[Scan-DC] Voicemails for Indian Radio?

[Paul Bowling - W4ATN]

I've noticed a HUGH increase in calls to my cell even though I'm on the National Do Not Call list. Seems that charitable organizations (including fundraisers working for them), politicians and businesses that you have a "relationship" with AND their associated (partner) companies can still call. Likewise, I make heavy use of the BLOCK button. What I've noticed is they change up phone number even calling from a local exchange. Worse than SPAM.

Paul


Paul – W4ATN
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scan-DC [mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 13:51
To: Jeff Krauss <jeff at krauss.ws>
Cc: Scan DC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>; Alan Henney <alan at henney.com>
Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Voicemails for Indian Radio?

For those who have abandoned landline and/or VOIP lines and use only cell phones, most allow you to block pretty much an unlimited number of callers.  I've noticed a dramatic increase in spam calls on my cell phone in recent months, 99.9% of them being robo calls.  My iPhone allows call blocking and it works well.  Unfortunately, the ability of spam callers to spoof numbers seems to be unlimited, so it's a losing battle.  

Steve

> On Jan 30, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Jeff Krauss <jeff at krauss.ws> wrote:
> 
> There is a free service nomorobo.com that works with Fios and Xfinity and maybe other phone services that blocks robot calls.
> 
> At 10:44 AM 1/30/2016, John Wilson wrote:
>> FYI I don't live in the DC area but I get robo calls, spam calls, nobody answers when I pickup, etc.  I have Vonage which allows me to block up to 50 callers.  I maxed that number in a month's worth of unwanted callers.  But yesterday from Amazon I received the CPR CallBlocker Model V 1500.  It comes with 5,000 pre-entered known spammer and other unwanted call numbers to include international. It allows the user manually to enter up to 1,500 individual phone numbers to block.  Additionally, global setup entries can be made to block an area code, "Private", "Unknown" "International", "International with "00", and "Unavailable".   There is no separate power supply required.  It uses the phone's supplied line voltage. Your phone supplier must support "Caller ID". Yesterday at supper time, of course, I saw an incoming "Unavailable" call display.  Before it rang  5 times which then defaults to my voice mail, I quickly pressed the big red center button on CallBlocker called "BLOCK NOW" and immediately "SUCCESSFUL " displayed and good riddance caller.  CallBlocker 1500 was not a cheap item at $99/free shipping, but so far for me it is working as advertised and worth it.  Check it out if you wish and decide whether or not it is worth it for your situation. My only criticism is the user's guide is multi-language and needs to provide a more in-depth discussion in English of the unit's features and options.  A Customer Assistance number is provided. John Alan Henney wrote: > Is anybody else receiving these phone messages in the Washington, D.C. area? > > This was at least the second time we’ve gotten this call. > > Friday’s call came from (605) 477-5099. > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49563419/msg0001.WAV  > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Alan > ______________________________________________________________  > Scan-DC mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc >  Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Scan-DC mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/scan-dc Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
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