http://www.abine.com/blog/2013/how-to-block-calls-from-telemarketers/
Your comments about blocking telemarketers, Please
Your comments about blocking telemarketers, Please
How to Block Calls From Telemarketers
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SifuPhil
R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
- Location
- Pennsylvania, USA
I use the far easier technique of not having a phone.
Works wonders.
Decent advice on that website, but being the tin-foil-hat-wearing type of guy I would still be leery about giving my numbers to any government agency these days. If they want it they can just get it the old-fashioned way - have the NSA eavesdrop on my calls.
Many of the reverse-phone look-up services now charge for access to their databases, so that might slow down a little of the traffic to our phones, but it isn't going to affect the professionals.
The final advice - just say no to giving out your number - is golden.
Works wonders.
Decent advice on that website, but being the tin-foil-hat-wearing type of guy I would still be leery about giving my numbers to any government agency these days. If they want it they can just get it the old-fashioned way - have the NSA eavesdrop on my calls.
Many of the reverse-phone look-up services now charge for access to their databases, so that might slow down a little of the traffic to our phones, but it isn't going to affect the professionals.
The final advice - just say no to giving out your number - is golden.
That Guy
Homegrown Unknown
- Location
- Monterey Bay
My old answering machine is my poor man's butler. Everyone and I mean EVERYONE talks to the machine before reaching me. I love it.
Heard once about a guy who would just hand his phone to his three year-old daughter when the they called. Had another friend who would just talk to them forever and string them along . . .
Heard once about a guy who would just hand his phone to his three year-old daughter when the they called. Had another friend who would just talk to them forever and string them along . . .
SifuPhil
R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
- Location
- Pennsylvania, USA
When I still had a land-line and was feeling frisky, whenever I got a telemarketing call I'd start doing one of my voices.
The poor schlubs would have to talk to an outrageously gay man, an immensely fat man, several celebrities and a dog.
They usually never called back.
The poor schlubs would have to talk to an outrageously gay man, an immensely fat man, several celebrities and a dog.
They usually never called back.
JustBonee
SF VIP
- Location
- Texas Gulf Coast
Got rid of my land-line phone about 10 yrs. ago. Good-bye annoying telemarketing calls.
Have a phone service on my computer, and my cell phone. ..neither generate all the unwanted calls.
Having a little kid around to take those annoying calls is priceless!! My son-in-law does that.
(Also, if someone comes to the door selling something - he tells them he doesn't live there - just visiting.)
Have a phone service on my computer, and my cell phone. ..neither generate all the unwanted calls.
Having a little kid around to take those annoying calls is priceless!! My son-in-law does that.
(Also, if someone comes to the door selling something - he tells them he doesn't live there - just visiting.)
BurgerBoy
Chick Magnet
- Location
- Western Kentucky
I love that!!! imagine how the caller must have felt; LOL!!
I have at times, acted like I didn't understand them...or said whoever they called for had moved on or moved out. Once I told the operator to "Trace this call", and hung up...(that was with a persistent caller). I don't have fun with them unless they keep bugging me, then it can get pretty hilarious.