Annoying phone calls day & night
 

Any suggestions? All day and night our phone is constantly ringing with tele marketing calls. I am out of my mind with this. Keeping track of numbers now but where do I report this? We are on the do not call list but apparently it's not working. They even call and leave long messages tieing up your phone line. My God, if you don't feel well and want to take a nap the phone won't allow you. This needs to be outlawed. What an invasion of privacy. Fed up

The same thing is happening to us and we are in Michigan! I don't answer the numbers I don't know. But now, they are using local numbers just to lear you in! So frustrating!

Exactly. But if you don't feel well , you cannot even take a nap. It goes on and on. Need to know how to stop this? We need Laws passed to stop this. How dare them intrude in our homes all day and night. Who to call to report??

We removed the house phone from service when moved to TV. Problem solved. Now the way we tackled the cell phone nutjobs who call all day was we were lucky enough to see a post on this forum and someone suggested installing Mr Number from the Play Store on our Android phones. It worked great for a month or so, the phone would ring once and then Mr. Number would snag the call it was great but it has been letting calls leak through lately. The Do Not Call Registry is a waste of time. Good Luck.

My wife still insists we have a land line....so of course we still do....When this occurs, we press the quiet button. This allows me to put the phone in quiet mode from anywhere between 1 and 12 hours. A great feature you probably have on your phone but perhaps have not yet used. My favorite feature.

Of course, my cell phone is my business phone.....that NEVER gets turned off.....lol.

Frank

I do not want to get rid of landline as I prefer using that to talk on phone and should not have too. Don't believe we have a silent feature but if u put on silent could then miss very important calls. Anyone else having this problem and found a solution?

Check out nomorerobo.

Stop robocalls and telemarketers with Nomorobo

If you don't have, you should have, caller ID and voice mail. We also have a landline and if we don't recognize the number we don't answer. If they really want to talk to us or it's an important call (kids or grandkids or a tee time) they will leave a message and we will call back. The caller ID also shows up on the TV. Your phone should also have a switch to turn off your ringer so if you need a nap turn it off. We do that occasionaly since the number shows up on the TV. I have my phone through Brighthouse/Spectrum and they have call block which allows me to block calls by number. nomorerobo I believe, is an app for mobile phones, not land lines.

Maybe get rid if your landline? I understand your frustation... haven't had a landline since 2000...

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nomorobo is for landlines and works extremely well. We installed it in conjunction with our Comcast provided service and one ring, bye bye.

It's just a bunch of very lazy SOB's that won't get a real job. That's how I treat them when I answer the phone too.

One more very satisfied user of nomorobo!

It is free for landlines. The set up takes less than 5 minutes.

When a robocall comes in, the phone rings one time and then disconnects.

Try it!

google reporting phone calls...you can report them to the FCC and also to the do not call link. We've had the annoying calls from one number who call and re-call several times in a day/evening...we screen ALL calls but I've reported these!

Unfortunately, with nomorobo you still get that one ring, so if you're trying to nap or not feeling well as the OP mentioned, you still get disturbed by that ring. I have nomorobo and it helps a lot, but we still tend to look at the phone to make sure.

Interestingly, we just got that scam IRS filing a lawsuit robo call that nomorobo didn't intercept.

We don't have caller ID's. However we do have an answering machine. When we receive a call we listen to our answering machine to see if anyone leaves a message. If no message then it's probably a robocall or a sales call. This works great. If a message is left we decide to either return the call or erase it. It's amazing to us that there are so many calls that don't leave a message.

John

The jerks are leaving voice mails now!!

i screamed at one guy last night as he with his thick accent was almost impossible to understand until I hear these words "want to check your computer. I let out a very loud do you think I just fell out of a tree. apparently he did because he has called me three more times since and so this AM I blocked his calls on y phone.

I answered in the first place because i was waiting for a call from COMCAST

Don't answer.
 

I haven't answered my landline in years. It takes messages and I review them at my convenience. This makes it easy to discard robocalls.

My message on the answering machine gives my cell phone number so if the call is by a real person, they can call me. But the robots are not set up for this.

In the past few weeks I have started to get nuisance calls on my cell phone. I can tell by the opening sentence whether or not it is something that interests me. If not, I hang up without even saying I am not interested.

I am no longer polite to people who intrude on my privacy.

To Clarify:

Nomorobo only works on internet based landlines. It will not work with old fashioned copper lines coming into the house.

I used to block every telemarketer on my cell but they call the next day with a new number. Blocking numbers are a waste of time.
The only satisfaction I get if I have the time, is stringing them along as long as possible to waste their time.

When I get a telemarketer call on my cell phone, the screen lights bright red and shows a spam alert. It directs me to swipe down if I don't want to answer it. I have seen an increase in these calls on my cell phone in the last month. We have nomorobo on the landline and it works perfectly.

Got six calls in 12 hours from Illinois. Fixing Microsoft software weaknesses. Do not call is a cruel joke. I answered first and last calls.

OK not sure I'm getting answers I need. I do Not want to give up landline because I am entitled to have a home phone as I prefer it. We are all entitled to our privacy too! Of course I have caller ID but that doesn't stop the phone from Ringing, usually 3x. Also if I want to rest or nap one ring would wake me up as I'm a light sleeper. I don't want one ring or 3 rings. I want peace in my own home. I also don't want to put my phone on silent because if napping and Emergency call comes in, I want to hear that. I just want peace and quiet in my home, not to be bothered day and night by this invasion of privacy. Is this too much to ask?? Fed up why can't our representatives stop this, outlaw it?

if you have a landline and a cellphone, turn off the ringer for the lifeline. For or if you have a cell phone, ask your cell phone provider for a west coast area code. I don't have one, but some people feel comfy with landline. I have never had someone call me, ever.

I can switch the number of rings down to two rings. If I should snooze, I close my bedroom door with the kitchen phone still able to get the calls. Isn't it a shame you need to do this in your own home?? I also have a line in the bathroom. If I'm "busy" I just look at the caller ID and don't have to hurry important business. Lol

Here is what may work in the long run. Call your US Congressman (Daniel Webster, Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson). Tell them this problem needs to be fixed. It can be fixed because the technology is already out there -- nomorobo works on cells and voips. Adapt it to landlines.

I also recommend nomorobo for your landline. I installed it a few months ago on my Comcast landline phone, and it has been working well for me.

Two simple rules would fix the problem. First, all phone providers should be required to modify their system so that all customer numbers show up on caller ID, with no way for the caller to block, conceal, or add fake calling numbers. Second, all customers should be able to permanently block future calls for free with a simple click on their phone. Why can't the Federal regulators implement these rules?

I just tried to sign up for nomorobo and was told that my landline is not available for the service do to the fact that it is CenturyLink. Shesh!

Just a thought . . . can you call CenturyLink and ask why nomorobo is not available?

I did call Century Link and was told "we're working on it", but that didn't give me any hope. the worst thing for telemarketers is to have their time wasted. There is a subscription service that does just that. You answer the call, wait for a person to speak, and then transfer the call to a special number the service supplies and hang up. The service then invokes a speaking robot program that "talks" to the telemarketer with things like yes, u-huh, would you repeat that, etc. It ****es them off and they will blacklist your number. My other suggestion would be to google your # to see what that shows. We found that our # was formerly a restaurant that went out of business in TV. We were getting a lots of calls to order take out and after that died down tons of calls from Google and business finance offers. We finally changed our number and it has been much, much better. Caller IDs are fake so the DoNotCall list is totally useless. There is no 100% solutions until the FCC makes it happen. Contact your congressman.

It is called lobbying.

Go on your computer to nomorobo and follow the directions. It works!! Click on your phone system then follow the directions. If you have trouble call your provider, they are very helpful. Many of us have done it on landlines. I understand there is a way to also do if for your cell phone altough I haven't tried it yet.

I agree with JoMar. nomorobo works great on land lines and it's free. I understand you can get the same action (one ring and bye, bye) for your cell but there is a charge. Don't know what that is. try'em you'll like'em

Yes...we have used Nomorobo at our prior home & now here in TV.... works great. If you have signed up for the FL do not call list you can file a
Complaint for the calls you received.

What's with all legislators.. Who hacked who. Seems they can find out who called to what when and where we can stop my stupid phone from ringing five times a day with telemarketers.I'm quite sure with today's technology something can be done to stop this going on. You can't leave it up to the phone companies to police themselves. I would like to see a law passed what each individual that has been called by an unsolicited organization has the ability to sue that organization or persons.. I know the answer it's not possible..Yes it is possible that the government would cooperate with the voters and make it possible.. I personally have written to my Congressman And my Sen. with regards to this matter and in either case got any response.

Does this app cost anything?

HULAHIPS, you're right "DO NOT CALL LIST" is a joke, they had ought to be fined or put out of business for false advertising. You know I checked on line about this very question you asked. & believe it or not some high up person from AMAZON told me when you get a phone call & you don't recognize the number, DON'T ANSWER". When you answer it's telling the electronic fake person on the other end or live person that the number they called is a real person. I get very few telemarketer calls because any more I just don't answer. if it's important they'll leave a voice mail. Hope this helps!

Even if you don't answer, the very fact that it is ringing is annoying and distracting.

Turn the ringer off?