How to handle Robo Calls: How to handle Robo Calls. This will give you a good laugh. Another way I remember is from a Jerry Seinfeld episode where Jerry receives a RoboCall, and Jerry...

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

How to handle Robo Calls.

This will give you a good laugh.
Another way I remember is from a Jerry Seinfeld episode where Jerry receives a RoboCall, and Jerry answers telling the caller he has been wanting to talk to him, but he is a little busy at the moment. He asks the telemarketer if he can call him back this evening at his home number when he will have more time to talk. The telemarketer responds that they don't give out their home number or take calls at home, and Jerry replies, "You don't take calls at home...? Well, now you know how I feel." And click! He hangs up.

Liberty Tree

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I think it would be a good idea that if one receives a robot call or telemarketer they do not want they could punch in a code and the caller would be charged a dollar which would be credited to the callee's phone account. Can you imagine if enough people did this?

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

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Tuck, thanks for the download.

I remember that episode of Seinfeld well, and have been using various ways to toy with telemarketers ever since....when I don't mind taking the time. The problem is, they keep coming in waves, and a 'no-call' list does little to no good. We decided just to ignore any calls when we don't recognize the caller ID.

EmilyD

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....and it sure did give me a good laugh! Thanks!!

son of witless

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I used to get robo calls on my company cell phone about unwanted pregnancy. So I answered yes I am pregnant and a drug addict. Then it really got fun.

Robert Wilson Loc: Texas

Another way to slow the ROBO; If you have two phones, have both near most of the time. When you receive the ROBO, punch which ever button to reach a live salesman. Activate the second phone, when the live one answers, place the face of one phone close to the other. The "salesman" will hear a screeching sound that will remind him not to call again.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

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Glad you enjoyed it!

My Dad, when he was still alive, was a retired LAPD and he used to do stuff like this, and toy with the "You've won a Prize" People. He would keep them on the phone for 30 minutes and play along because he used to be a fraud investigator at the D.A., Insurance Crime Prevention Institute, and the CA State Bar, after he retired from LAPD.

"Do not call" is a waste. Consumer Reports has been trying to strengthen the laws for some time now. You would think that Congress, as impotent as they are to do almost anything, could at least stop these annoying people from calling by enacting some stronger laws and fines. I don't even answer my phone anymore. It rings twice an automatically goes to message. No identification on the phone other than to say, "Please leave a message."

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

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I have an odd way of dealing with the robo calls. When I realize that is what it is I say "Hold on a minute, Zeus handles the business calls, and put the phone down telling Zeus to handle the call, the Mastiff barks loudly for ten minutes, drives them crazy.

1ProudAmerican

If I don't recognize the number I may answer with, "Lawrence police, fraud division".... or "Marion County morgue, how many bodies are you bringing us?" I get immediate hang-ups …

Sometime I'm going to say, "I'm so glad you called, none of my neighbors will talk to me. I think they figured out I k**led their dog".

Usually I just don't answer and most hang up before my answering machine message is half done.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

1ProudAmerican wrote:

If I don't recognize the number I may answer with, "Lawrence police, fraud division".... or "Marion County morgue, how many bodies are you bringing us?" I get immediate hang-ups …

Sometime I'm going to say, "I'm so glad you called, none of my neighbors will talk to me. I think they figured out I k**led their dog".

Usually I just don't answer and most hang up before my answering machine message is half done.

EmilyD

I signed up with NOMOROBO but it has it limitations. However, I don't get many robo calls either. It's free.

Currently, Nomorobo Mobile is available on iPhones 5s and up, running iOS 10 and up. Also now available on all Android devices 4.1 and up! Nomorobo Mobile will not work on any cellular device that is not a smartphone.

If a call gets through into my cell, I just block it. After a while they stopped trying to call me.

America 1 Loc: South Miami

EmilyD wrote:

I signed up with NOMOROBO but it has it limitations. However, I don't get many robo calls either. It's free.

Currently, Nomorobo Mobile is available on iPhones 5s and up, running iOS 10 and up. Also now available on all Android devices 4.1 and up! Nomorobo Mobile will not work on any cellular device that is not a smartphone.

If a call gets through into my cell, I just block it. After a while they stopped trying to call me.

You called a crime scene, how well did you know the victim?

jim_shipley

The only way to stop this is to let it be known that we will not reelect any incumbent as long as we keep getting robo calls. That is all that will work.

Smedley_buzkill

slatten49 wrote:

Tuck, thanks for the download.

I remember that episode of Seinfeld well, and have been using various ways to toy with telemarketers ever since....when I don't mind taking the time. The problem is, they keep coming in waves, and a 'no-call' list does little to no good. We decided just to ignore any calls when we don't recognize the caller ID.

That's why my phone has caller ID and a handy-dandy mute button for the ringtone.

GmanTerry

slatten49 wrote:

Tuck, thanks for the download.

I remember that episode of Seinfeld well, and have been using various ways to toy with telemarketers ever since....when I don't mind taking the time. The problem is, they keep coming in waves, and a 'no-call' list does little to no good. We decided just to ignore any calls when we don't recognize the caller ID.

I used to do that too, Slat. Then I realized that the reality was that I was validating my number and after I made the robocaller angry, he passed my number on to other robocallers. Your present solution is, I believe, the correct one. Voicemail for anyone I do not recognize.

Semper Fi