Telemarketers are annoying (How to stop them??)

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by omasou

https://www.donotcall.gov

Good advice but no one follows the rules any more.
From National Do not call registry.
"Thank you for registering your phone number with the National Do Not Call Registry. You successfully registered your phone number ending in **** on November 24, 2003. Most telemarketers will be required to stop calling you 31 days from your registration date."

Here is something that does work. Paid Email. If it's free you are the product. I have been using startmail.com for a couple years. Best $40.00 a year I ever spent. Super secure and massive spam elimination.

[M-technik-3]

My neighbor she has a whistle that she blows into just for all the spam callers. Her Husband does it too, they find so amusing.

The Car warranty calls and mortgage calls have since stopped.

[starlights]

Depending on the provider, iPhones have the ability to not ring when unknown or spam numbers call. Just goes to missed calls. Sometimes they leave a voice mail but TMobile has voice transcription feature for VMs that one can read so not too bad -glance and delete.

In the past spam calls were a source of entertainment when driving back from work - would waste a lot of their time acting dumb but not giving out real info. Don't have to drive to work anymore so that's the past now.

[omasou]

Originally Posted by starlights

Depending on the provider, iPhones have the ability to not ring when unknown or spam numbers call. Just goes to missed calls. Sometimes they leave a voice mail but TMobile has voice transcription feature for VMs that one can read so not too bad -glance and delete.

In the past spam calls were a source of entertainment when driving back from work - would waste a lot of their time acting dumb but not giving out real info. Don't have to drive to work anymore so that's the past now.

Your talking about this. The problem I had w/this feature is that my dentist, doctor and others would automatically go to voicemail w/o giving me a chance to choose.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/111106

[omasou]

May also be interested in these…

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipho.../17.0/ios/17.0

https://support.apple.com/guide/ipho.../17.0/ios/17.0

[starlights]

If known, you add your dentist's number to your contacts and they won't go to missed. If you recently called their number then too it won't get silenced and will ring. If I am expecting someone to contact me who is not on my contact list then sometimes I will temporarily turn the feature off to let the calls through.

[floridaorange]

there are apps that filter them so your phone doesn’t ring and the number says spam call, never had an issue since

[UncleWede]

What about the random text that just says "Hey "

Delete and report for me.