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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone notice a reduction in Robocalls?
Today is the deadline for phone companies to implement technology to prevent "spoofing" on calls. Caller ID will be verified from it's source using new technologies and protocols.
I am pretty sure that engineers from Moscow to Mumbai have already figured out how to defeat it....
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)3 this morning alone.
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)QED
(2,749 posts)Or that investors want to buy my home for cash????
csziggy
(34,138 posts)They won't talk to me about a warranty on my 1999 GMC Suburban. They just hang up on me when I ask.
yellowdogintexas
(22,275 posts)or that I can find help with my student loans (which I never had)
Interestingly, the Indian/Pakistani guys who call you about your Microsoft Windows being at risk seem to have gone underground.
BeerBarrelPolka
(1,202 posts)I'm actually getting more than I have in the past.
MANative
(4,112 posts)crazylikafox
(2,762 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,857 posts)I got at least two this week about my car warranty expiring. I don't even own a car!
NotASurfer
(2,155 posts)And no doubt if I clicked through on the URL in those texts, I'd get some mighty fine push-polling and multiple solicitations for funds to build the wall, suppress urban voting, give the police carte blanche to declare open season on scary brown people, and ensure chain of custody was documented for all women in the state so the state knew which man was legally allowed to make decisions on their behalf.
I don't live in TX, no idea why they think I'm Repub. those texts can stop any time.
Maybe the robocalls trying to get me to helpfully call back to correct the "misperception" that I'm a contractor looking for people who are looking for somebody to do some pressure-washing will stop.
Jim__
(14,088 posts)And, surprise, surprise, the numbers matched.
So, I googled "Scratch & match" and found I didn't really win $1,000,000.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... because we have Ooma and it's configured to ONLY allow known callers to ring through. All others go to voicemail and most robocallers never bother to leave voicemail.
msfiddlestix
(7,286 posts)I had attributed to a very determined intention on my part to manually block each of these calls, recently. So I'm not sure why.
Initech
(100,107 posts)It seriously is making me want to go Office Space on my land line!
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,275 posts)my phone may ring but "suspected spam" will pop up on the screen and the second ring doesn't happen.
maxsolomon
(33,418 posts)3-4/day, on our land line & our mobile lines.
The Warranty Dept., the IRS, and apparently I'm wanted by the Cops.
634-5789
(4,175 posts)...got 2 spammers today.
MrsCoffee
(5,803 posts)Last two weeks it has really ramped up.
Scrivener7
(51,025 posts)captain queeg
(10,267 posts)Since I dont have an account there, those are easy to get rid of.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,371 posts)... Apparently I ordered a new iPhone and it will cost $900 or so. I just needed to press "1" to accept the order, or "2" to talk to customer service.
There's another button, one that hangs up the phone.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)I DID get a congratulatory email telling me that PayPal approved my recent purchase of $518 worth of Bitcoin, but if I think there's some mistake I can just click here to straighten it out. At least it wasn't ye-gods-yet-still-another iPhone from Amazon.
FakeNoose
(32,787 posts)I have been diligently blocking every robo-dialed call into my landline for the last 3 or 4 years. Verizon allows me 300 blocked numbers and I'm using most of them.
Even with the blocked numbers I still get tons of spam calls, because the spammers know how to fool the software and grab real numbers from the local calling area. People are afraid to block those numbers because they think maybe it's their neighbors or something. It's not neighbors, it's spoofing spamming robo-dialers. To hell with all of them. I hope they're out of business now, as they should be.
ProfessorGAC
(65,224 posts)And no, we haven't noticed a reduction in robocalls.
The only difference is those numbers don't have (v) after them.
iemanja
(53,072 posts)I really hope it works.
pstokely
(10,531 posts)I got a bunch from both parties in 2016
Jim G.
(14,811 posts)We've been trying to reach you regarding your warranty...
MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Amy from medical services called to tell me so. I won the same medical device three times yesterday too. Amy said to press 1 to accept the device but when I press 1 I get a recording telling the number I called is not in service. First of al, I didnt call anyone. I guess I dont get the point of what theyre trying to accomplish.
multigraincracker
(32,729 posts)Got one about my unemployment account. Colorado number about my Ohio account and I live in Michigan. Did not click on it. Over 30 years ago was the last time I used UE.