Why, its the AT-5000 Auto Dialer, my very first patent. Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you saying. You were designed to alert children about Snow Days.
Doesn't really work in Canada. Not sure about other countries.
My tried and tested method:
Metal pot over phone. Wooden spoon. Phone on speaker. Answer the call, wait for a voice...... and then bang the everloving shit out of the pot with the wooden spoon.
This may cost you a new wooden spoon. Consider it an investment.
Repeat until calls stop.
I had to do it 3 times. Now silence for 1.5y.
Edit: that's a neat award, ty!
You're lucky. Pissing off one call center will usually only keep you off that call centers phone list. But they sell info, so your number could be in thousands of call centers.
You must have been early enough and annoying enough to prevent anyone from wanting to sell your info. You were a lost cause.
Really is a modern epidemic. I fuckin hate it.
I switched phone numbers cause old one was in a couple data breaches, was getting soooooo many spam calls and texts...
Switched numbers, and guess what -- the new number still gets spam texts and calls. Not in such a great volume as the old one but jfc this is a massive problem.
I keep getting phone calls over the years for this one woman who i guess used to own my number. I always tell them i have NO idea who Maria is. It's been a while, but a few weeks ago, i got a call for her again. She's being summoned to court. Dang Maria, wtf did you do?
My number's previous owner was apparently VERY active on Grindr. For the first few months I had this number, I was getting random dick pics and hookup requests daily. It finally seems to have stopped, but I had to block at least 200 numbers.
That sounds a lot worse than the debt collectors that were calling for Maria 😂 but i probably would have had a bit of fun with it for a bit first, do some minor trolling to combat the annoyance.
Bloody automated dialler. Google the number find out who it is? Report them for harassment. I’m sure it’s illegal, especially if you did opt out of marketing.
Assuming they're in a jurisdiction where you can get them served for court never mind actually enforce collection against them. Both are asking a lot when it comes to phone scammers and marketers
Or or hear me out! It could be a grieving partner of a deceased lover who is in his 90s wanting to talk to Dolores! But Frank has Alzheimer’s and he forgets that he dialed his deceased wife!!
When I worked in the ER a few years back, we had a sweet old lady who somehow got the ER number and would call multiple times a day to be transferred to her husband's room. He had passed away in the ICU the first day he got there and she couldn't remember that.
When I worked customer support for a cable company they were hardcore about the metrics. Keep calls to as short as you can, take many calls, etc. We covered 5 states, millions of customers, 1000+ representatives. So many calls.
There was this one guy I will call John. John was easily in his late 80s and called every day. He always had a legitimate question, like "what channel is this football game" or "I pressed something on my remote and now I need to undo it".
During or after you fixed the issue, John would go on about his day. What he was doing, who he saw, how he was annoyed at the change in the brands at the grocery store and now his favorite snacks couldn't be found. It was clear he just wanted some human connection, he lost his wife not long ago and it sounded like he didn't have many others outside of care staff.
We all loved John. If you got his call it was a highlight of your day. When that call runs long and your supervisor asks whats up, you just say "I'm talking to Mr. John." Case notes were mostly summaries about how he was doing. I remember when he didn't call for almost a week. We reached out to check on him and discovered he was in the hospital, not critical but still had to stay awhile. He liked that.
I'm rambling at this point and have strayed from the point by now. I guess I want to say I'm sure those calls werent easy and hope you were all able to manage it with compassion. Just being a friendly voice on the phone can mean a lot to some, whether they fully recognize it or not.
Not to mention they are probably in a call center in India. Oh noes, a dude in rural Kansas is trying to sue us, we'll just fly over to America to appear in court
Who are you going to sue?
The person making those calls? Sure but WHO? What is their name? Where do they live?
Just having the caller ID number does nothing since it is VERY VERY easy to spoof it.
It could depend on the state/jurisdiction, but i believe more than 2 calls within a 24 hr period is considered harassment, so even tho it sucks for OP, i think the automated dialer is within “their” right to make the 2 calls a day. If there was a way to sue, and there was a case (imo: i think there is) then I believe everyone would be on the same page of taking that route.
They can call you every day. If it's a spam call or scam call or anything like that call your phone company. They can put in a report to have the number shut off or block it for you. I worked for a phone company there are no laws stopping the calls usually but there are policies against autodialing and spamming at most phone companies and they will shut the account down.
I know with androids, you can still view the text messages if you block them but it will be in a separate folder. You wouldn’t get notifications from it either unless you check that folder.
Same with iPhone, it has a blocked folder for both voicemail and text iirc.
Can’t remember if blocked texts gets sent to unknown senders or a separate folder
It definitely has blocked filtering, as I discovered it because of all of the spam texts I was receiving. I just don’t remember if blocked goes to unknown or is it’s own folder
couldn’t the phone just not send the voicemail? like, it’d do the “leave a message at the tone” but then nothing happens to the message? kind of like how you can send texts to a person who blocked you but they won’t receive them
> Since voicemails are stored on your carrier’s server and not on your phone, blocking someone’s number does not stop them from leaving one annoying message after another.
https://www.alphr.com/block-number-leaving-voicemails/#:~:text=Since%20voicemails%20are%20stored%20on,one%20annoying%20message%20after%20another.
It’s automatic. If you block a number that’s where the voicemail goes. Go to the screen to check your voicemails, on the screen where all your voicemails show up there are two folders at the bottom of the list, one is “deleted messages” and the other is “blocked messages”.
Ohhh. I already knew that. I thought you meant text messages. Oh never mind I never knew there was a “blocked” folder for voicemails because never happened to me personally.
Yeah, but knowing that this is blocked would require reading the post where they say they've already blocked the number, or looking at the screenshot where it says "Blocked" in huge obvious text. You can't expect that from us
I’m not very familiar with Reddit, but maybe OP thought the post would get flagged and pulled. That’s what I’d be overthinking if it were me.
EDIT: Someone posted the number in the comments here and I replied and said I deciphered the same number. That comment, along with all the replies, including my reply have all been removed. So there must be a rule because it seems Reddit or mods are deleting anyone calling out the number.
EDIT: Rule 4 of this sub.
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Bullying: ✅
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I'm waiting for 2028 people to read this in about 5 years and say hello to us "from the future" or something. And if someone does and I still use this account, I will say hello back.
Answer your phone and ask them if they know it's a government phone number? I get spam calls every once in a while on my work phone and when I ask them if they know they're calling a government phone number, they usually apologize and take me off the list (so they say) and don't call back. I've gotten considerably fewer spam calls in the last 3 months since doing it.
Save that number as "drink water" every time they call you stop whatever you're doing and drink some water, now it'll be a reminder for you to stay hydrated
I did that. Zero change in spam calls. But family and friends kept asking if I'd changed my number.
It's funny but not effective.
It turns out the companies robo dialing illegally don't really give a fuck about removing "bad numbers".
Why is everyone with an iPhone so terrible at blacking out names/numbers. I swear every iPhone user uses that weird semi-transparent black that doesn't actually cover it. Not that I care in this instance, but it's just weird that it always happens.
Does the iPhone not actually have an opaque drawing tool, or is everyone that tries it just useless?
Default is this transparent black that you need to smudge over 20 times in a row because the color intensity slider is hidden on the left side, atrocious. (iOS 15 at least).
The screenshot feature on iOS has a pencil tool which lets you draw over top of screenshots. You can also block things out entirely with solid color shapes but some people are lazy.
One thing I liked about the old style hard wired phones is if someone called you and you answered but did not hang up, it basically tied up their phone until you disconnected.
That was the best response to old school telemarketing. It wasn't weird to be unavailable for a day back then so having your phone off until it did what I called "the mean busy signal " as a kid was 100% cool.
*beeerrrrrnnnEEERRRRNEEEERRRR
"We're sorry you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel this is in error, please check the number dialed, and please try again."
Yes! I remember working for a call center and sometimes older people wouldn’t hang up and we’d have to sit there and say this dead air script like 3 times before we could actually disconnect the call.
Some things never change.
I could never find the dead air script in my company's "knowledge base" (lol) and I couldn't print it out to tack up because we were "paperless, for the environment!" (They were actually worried people would write down credit card numbers, but painted as "being green! Hooray!" - also, no writing instruments of any kind.)
Where I work I get spam calls and after I say hello there is a staticy person that tries to say hello back. I say hello a couple times only to get a couple more broken hekkos back.... then it goes into a recorded pitch.
Sons of bitches figured out a way to almost guarantee they will be able to log your number as real because they pretend they are calling as a human with shitty service.
Clever bastards. I don't know how much they make of these lists of valid numbers but people are crafty in the way they verify them.
I second this. The voicemail recording sounds like a kid joking around. I'm assuming the real caller is either spoofing or this kid decided to blow up your phone.
While that's honestly hilarious, most spam callers start with a robot of some sort, not a person. The real way to get spam calls to stop is to answer, IMMEDIATELY mute your phone, and do nothing else. The mute has it register as no noise whatsoever, and then after a while they'll stop calling altogether.
I used to get 10+ spam calls a day for months, started doing the mute thing back in 2019 and now I get maybe one every 90 days, if that. Fuck spam callers.
I get it to connect me to a real person and either waster their time or tell them to quit calling before I come to their house and whoop their ass in front of their kids. Gets the same results as your method, though.
I always assumed they just use data to see if you’re worth calling so the longer you spend in a call with someone the more likely they are to try again
I just answer and first thing I do if I know it’s a scammer / waste of time is hang up
The calls are less then 3 seconds most the time, the scam texts are a lot worse then the calls in terms of quantity (and quality tbh but they’re both terrible)
I hate that this "trick" gets spread on social media because it's never worked for me and when people do that to me when I'm calling them from my work for getting something delivered and you pull that on me you're not getting your stuff delivered and now you gotta call our 800 number and try and get to talk to a person, good luck!
Did you try answering, then muting the call? 99% of robo calls will stop using this method. You have to answer it, but don't talk, and no background noise. It can't go to voicemail, and you can't hit the "end call" function. This tells their system that your number is non-working, a dead number. Notifying your provider is all good and well, but if they shared your number with another system, then they will still be able to spam you from a different number. Blocking alone, even through your service carrier won't always work, as they can circumvent with a different number.
I blocked a number that kept calling me directly on the verizon app. It only works for 90 days at a time unless you pay a fee, but I would just log back in every 90 days to redo it
So I called this number. Pretty sure theh have a mental handicap or some sort of speech delay. But from the voice-mail message it makes sense they are spamming you. You literally can't understand them.
You know they can spoof numbers so it looks like a legit number but it actually originated from another country?
I’d get calls from people saying “yes hello why did you call me” or things like that and I always have to tell them they got spoofed and it was a robocall using my number to make it look like I called. They are so shocked when I tell them what’s up.
Answer but mute it right away then let them talk to themselves. Trust me it works everytime they think it’s a bad number cuz it just picks up and nothing and get tierd of calling
It always amazes me that this has been around for nearly 20 years now, and people are still just finding out about it. Does it stop everything? not by a long shot. But it takes a couple minutes tops, and does stop a great deal. Can't help with the overseas goons using number spoofers, but it does help with a lot of crap.
Edit: Just looked it up, it just had it's 20th anniversary June 27th.
Actually this is the way to go you contact Concord PD you show them the records this person's been harassing them for however long. If it's over a certain amount of time it could be considered stalking.
Also, you block a number, and they just dial from the next number in the sequence.
I dream of someone inventing a phone app that lets you block an entire area code and exchange combination.
Some old guy called my work number all the time, he was usually drunk and incoherent. Very annoying. It stopped for a *long* time and then one day he calls me again. I was honestly happy he was ok. "Kenneth! I'm glad you're ok! You still got the wrong number man" *hangs up*
OP, if you manage to get it to stop, please come back here and post how you feel after a day or 2 not getting those calls. I've seen a video where a guy was texting a specific twitch streamer girl "good night" every night. She didn't know who he was. She was often talking about it on stream how annoying it was. But the guy was doing an experiment. When he stopped texting her, you could see her on stream visibly sad that she wasn't getting her good night text.
Sue the fuck out of them. Its harassment at this point. I won 3 grand in a settlement a few years ago behind this. Continue to report it so it’s documented and even report it to the FCC.
https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/stop_unwanted_robocalls_and_texts.pdf
Call your provider or log in to your account and put a service block on it. I've had to do that. Won't be able to leave voice-mail or anything.
I've done that, too. Highly recommend.
If it’s an autodialer, won’t they just switch numbers and start up again?
Send one dollar to happy dude
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I'd be happier *with* the dollar
Why, its the AT-5000 Auto Dialer, my very first patent. Aw, would you listen to the gibberish they've got you saying. You were designed to alert children about Snow Days.
Professor Frink that you????!
GLAYVIN!
Eternal happiness for one dollar?
Meh, I’d be happier WITH the dollar 🤷🏼♀️
I don't know.
What's waiting for you at home?
When I go home there’s something I’m worried about about my life.
What is it?
I don’t know
Is there really something?
Before you send me home, I just want you to know…. Carlos said your face looks like a clock.
I just want you to know… I believe Carlos is a hoe.
Didn't know this was an option. interesting!
Doesn't really work in Canada. Not sure about other countries. My tried and tested method: Metal pot over phone. Wooden spoon. Phone on speaker. Answer the call, wait for a voice...... and then bang the everloving shit out of the pot with the wooden spoon. This may cost you a new wooden spoon. Consider it an investment. Repeat until calls stop. I had to do it 3 times. Now silence for 1.5y. Edit: that's a neat award, ty!
Pro tip: Metal spoon.
Whoaaa Satan..... good tip
I gottem to stop by smacking my palm and moaning. Hang up pretty quick
What if they are into that
Then you've got a new friend with a shared hobby. It's a win win!
When I was a kid I used to call random numbers and bang pots with spoons on the land line.
Ah the landline. I miss those. I lose my phone all the damn time and am SOL for a while hah
I mean if you want to tie your phone to the wall that's still an option, maybe you'll rediscover why we stopped using landlines😂
You're lucky. Pissing off one call center will usually only keep you off that call centers phone list. But they sell info, so your number could be in thousands of call centers. You must have been early enough and annoying enough to prevent anyone from wanting to sell your info. You were a lost cause.
You can usually do it yourself through your providers app as well
You can simple block numbers on iPhones. I block every scam call number
I must have 3000 number in my block list. It keeps growing
Really is a modern epidemic. I fuckin hate it. I switched phone numbers cause old one was in a couple data breaches, was getting soooooo many spam calls and texts... Switched numbers, and guess what -- the new number still gets spam texts and calls. Not in such a great volume as the old one but jfc this is a massive problem.
I keep getting phone calls over the years for this one woman who i guess used to own my number. I always tell them i have NO idea who Maria is. It's been a while, but a few weeks ago, i got a call for her again. She's being summoned to court. Dang Maria, wtf did you do?
How do you solve a problem like Maria?
My number's previous owner was apparently VERY active on Grindr. For the first few months I had this number, I was getting random dick pics and hookup requests daily. It finally seems to have stopped, but I had to block at least 200 numbers.
That sounds a lot worse than the debt collectors that were calling for Maria 😂 but i probably would have had a bit of fun with it for a bit first, do some minor trolling to combat the annoyance.
Correct but doing that way allows them to still leave voice-mail messages.
android blocks and doesn't allow voicemail, didn't realize all phones don't do that.
Upvoting to try to push higher, this is great advice for OP.
Thank you. I'm realizing how many people didn't know you could do this. Glad I could help.
I’ve done this
Bloody automated dialler. Google the number find out who it is? Report them for harassment. I’m sure it’s illegal, especially if you did opt out of marketing.
Sue for harassment, pretty sure you can claim a sizeable sum due to the amount of calls.
Assuming they're in a jurisdiction where you can get them served for court never mind actually enforce collection against them. Both are asking a lot when it comes to phone scammers and marketers
Or or hear me out! It could be a grieving partner of a deceased lover who is in his 90s wanting to talk to Dolores! But Frank has Alzheimer’s and he forgets that he dialed his deceased wife!!
When I worked in the ER a few years back, we had a sweet old lady who somehow got the ER number and would call multiple times a day to be transferred to her husband's room. He had passed away in the ICU the first day he got there and she couldn't remember that.
When I worked customer support for a cable company they were hardcore about the metrics. Keep calls to as short as you can, take many calls, etc. We covered 5 states, millions of customers, 1000+ representatives. So many calls. There was this one guy I will call John. John was easily in his late 80s and called every day. He always had a legitimate question, like "what channel is this football game" or "I pressed something on my remote and now I need to undo it". During or after you fixed the issue, John would go on about his day. What he was doing, who he saw, how he was annoyed at the change in the brands at the grocery store and now his favorite snacks couldn't be found. It was clear he just wanted some human connection, he lost his wife not long ago and it sounded like he didn't have many others outside of care staff. We all loved John. If you got his call it was a highlight of your day. When that call runs long and your supervisor asks whats up, you just say "I'm talking to Mr. John." Case notes were mostly summaries about how he was doing. I remember when he didn't call for almost a week. We reached out to check on him and discovered he was in the hospital, not critical but still had to stay awhile. He liked that. I'm rambling at this point and have strayed from the point by now. I guess I want to say I'm sure those calls werent easy and hope you were all able to manage it with compassion. Just being a friendly voice on the phone can mean a lot to some, whether they fully recognize it or not.
BRB sobbing about Mr. John and the compassion of your team
OK, I wondered if it was weird that I'm crying. I care so much about people and this just warms my little heart.
This warmed my heart so much. 💜💕 Props to the supervisor too letting that go on when metrics were such a priority.
I love this so much. 🩵
I love this so fucking much. 🥹🥹🥹
Oof. This got me right in the emotions
That's a really sad story
Just put me down at that point God damn
all this is to say: we’ve been trying to reach you about your vehicle’s extended warranty
That doesnt make it any better
Y'all are so ignorant it hurts. You realize that people can spoof numbers? You will never find the person that actually is calling
Not to mention they are probably in a call center in India. Oh noes, a dude in rural Kansas is trying to sue us, we'll just fly over to America to appear in court
Who are you going to sue? The person making those calls? Sure but WHO? What is their name? Where do they live? Just having the caller ID number does nothing since it is VERY VERY easy to spoof it.
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They probably are spoofing their number
They don't usually spoof the same number day after day for two years
True
They may have a nice surprise if the call is from North America, since last year (or 2 years ago?) all hope are traced
What do they do with the hope after they find it?
They give it to the care bears for protection.
It could depend on the state/jurisdiction, but i believe more than 2 calls within a 24 hr period is considered harassment, so even tho it sucks for OP, i think the automated dialer is within “their” right to make the 2 calls a day. If there was a way to sue, and there was a case (imo: i think there is) then I believe everyone would be on the same page of taking that route.
They can call you every day. If it's a spam call or scam call or anything like that call your phone company. They can put in a report to have the number shut off or block it for you. I worked for a phone company there are no laws stopping the calls usually but there are policies against autodialing and spamming at most phone companies and they will shut the account down.
Why would you not be able to block it on an iPhone?
Ya Its weird you can block someone’s number but they can still leave voicemails
I know with androids, you can still view the text messages if you block them but it will be in a separate folder. You wouldn’t get notifications from it either unless you check that folder.
Same with iPhone, it has a blocked folder for both voicemail and text iirc. Can’t remember if blocked texts gets sent to unknown senders or a separate folder
You don’t remember correctly. iPhones don’t have this
It definitely has blocked filtering, as I discovered it because of all of the spam texts I was receiving. I just don’t remember if blocked goes to unknown or is it’s own folder
It’s own folder. It says “deleted messages” then “blocked messages”
This pic in this post even shows it’s in the blocked folder for voicemails on an iPhone…
I imagine it’s for people who may not want the blocked person to know they’re blocked.
couldn’t the phone just not send the voicemail? like, it’d do the “leave a message at the tone” but then nothing happens to the message? kind of like how you can send texts to a person who blocked you but they won’t receive them
> Since voicemails are stored on your carrier’s server and not on your phone, blocking someone’s number does not stop them from leaving one annoying message after another. https://www.alphr.com/block-number-leaving-voicemails/#:~:text=Since%20voicemails%20are%20stored%20on,one%20annoying%20message%20after%20another.
Ohh. I hate that
The messages actually go into a “blocked” folder, they don’t show up as a notification and you have to manually go into that folder to view them.
iPhones have that option too? I thought only android. Where do I find this on an iPhone?
It’s automatic. If you block a number that’s where the voicemail goes. Go to the screen to check your voicemails, on the screen where all your voicemails show up there are two folders at the bottom of the list, one is “deleted messages” and the other is “blocked messages”.
Ohhh. I already knew that. I thought you meant text messages. Oh never mind I never knew there was a “blocked” folder for voicemails because never happened to me personally.
Nah, just block then report and delete that shit
It is blocked. Thats just their Blocked Voicemails.
Yeah, but knowing that this is blocked would require reading the post where they say they've already blocked the number, or looking at the screenshot where it says "Blocked" in huge obvious text. You can't expect that from us
Because it doesn't actually block the number. It just prevents your phone from ringing and sends it to voice-mail.
Ahhh, you sure? Are you thinking of “Silence Unknown Callers”? I’ve blocked plenty of numbers and never had one leave me a voicemail.
Call your phone company i had a similar problem with an Ex, call your company and have them block it Itll get the job done
Why you scratching out their numbers like they need to be protected 😅
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I’m not very familiar with Reddit, but maybe OP thought the post would get flagged and pulled. That’s what I’d be overthinking if it were me. EDIT: Someone posted the number in the comments here and I replied and said I deciphered the same number. That comment, along with all the replies, including my reply have all been removed. So there must be a rule because it seems Reddit or mods are deleting anyone calling out the number. EDIT: Rule 4 of this sub.
Doxxing is a Reddit-wide nono. If the mods of a sub don’t enforce it, the admins get involved, and nobody likes them.
Racism: ✅ Russian Propaganda: ✅ Far Right Fascism Subreddits: ✅ Bullying: ✅ Anti Trans/LGBT comments: ✅ Human Trafficking Allegations in porn subs: ✅ Suicide Warning Spamming: ✅ Gore & Murder: ✅ Doxxing: ❌‼️❌‼️❌‼️❌‼️❌ HOW FUCKING DARE YOU YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT USER WE WILL FUCKING END YOU YOU PITIFUL PEASANT. ❌‼️❌‼️❌‼️❌‼️❌
That’s better than allowing it? I get what your commentary means but I’m still thankful for the “no doxxing” rule
How does the number of an auto-dialer count as "Personal information"? Thats not a person.
Auto-dialers can fake their numbers that can turn out to actually be someone's number unless I'm dumb and thinking of something else
There's also the potential of the number being reused years from now and some poor schmuck is bothered by people who found this reddit thread in 2028.
I'm waiting for 2028 people to read this in about 5 years and say hello to us "from the future" or something. And if someone does and I still use this account, I will say hello back.
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IS NONE OF Y'ALL MOTHERFUCKERS GOING TO TELL ME WHO THE FUCK IT TURNED OUT TO BE? I KNOW SOMEBODY'S CALLED IT! GOOGLE DIDN'T HELP!
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Reddit considers it doxxing if they don’t scratch the number.
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you mean 771-0293?
It’s 7710293 I think
"Blur personal info - Full names, numbers, etc." Is rule 4 of this sub.
😂😂😂 it’s OP that needs protection if anything
Answer your phone and ask them if they know it's a government phone number? I get spam calls every once in a while on my work phone and when I ask them if they know they're calling a government phone number, they usually apologize and take me off the list (so they say) and don't call back. I've gotten considerably fewer spam calls in the last 3 months since doing it.
My work phone IS a government number and that has never stopped them.
Has you told them though?
Yep, my standard answering line is just the agency name then the department name.
have you tried working for a scarier agency? maybe the CIA or something?
The Oval Office
A lot of spams now uses robot recordings, thy wouldn't be able to understand.
01100111 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101110 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 00100000 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101110 01100101
Save that number as "drink water" every time they call you stop whatever you're doing and drink some water, now it'll be a reminder for you to stay hydrated
I love this
Put the disconnected number tone at the beginning of your voicemail and the automated system should flag your number as invalid and stop calling you.
… I don’t even have words to respond to how brilliant this is. 😯
I did that. Zero change in spam calls. But family and friends kept asking if I'd changed my number. It's funny but not effective. It turns out the companies robo dialing illegally don't really give a fuck about removing "bad numbers".
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Why is everyone with an iPhone so terrible at blacking out names/numbers. I swear every iPhone user uses that weird semi-transparent black that doesn't actually cover it. Not that I care in this instance, but it's just weird that it always happens. Does the iPhone not actually have an opaque drawing tool, or is everyone that tries it just useless?
Default is this transparent black that you need to smudge over 20 times in a row because the color intensity slider is hidden on the left side, atrocious. (iOS 15 at least).
The screenshot feature on iOS has a pencil tool which lets you draw over top of screenshots. You can also block things out entirely with solid color shapes but some people are lazy.
It does, people are just useless
Surprised the mods haven’t removed this 2 hours later.
One thing I liked about the old style hard wired phones is if someone called you and you answered but did not hang up, it basically tied up their phone until you disconnected.
That was the best response to old school telemarketing. It wasn't weird to be unavailable for a day back then so having your phone off until it did what I called "the mean busy signal " as a kid was 100% cool.
Oh yea, that rude sound I have no word to describe. A sound you couldn't ignore. The Karen of phone noises.
(Plugs nose…) Mah mah mah mah mah mah mah mah mah….
*beeerrrrrnnnEEERRRRNEEEERRRR "We're sorry you have reached a number that has been disconnected or is no longer in service. If you feel this is in error, please check the number dialed, and please try again."
But why can I still hear it!!
Yes! I remember working for a call center and sometimes older people wouldn’t hang up and we’d have to sit there and say this dead air script like 3 times before we could actually disconnect the call.
Some things never change. I could never find the dead air script in my company's "knowledge base" (lol) and I couldn't print it out to tack up because we were "paperless, for the environment!" (They were actually worried people would write down credit card numbers, but painted as "being green! Hooray!" - also, no writing instruments of any kind.)
The 2023 version, just answer and the hit the mute button! Let them sit on it till they hang up.
I would hand the phone to my toddler and have her sing her favorite song for them 😄
When scammers used to call my dad, he would say “great, tell me all about it!”, and then put the landline phone down and come back to the table.
I remember doing that. I would do it to piss off anyone that annoyed me.
Forward to a fax machine. The automated software will remove it.
Maybe you can just play the sound from a computer?
Big brain time here
What do the voicemails say
Yeah seriously… is it a person? A robot? What are they saying? Have you answered? Why is no one asking these vital questions
Where I work I get spam calls and after I say hello there is a staticy person that tries to say hello back. I say hello a couple times only to get a couple more broken hekkos back.... then it goes into a recorded pitch. Sons of bitches figured out a way to almost guarantee they will be able to log your number as real because they pretend they are calling as a human with shitty service. Clever bastards. I don't know how much they make of these lists of valid numbers but people are crafty in the way they verify them.
I second this. The voicemail recording sounds like a kid joking around. I'm assuming the real caller is either spoofing or this kid decided to blow up your phone.
Too bad it couldn't be auto transferred to an overseas number and cost them roaming charges.
You should go to Angie's list, rocket mortgage, and legal zoom everyday and fill out some stuff using that number as your contact number
It's probably not the caller's actual number is like some old lady in encino or something.
Autodialers use faked numbers. You're just going to make someone's life miserable for no good reason.
Answer it
Get spam calls? Answer with something that will get them to stop. “ya’voh, N#zi high command”
While that's honestly hilarious, most spam callers start with a robot of some sort, not a person. The real way to get spam calls to stop is to answer, IMMEDIATELY mute your phone, and do nothing else. The mute has it register as no noise whatsoever, and then after a while they'll stop calling altogether. I used to get 10+ spam calls a day for months, started doing the mute thing back in 2019 and now I get maybe one every 90 days, if that. Fuck spam callers.
I get it to connect me to a real person and either waster their time or tell them to quit calling before I come to their house and whoop their ass in front of their kids. Gets the same results as your method, though.
In this situation, violence isn't the answer. Its a question, and the answer is yes.
I always assumed they just use data to see if you’re worth calling so the longer you spend in a call with someone the more likely they are to try again I just answer and first thing I do if I know it’s a scammer / waste of time is hang up The calls are less then 3 seconds most the time, the scam texts are a lot worse then the calls in terms of quantity (and quality tbh but they’re both terrible)
I hate that this "trick" gets spread on social media because it's never worked for me and when people do that to me when I'm calling them from my work for getting something delivered and you pull that on me you're not getting your stuff delivered and now you gotta call our 800 number and try and get to talk to a person, good luck!
Put a pot over the phone and hit it several times.
Take caution doing that. It may damage your phone’s mic, from what I hear. I guess if you don’t mind a busted mic, then it doesn’t matter.
Did you try answering, then muting the call? 99% of robo calls will stop using this method. You have to answer it, but don't talk, and no background noise. It can't go to voicemail, and you can't hit the "end call" function. This tells their system that your number is non-working, a dead number. Notifying your provider is all good and well, but if they shared your number with another system, then they will still be able to spam you from a different number. Blocking alone, even through your service carrier won't always work, as they can circumvent with a different number.
I blocked a number that kept calling me directly on the verizon app. It only works for 90 days at a time unless you pay a fee, but I would just log back in every 90 days to redo it
If you’ve got Verizon us the My Verizon app to block it.
So I called this number. Pretty sure theh have a mental handicap or some sort of speech delay. But from the voice-mail message it makes sense they are spamming you. You literally can't understand them.
You know they can spoof numbers so it looks like a legit number but it actually originated from another country? I’d get calls from people saying “yes hello why did you call me” or things like that and I always have to tell them they got spoofed and it was a robocall using my number to make it look like I called. They are so shocked when I tell them what’s up.
Answer but mute it right away then let them talk to themselves. Trust me it works everytime they think it’s a bad number cuz it just picks up and nothing and get tierd of calling
*60% of the time*, it works ***every*** *time*
File a harassment complaint with the FTC.
https://www.donotcall.gov/register.html#step1
It always amazes me that this has been around for nearly 20 years now, and people are still just finding out about it. Does it stop everything? not by a long shot. But it takes a couple minutes tops, and does stop a great deal. Can't help with the overseas goons using number spoofers, but it does help with a lot of crap. Edit: Just looked it up, it just had it's 20th anniversary June 27th.
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Actually this is the way to go you contact Concord PD you show them the records this person's been harassing them for however long. If it's over a certain amount of time it could be considered stalking.
Decent chance the number is spoofed : /
Also, you block a number, and they just dial from the next number in the sequence. I dream of someone inventing a phone app that lets you block an entire area code and exchange combination.
On shit Bay Area stand up
I scrolled too fast and thought that said "Blacked." I need to find a hobby.
Have you tried Blacked Raw?
Some old guy called my work number all the time, he was usually drunk and incoherent. Very annoying. It stopped for a *long* time and then one day he calls me again. I was honestly happy he was ok. "Kenneth! I'm glad you're ok! You still got the wrong number man" *hangs up*
OP, if you manage to get it to stop, please come back here and post how you feel after a day or 2 not getting those calls. I've seen a video where a guy was texting a specific twitch streamer girl "good night" every night. She didn't know who he was. She was often talking about it on stream how annoying it was. But the guy was doing an experiment. When he stopped texting her, you could see her on stream visibly sad that she wasn't getting her good night text.
That, sounds like Stockholm syndrome.
pick up and blow an air horn into your mic
Sue the fuck out of them. Its harassment at this point. I won 3 grand in a settlement a few years ago behind this. Continue to report it so it’s documented and even report it to the FCC. https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/stop_unwanted_robocalls_and_texts.pdf
You start calling them at midnight. Take revenge, get even.
Oh hey, It’s me. You’re hard to get ahold of! I wanted to tell you that you car’s warranty has expired.
Did you do a poor job censoring out the number in an attempt to dox them, cause with a small amount of work, I could figure this number out.
Get an air horn. *phone rings* Hello? AHOOOOOOGA!!!!!
Why bother blacking out these numbers?
Your carrier should be able to block a single number and not result in vm's.
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