To: | john niolon <jniolon@att.net> |
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Subject: | Re: [Shop-talk] annoying calls |
From: | Paul Parkanzky via Shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net> |
Date: | Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:35:41 -0400 |
Cc: | shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net> |
Delivered-to: | mharc@autox.team.net |
Delivered-to: | shop-talk@autox.team.net |
References: | <D820C708132C48AAB11F3A857BC77683@Johnsdesktop> |
The short of it is that there is nothing you can do that will be effective. Don't answer. If you do answer (I have a number for my business that I have to answer because I get legitimate calls from people I don't know) then don't speak or press any buttons. Your interaction makes your number more valuable and it will be sold/traded to other shady marketers and scammers. There's almost no point in blocking numbers because the 'good' scammers will never call you from that number again. The way to fix this is to stop number spoofing so that there will be traceability/accountability for callers. This is technically very easy but the telecom companies have no financial incentive to flip that switch and this is a place where I feel like congress is failing us. 99.99% of these calls are either predatory or outright scams and they cost everybody something (if not just annoyance and inconvenience) and vulnerable people huge amounts of money. They could be all-but eliminated with some good legislation requiring the telecoms to prevent number spoofing and restricting anonymous calling. /rant. -Paul On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:09 PM john niolon via Shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net> wrote: > > for some time Iâ??ve been getting calls on cells phones and home phone > offering me â??lower credit card ratesâ?? and have a limited time to reply... > when I press â??1â?? to speak to an associate, I get a foreign being speaking > almost english and when I tell him to stop calling they hang up..these calls > are two to three times a week and sometimes twice a day. Today I called > their 800 number and got bank of america. After three failed attempts and a > call back I finally spoke to a person and she told me it was a scam and they > mask their number and it shows BoAs 800 number. She said there was nothing > they could do... but put me on BoAs do not call list but offered no > incouragement that that would stop the calls > > Is there anywhere I can take this to get it resolved... I canâ??t seem to > block the number on my home phone since it[s a 800 number and havenâ??t found > a way on the cells yet... come on phone/tech/gurus... little help here > > thanks > John > > _______________________________________________ > > Shop-talk@autox.team.net > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Suggested annual donation $12.96 > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/shop-talk > > Unsubscribe/Manage: > http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/shop-talk/parkanzky@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Shop-talk@autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $12.96 Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/shop-talk Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/shop-talk/mharc@autox.team.net |
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