taste of their own medicine might stop their pestering! I haven't tried it yet, but we'll see if that works.
What I can't figure out, is how they got the home landline number. All the offers I do online I use my cell phone. Even most of the other stuff I do I use my cell phone number.

[mjoseph1]

i use a call blocking feature provided by my cellphone company, i love it

[kapeh12]

One thing I've learned regarding these scam calls is because they are scams, there is no "do not call list" for you to be removed.  By answering, you are letting the scammers know they have a live phone number, and they'll increase calls because they know you exist.  They probably also sell your number to other such operations which is why problems seem to get worse.

It's much like the scam emails you get that come with an "unsubscribe" link.  If you click the link, your email is then flooded with bogus spam because the scammers know they have a real email address.

Best to let the number ring - don't pick up, don't call back.  Some people report the numbers to the FCC.

I use Vonage, and fortunate for me, I found instructions on how I can route my calls through Google Voice, where GV will filter the call through their known scam list.  Once I did that, then number of scam calls I received dropped drastically.  Now when those guys call, they hear the "out of service" sound on my line, but legit numbers (or scam numbers not on their list) come through to my phone.  Those that make it through, I'll pick up if I know the number, and let it ring for those I don't.

[tuyetmai]

I get it all the time...  Hope this call go away.  There sometime get another person in the same place calling me few times a day.  Sometime they heard my voice and hang up   I hang up their call all the time, not to be rude, but I told them to not call me but they still did.

[bud1]

I have caller id and  if i don't know the number "please leave  your  number  at  the beep".