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[grc]

I do the same.  Appears some of them are using computer generated fake Caller IDs, no way to block them effectively.  Yesterday I played Forest Gump with one for about 5 minutes.  Think I enjoyed it a lot more than they did.

The phone companies have the technology to block them, but they don't use it in this country.  At the telecom level they can identify spoofed numbers easily, before the call is routed to you. 

Jerry

[iski]

The phone companies have the technology to block them, but they don't use it in this country.  At the telecom level they can identify spoofed numbers easily, before the call is routed to you. 

Jerry

Agreed.  They could but they won't. Possibly is because they get a cut when some scam call back number is used to dial out of the country. Have read that Congress has considered legislation, apparently enough Congresscritters do not suffer from the scam callers as much because somebody else answers their phones at home. And they love telecom lobby money, long time.

[brassspike]

Had a problem with them years ago. I recorded the phone company's tones for disconnected number to my answering machine before the greeting. Made their computer think the number was bad. I guess they pass that information to each other. The calls stopped.

[ultrarider123]

Had a problem with them years ago. I recorded the phone company's tones for disconnected number to my answering machine before the greeting. Made their computer think the number was bad. I guess they pass that information to each other. The calls stopped.

Best solution yet....well done   

[deldago]

Nomorobo seems to work very well and it's free. I have been using it for about 6 months and the calls are intercepted and hung up on after the first ring. It is pretty well rated by PC magazine and others. You have to be with a carrier that supports it though. Some info on it for those interested. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492079,00.asp

[grc]

My understanding of the nomorobo system is that it only works on VOIP systems, and not POTS analog land lines.  So it would be of no help to folks like me who have retained a POTS line.  This system does illustrate however just how easy it would be for the phone companies to set up their own systems, if they actually gave a chit about their customers.

Jerry

[OBB]

Nomorobo seems to work very well and it's free. I have been using it for about 6 months and the calls are intercepted and hung up on after the first ring. It is pretty well rated by PC magazine and others. You have to be with a carrier that supports it though. Some info on it for those interested. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492079,00.asp

Going to have to look into that. While we never answer the house phone or even bother having the ringers or the answering machine on, it gets old seeing 30 missed calls per day on the caller ID. We only have a house phone because it's free and sometimes people call it that might have lost out cell numbers.

[OBB]

My understanding of the nomorobo system is that it only works on VOIP systems, and not POTS analog land lines.  So it would be of no help to folks like me who have retained a POTS line.  This system does illustrate however just how easy it would be for the phone companies to set up their own systems, if they actually gave a chit about their customers.

Jerry

As long as you keep paying that phone bill every month, they will tell you they care about you. As a customer facing tech I can tell you that if a customer calls in with a complaint against a tech, it is not taken lightly regardless of the circumstances.

[grc]

If our newly consolidated and thoroughly screwed up countywide 911 system could effectively locate addresses on anything other than POTS calls, the wife and I would have dumped that landline in a heartbeat.  There have been so many publicized screw-ups with the system over the past couple years, with more than a few people losing their life waiting for help, that my wife got nervous about dropping it when I brought the subject up.  AT&T would prefer that everyone drop POTS, since the government won't let them out of their requirements to maintain the system as long as people still use it and depend on it.  It's much cheaper for them to switch everyone to VOIP, and that's why they try so hard to convince folks to do so.

Jerry

[OBB]

If our newly consolidated and thoroughly screwed up countywide 911 system could effectively locate addresses on anything other than POTS calls, the wife and I would have dumped that landline in a heartbeat.  There have been so many publicized screw-ups with the system over the past couple years, with more than a few people losing their life waiting for help, that my wife got nervous about dropping it when I brought the subject up.  AT&T would prefer that everyone drop POTS, since the government won't let them out of their requirements to maintain the system as long as people still use it and depend on it.  It's much cheaper for them to switch everyone to VOIP, and that's why they try so hard to convince folks to do so.

Jerry

Many time I go to a house to install internet and voip and the customer (usually older) is unaware of why other than the fact that they'll be saving money. AT&Greed recently started doing voip for small businesses up to 6 lines. That's been a real fiasco.

[Yellow09SERG]

One I use from time to time when they ask my address is I ask them to hold on so I can go check on the side of the mail box for it and then just lay the phone down for several minutes