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How to Stop Robo Spam Calls? (1 Viewer)

I'll probably jinx myself but I've had pretty much 0 on either of my cell phones in a long time
 
I get ~5-10 a day but it’s a company phone so I give my number out a lot.

I tend to just answer and have small talk. I ask where they’re at and how’s the weather? Some play along, a few yell obscenities and hang up.
 
soldoMy god did someone flip a switch, have had 10+ last two days.
Noticed that they do arrive in waves at times. 4 or 5 a day in a short time span. Other days just one or two.
I theorize that my personal contact information got sold to someone else when we get a lot of calls.
We also have a land line that we were required to have for our elevator. That line is never used or given out as a contact number. It’s never answered as well. That phone only rings about once every two weeks.
 
Not a mobile number. It's my land line work number that is posted / listed on hundreds of sites, search engines, and directories. Don't really want to get a new phone number.


One thing that has anecdotally worked in the past is putting the three-beep disconnect tone at the start of my answering machine message. That do-doo-DOO series of tones. You apparently don't need the rest of the "I'm sorry..." message, you can follow it with your own "Anarchy99 can't get to the phone right now, please leave a message at the beep" after the two second do-doo-DOO. The rumor is that auto-dialers and spam calling computers will disconnect and remove your number from their database upon hearing the tones, their computers don't listen to the voice part of the recording. Humans, though, might be initially confused for a few seconds but they'll hear your voice and continue with the call. Do it for a week or two maybe and switch back and see if calls are reduced.

Otherwise, yeah, some kind of spam filtering/forwarding might be necessary.
I did this a few months ago and 🤞 it somewhat worked. I'm now down to maybe a couple of calls a day to a few a week. That's from a regular high of 9-12 calls a day. It didn't happen overnight but based only on that change calls have definitely slowed down. I recorded the double do-doo-DOO and didn't leave a personal message. For me it was not painful as I only have a few personal contacts that needed to know that was a fake out, I don't use this phone for business.
 

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