Telemarketers and the Do-Not-Call list (1 Viewer)

[Fat Nick]

So I feel like over the last few years, telemarketing and phone scams have gotten out of control. I remember when the Do-Not-Call list first came out, everyone felt like it was going to finally lead to peaceful dinners and no more telemarketers. If it worked, it worked for a short time.

My home phone and cell phone are both on the Do-Not-Call list. I get an average of 3-4 telemarketer calls per day on my home phone, and one every few days on my cell. I used to be pretty diligent about following FTC recommended procedure of asking for them to put you on their company-maintained "Do not call" list, until I realized that most of the places calling me didn't really follow the law anyway. I started filing complaints on the FTC website, but that never helped because I don't think many of these places were even "businesses" that cared about fines or having to close up shop anyway.

Lately, I've just taken to messing with them when I have the time. My favorite are the "Technical Support" scammers who call and try and get access to your computer. They answer several basic questions, but start to get really mad when you ask more questions than they do. The latest guy had a heavy Asian accent, but said he was "Ted Johnson from Seattle." I asked him how to spell his last name, and he kept just repeating it.

Has anybody found a way to be free of these calls? Getting rid of home phone service isn't an option b/c the wife and I both work remotely a decent bit and we have horrible cell signal at home.

 

[Judge Smails]

I was going to get rid of my home phone line to reduce these robo calls, but now I get them on my cell phone now as well. We tell companies daily to take us off the list, have signed everything we know to sign - no help. Sucks.

 

[Fat Nick]

I was going to get rid of my home phone line to reduce these robo calls, but now I get them on my cell phone now as well. We tell companies daily to take us off the list, have signed everything we know to sign - no help. Sucks.

Yup...I didn't used to get them on my cell. I know that was flat out illegal at one point as it's considered a toll call since you used to pay for minutes (some still do). Now I get them everywhere.

The last scammer knew who had the phone number before we did, asked for her, and when we said she's not at that address, he said, "Ok, I know who this is. This is [Fat Nick.], right?" Then I got really pissed off.

I feel like the phone companies need to play a more active role in these kinds of things and block numbers sooner if there is suspicious activity.

 

[Ron Swanson]

Just like the US Mail is only good for bulk mail now, voice communications are only good for telemarketers. If you must have one I'd consider VOIP via Google voice where you can use the system to screen calls. They even have automatic spam filtering now.

 

[Copeman]

I don't answer unless I recognize the number or person. if it's an area code I don't know I don't answer. Doesn't bug me at all.

 

[Fat Nick]

I don't answer unless I recognize the number or person. if it's an area code I don't know I don't answer. Doesn't bug me at all.

We do the same thing mostly...We don't answer about 90% of the calls, and our caller ID reads out the caller. The only exception is when the same number calls over and over for several days, we'll answer just to tell them to stop calling. It's hard sometimes though b/c we have a 15-month old, and when the phone wakes him up, I want to murder people.

 

[Copeman]

I don't answer unless I recognize the number or person. if it's an area code I don't know I don't answer. Doesn't bug me at all.

We do the same thing mostly...We don't answer about 90% of the calls, and our caller ID reads out the caller. The only exception is when the same number calls over and over for several days, we'll answer just to tell them to stop calling. It's hard sometimes though b/c we have a 15-month old, and when the phone wakes him up, I want to murder people.

For cell phones, I know Verizon has a tool on their website that let you block certain numbers. Not sure about other carriers. Verizon used to let you block like 15 numbers. Now it's only 5. :(

 

[Fat Nick]

I don't answer unless I recognize the number or person. if it's an area code I don't know I don't answer. Doesn't bug me at all.

We do the same thing mostly...We don't answer about 90% of the calls, and our caller ID reads out the caller. The only exception is when the same number calls over and over for several days, we'll answer just to tell them to stop calling. It's hard sometimes though b/c we have a 15-month old, and when the phone wakes him up, I want to murder people.

For cell phones, I know Verizon has a tool on their website that let you block certain numbers. Not sure about other carriers. Verizon used to let you block like 15 numbers. Now it's only 5. :(

iPhones have a "block this caller" feature. No clue how many numbers you can put in there, but I add them every time someone calls...the thing is, the same "type" of caller will call me on different numbers every time.

I think that's what has changed in my eyes...the telemarketers are running numbers that they change frequently, and/or aren't even real numbers. I got a call from one this AM that came through as 000-000-0000.

 

[[icon]]

"That sounds fantastic, tell me more"
(Place phone face down on couch/table & continue doing what you're doing).

Eventually they realize they've wasted the last 30sec...1 min...3 mins....5 mins... rambling on with their sales pitch, then hang up.

 

[Hastur]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

2.) Stop giving out your phone number. To anybody(facebook, google, yahoo, etc.)!

3.) Profit.

 

[psychobillies]

If I'm in a hurry, I ask them if they mind if I masturbate while they talk. Usually ends the call quickly. If I have time, I slow play it. Start with the heavy breathing. maybe put the phone up to my zipper, etc.

 

[Mr. Ected]

I think our number used to be a number for a business. We get lots of calls for "can I speak with the manager?" or more obnoxiously, fax calls. The problem is I've had the number for 5+ years and I'm still hearing calls about it.

My question is, I kinda understand how not-for-profit organizations can slide by on the solicitor "Do Not Call List," but I don't understand how the calls by those organizations using a for-profit call center don't. The first is for sheriff's dept calling me about a local fundraiser. The second is a business calling me for profits.

 

[Snoopy]

I don't answer unless I recognize the number or person. if it's an area code I don't know I don't answer. Doesn't bug me at all.

We do the same thing mostly...We don't answer about 90% of the calls, and our caller ID reads out the caller. The only exception is when the same number calls over and over for several days, we'll answer just to tell them to stop calling. It's hard sometimes though b/c we have a 15-month old, and when the phone wakes him up, I want to murder people.

For cell phones, I know Verizon has a tool on their website that let you block certain numbers. Not sure about other carriers. Verizon used to let you block like 15 numbers. Now it's only 5. :(

iPhones have a "block this caller" feature. No clue how many numbers you can put in there, but I add them every time someone calls...the thing is, the same "type" of caller will call me on different numbers every time.

I think that's what has changed in my eyes...the telemarketers are running numbers that they change frequently, and/or aren't even real numbers. I got a call from one this AM that came through as 000-000-0000.

That is a common problem now. They commonly have a bank of phone numbers to call from and will call you from a different number each time.

Or more underhandedly they will spoof random numbers that will be displayed on Caller ID, even if it is in a form no legitimate phone number is in (usually the prefix starting with 0 or 1), calls from those are most likely a scam.

For Verizon, I think they are getting paid off by telemarketing firms to severely limit the number of blocked numbers allowed. I have even seen instances where they won't block certain numbers.

 

[Chadstroma]

I ignore mostly.

If they keep calling and/or are jerks. I will faint interest but then tell them to hold on and put the phone down and do other stuff. Periodically coming back to say "I am sorry, almost done" if they are still on or hang up if they drop the call. For someone reason this seems to make it that they don't call back.

 

[Chadstroma]

I ignore mostly.

If they keep calling and/or are jerks. I will faint interest but then tell them to hold on and put the phone down and do other stuff. Periodically coming back to say "I am sorry, almost done" if they are still on or hang up if they drop the call. For someone reason this seems to make it that they don't call back.

If it is important or a real call- they will leave a voicemail and I can call them back. Otherwise, they never leave voicemails.

 

[Craig_MiamiFL]

Had a salesman from local car dealership call me at 830pm on a Friday night to tell me about their labor day sale. Best part is he was stunned I didn't want to talk to him at 830 ona Friday night. Went in there the next day and wound up getting free oil changes for life.

I usually get half dozen-dozen telemarketer calls/day on home phone

 

[D-Day]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

 

[El Floppo]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

within days of getting our new phone number on the DNC list, we were getting telemarketing calls.

 

[johnnycakes]

Our home landline is set to "do not disturb" at Verizon so we don't get ANY incoming calls on that landline. It is used for outgoing calls only. So far no telemarketers have my cell number.

 

[squidrope]

So I feel like over the last few years, telemarketing and phone scams have gotten out of control. I remember when the Do-Not-Call list first came out, everyone felt like it was going to finally lead to peaceful dinners and no more telemarketers. If it worked, it worked for a short time.

My home phone and cell phone are both on the Do-Not-Call list. I get an average of 3-4 telemarketer calls per day on my home phone, and one every few days on my cell. I used to be pretty diligent about following FTC recommended procedure of asking for them to put you on their company-maintained "Do not call" list, until I realized that most of the places calling me didn't really follow the law anyway. I started filing complaints on the FTC website, but that never helped because I don't think many of these places were even "businesses" that cared about fines or having to close up shop anyway.

Lately, I've just taken to messing with them when I have the time. My favorite are the "Technical Support" scammers who call and try and get access to your computer. They answer several basic questions, but start to get really mad when you ask more questions than they do. The latest guy had a heavy Asian accent, but said he was "Ted Johnson from Seattle." I asked him how to spell his last name, and he kept just repeating it.

Has anybody found a way to be free of these calls? Getting rid of home phone service isn't an option b/c the wife and I both work remotely a decent bit and we have horrible cell signal at home.

I've been screwing with the "microsoft" guys for a few years. I just got and it was a "microsoft" guy. The guy was trying to screw with me. I must've made an impression to have them bother to call me to mess with me. Wooo Hooo! I consider that a victory against those SOB's.

 

[Hastur]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

within days of getting our new phone number on the DNC list, we were getting telemarketing calls.

Rule #2 is pretty important. Do not give the phone number to anyone or any website.

Kidding aside, I'm pretty surprised you started getting calls that fast. We've had a land line for 3 years now, and we have yet to get a telemarketer call.

 

[ChiefD]

If I get one from the same person, I will ask them for their name and company name and phone number. I then tell them if they call me again I'm reporting their company to our states attorney generals office. I rarely get calls anymore.

 

[Mister CIA]

I get about two or three a month, usually somebody wanting to sell me a home security system. I'm tempted to go down to the Verizon Store and tell them I'm going to shop for cheaper altrenatives if they can't muster enough technology to do something about it. Of course knowing Verizon they will want to upsell me on a $2.99 monthly fee to block known telemarketers.

 

[jhib]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

 

[shuke]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

How does it know if the robocalls are something legit, like from the school?

 

[jhib]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

How does it know if the robocalls are something legit, like from the school?

I guess the good ones are just not on their list. If any legit numbers are blocked (and you realize it somehow), you can report that number as well to get it off the list.

How Does Nomorobo Know Which Calls To Block?

Stephan Amenta 08/11/2015

Nomorobo utilizes a MASSIVE database of known, illegal robocallers, that we've compiled with the help of the FTC, user reports, and our own honey traps.

If a call gets a match in our database, we grab the call. If there's no match, we let the call go through.

 

[PlasmaDogPlasma]

This is why I stick with carrier pigeons.

 

[phandango]

We remodeled a couple years ago and ever since then we started getting calls saying, "We have a contractor in your neighborhood who can stop by for a quote!" Like someone previously said, the phone numbers are almost always spoofed, so whatever shows up on the caller ID isn't the real number. We were getting probably a dozen calls a week. Finally, I got one of these:

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U1PPWDO?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

You can set it to play a greeting when an unknown number calls you ("This number is protected by Sentry!"), but I find that annoying, so I turn it off. If I get a call from an unknown number, I'll google the number and make sure it's from a telemarketer/scammer (there's a site called 800notes.com that logs these phone numbers) and if it is, I hit the "reject" button on the call blocker and calls from that number will never ring again. But, obviously, this is only for home phones or landlines. We still get calls, but they have been cut way down.

 

[Fat Nick]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

within days of getting our new phone number on the DNC list, we were getting telemarketing calls.

Our "new" number when we got it a few years back was clearly a recycled number (as most are) from Joanne Malba. Joanne must've been a huge sucker because about 1/2 of the calls we get now are STILL for Joanne f-ing Malba. She hasn't had the number for at least 5 years, and we still get calls...

She put it on the DNC list way back in 2005...I reconfirmed it when we first got it, and again last week...

 

[Fat Nick]

If I get one from the same person, I will ask them for their name and company name and phone number. I then tell them if they call me again I'm reporting their company to our states attorney generals office. I rarely get calls anymore.

That works with legitimate companies. I agree...but the scammers obviously won't tell you or give you bogus info.

I guess what's getting to me is that no matter how many companies you tell to stop calling you, and how many scammers you shut down, they just keep coming. It's like a zombie attack.

 

[Fat Nick]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

I'm on their website now. This is exactly what I was hoping to get out of this thread...Something that seems to work.

Question though - My dumb-### in-laws have their number unlisted. It comes up on caller ID as Private. Will it kill those calls?

 

[B-Deep]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

I'm on their website now. This is exactly what I was hoping to get out of this thread...Something that seems to work.

Question though - My dumb-### in-laws have their number unlisted. It comes up on caller ID as Private. Will it kill those calls?

really, does it matter if it does?

lol

 

[pricklypete]

Love screwing with them.

My favorite was probably the time a woman called trying to sell a new vacuum/carpet cleaner sort of thing and wanted to come by the house to do a demonstration.

I got really excited and told her this would be perfect timing. I then asked if the cleaner would get blood and semen out of the carpets. Click.

About 10 minutes later my son got really upset and started crying a little. He "confessed" that it was him that got the "blood and seaman" on the carpet.

I didn't know what the hell was going on. After we got him settled down he explained he was playing with his army action figures. One of them is like a navy seal type guy. I guess when he was playing he had another guy kill the 'seaman' and squirted a ketchup packet on him to look like blood.

Maybe this should be in the coincidence thread.

 

[The Commish]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

within days of getting our new phone number on the DNC list, we were getting telemarketing calls.

A lot of the time, your "new number" is someone else's old number.

 

[The Commish]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

within days of getting our new phone number on the DNC list, we were getting telemarketing calls.

Our "new" number when we got it a few years back was clearly a recycled number (as most are) from Joanne Malba. Joanne must've been a huge sucker because about 1/2 of the calls we get now are STILL for Joanne f-ing Malba. She hasn't had the number for at least 5 years, and we still get calls...

She put it on the DNC list way back in 2005...I reconfirmed it when we first got it, and again last week...

The chick that had my cell phone number must have been REALLY bad with money. She has all kinds of debtors after her. The IRS has even called me.

 

[Fat Nick]

1.) Change your number, and immediately put it on the Do Not Call list.

within days of getting our new phone number on the DNC list, we were getting telemarketing calls.

Our "new" number when we got it a few years back was clearly a recycled number (as most are) from Joanne Malba. Joanne must've been a huge sucker because about 1/2 of the calls we get now are STILL for Joanne f-ing Malba. She hasn't had the number for at least 5 years, and we still get calls...

She put it on the DNC list way back in 2005...I reconfirmed it when we first got it, and again last week...

The chick that had my cell phone number must have been REALLY bad with money. She has all kinds of debtors after her. The IRS has even called me.

For us, that was the people that we bought our house from. They were probably a few months from foreclosure. The first week we moved in we had 3 bill collector notices taped to our front door. We had to tape a sign on the door and a sign on the mailbox that said they no longer lived there to make them stop. They refused to forward their mail too. I eventually found their new address and just wrote it on the signs I had up.

 

[El Floppo]

Love screwing with them.

My favorite was probably the time a woman called trying to sell a new vacuum/carpet cleaner sort of thing and wanted to come by the house to do a demonstration.

I got really excited and told her this would be perfect timing. I then asked if the cleaner would get blood and semen out of the carpets. Click.

About 10 minutes later my son got really upset and started crying a little. He "confessed" that it was him that got the "blood and seaman" on the carpet.

I didn't know what the hell was going on. After we got him settled down he explained he was playing with his army action figures. One of them is like a navy seal type guy. I guess when he was playing he had another guy kill the 'seaman' and squirted a ketchup packet on him to look like blood.

Maybe this should be in the coincidence thread.

 

[Mrs. Rannous]

Love screwing with them.

My favorite was probably the time a woman called trying to sell a new vacuum/carpet cleaner sort of thing and wanted to come by the house to do a demonstration.

I got really excited and told her this would be perfect timing. I then asked if the cleaner would get blood and semen out of the carpets. Click.

About 10 minutes later my son got really upset and started crying a little. He "confessed" that it was him that got the "blood and seaman" on the carpet.

I didn't know what the hell was going on. After we got him settled down he explained he was playing with his army action figures. One of them is like a navy seal type guy. I guess when he was playing he had another guy kill the 'seaman' and squirted a ketchup packet on him to look like blood.

Maybe this should be in the coincidence thread.

It really should be in the funny things your kid has said thread. That is priceless.

 

[jhib]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

I'm on their website now. This is exactly what I was hoping to get out of this thread...Something that seems to work.

Question though - My dumb-### in-laws have their number unlisted. It comes up on caller ID as Private. Will it kill those calls?

It shouldn't. My wife's calls from the office come through, showing up as "Unknown Name, Private Number." I wonder if they are still able to tell the number when caller ID can't, because I'd swear we used to get a whole bunch more unknown name/number calls that were unwanted robocalls and we don't anymore.

So you could probably still report in-laws number to get it blocked, and you'd save everyone else who uses the service from getting their calls as well.

Really, this thing is like magic.

 

[shuke]

Love screwing with them.

My favorite was probably the time a woman called trying to sell a new vacuum/carpet cleaner sort of thing and wanted to come by the house to do a demonstration.

I got really excited and told her this would be perfect timing. I then asked if the cleaner would get blood and semen out of the carpets. Click.

About 10 minutes later my son got really upset and started crying a little. He "confessed" that it was him that got the "blood and seaman" on the carpet.

I didn't know what the hell was going on. After we got him settled down he explained he was playing with his army action figures. One of them is like a navy seal type guy. I guess when he was playing he had another guy kill the 'seaman' and squirted a ketchup packet on him to look like blood.

Maybe this should be in the coincidence thread.

 

[Fat Nick]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

I highly recommend this for your home phone, Fat Nick.

I signed up our home phone over a year ago, and it has cut out at least 95% of the telemarketing calls. Your phone rings once, and if it's a robocall, it cuts out after that first ring. I don't even bother looking at the caller id before the 2nd ring.

I was home most of the day today, and it happened 4 times. It's so satisfying when it does that compared to answering the phone or waiting it out and ending up with some kind of half message on your voicemail/answering machine.

It was easy to set up (at least with Time Warner) and they do a good job of letting legit calls through (we get all the robocalls from the kids' schools). You can also report the robocalls that you don't want if they get through the system.

I'm on their website now. This is exactly what I was hoping to get out of this thread...Something that seems to work.

Question though - My dumb-### in-laws have their number unlisted. It comes up on caller ID as Private. Will it kill those calls?

It shouldn't. My wife's calls from the office come through, showing up as "Unknown Name, Private Number." I wonder if they are still able to tell the number when caller ID can't, because I'd swear we used to get a whole bunch more unknown name/number calls that were unwanted robocalls and we don't anymore.

So you could probably still report in-laws number to get it blocked, and you'd save everyone else who uses the service from getting their calls as well.

Really, this thing is like magic.

Thanks. Signing up as soon as my number port over to Comcast goes through (today hopefully, we just switched to Cable internet from DSL). It's free, so there's not really anything to lose.

 

[El Floppo]

nomorobo looks like it'll work for us too. tbh, the only person on the planet that even knows our land-line phone number (including my wife and me) is my MIL. I'm ok with that whole thing getting shut down.

 

[Fat Nick]

nomorobo looks like it'll work for us too. tbh, the only person on the planet that even knows our land-line phone number (including my wife and me) is my MIL. I'm ok with that whole thing getting shut down.

Pretty much the same here. When it rings, I don't budge, because it's either somebody I don't want to talk to (telemarketers) or somebody I don't want to talk to (in-laws).

I just get tired of it ringing, and with our phone, if you Mute the ringing, it only mutes the handset you're holding, not all the others around the house. Now I just need Comcast to finish my number port...Right now my outgoing calls work fine and show up with my desired number, but incoming calls don't ring through Comast, they still go to the old line.

 

[El Floppo]

nomorobo looks like it'll work for us too. tbh, the only person on the planet that even knows our land-line phone number (including my wife and me) is my MIL. I'm ok with that whole thing getting shut down.

Pretty much the same here. When it rings, I don't budge, because it's either somebody I don't want to talk to (telemarketers) or somebody I don't want to talk to (in-laws).

I just get tired of it ringing, and with our phone, if you Mute the ringing, it only mutes the handset you're holding, not all the others around the house. Now I just need Comcast to finish my number port...Right now my outgoing calls work fine and show up with my desired number, but incoming calls don't ring through Comast, they still go to the old line.

excatly.

I call ours the mommy hot-line, and definitely don't make a move. but worse, its tied into TWC, so we get a visual message on our TV when it rings.

 

[Fat Nick]

Nomorobo.com. Phone rings once, then off to neverland.

1 month update...I signed up for nomorobo once Comcast completed my number port. FANTASTIC service. My wife is still dumbfounded that it's free and works so well. Highly recommend. The only way it could be better is if it didn't ring at all.

 

[BowieMercs]

I don't answer unless I recognize the number or person. if it's an area code I don't know I don't answer. Doesn't bug me at all.

If its a number that is not in my contacts, I don't answer. If its important, they will leave a message. Spam callers get added to auto reject list so my phone doesn't even ring.