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Robocalls! Grrrrr!

I get at least half a dozen nuisance calls a day that my "Hiya" and NoMoRobo programs send directly to voicemail. My greeting says

"Please leave a message after the beep. If you're a telemarketer please leave it before the beep"

TheoryNumber3 8 Aug 11
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Can answer sheriff department fraud division

bobwjr Level 10 Aug 12, 2019
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Even when I block them, some of them switch numbers a few days later. As l have started blocking them there are definitely fewer. They should be illegal.

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Love your greetiing! I was getting several robo calls a day that were actually FaceTime calls, so I disabled my FaceTime and it drastically reduced the number of robo calls I was getting. I also blocked all foreign calls, which helped immensely as well. I have my foreign clients contact me through What'sApp instead.

What are FaceTime calls?

@Sticks48 On Mac/Apple devices, Facetime is an app that allows real time video calls between Mac/Apple devices, so the calls would go to my iPhone, iPad and MacBook computer.

If I were to accept the calls, theoretically the app would open and they would "see" me, and whatever I was wearing at the time, and hear my voice and surrounding noises. (extremely personally invasive)

Upon researching this phenomena of dozens of calls per day I was receiving, I learned that even by NOT answering the calls, the callers could be adding a third device to the call which could intercept the video and audio, opening the camera and mic on my iPhone/Tablet and record me without my consent. That is when I immediately blocked the app, and those calls ceased. Apple may have fixed that security issue, but I'm still wary.

I don't wish to be entertainment for strangers, who apparently are using this kind of privacy invasion to capture video of people undressed or in embarrassing situations to use for s/extortion, believe it or not.

I like to Facetime with my grandkids, but from now on, I initiate the call. I love the real time interaction. So many wonderful apps, but we all need to beware of people using them in nefarious ways!

@Julie808 Wow! I had no idea. Thank you for the information.
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Level 9

I love those callers, provided I have time. The idea is to keep them on line for as long as possible, until they begin to suspect it isn't their lucky day after all.

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Level 8

I block the calls, so that the phone cuts them off next time they call.

But.. but ,.,.but.... it might be someone letting you know you were the lucky winner of their random lottery.

@MissKathleen I would block that too. If I don't recognize who's calling, I immediately block the call. I can always unblock it, and call back, if the caller is someone I want to hear.

@Petter I can always unblock it, and call back, if the caller is someone I want to hear.

I have literally over 100 unknown numbers in my contacts that were blocked by Hiya and sent to my voicemail because they were suspected or known SPAM.
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Level 6

I just wish I had the luxury of not answering my phone. I am an emergency contact for local, state, and federal enforcement agencies, as well as the public at large. I, quite literally, cannot NOT answer my phone 24/7. So when I get robocalls it sends me into a rage.

I came up with a brilliant idea to get Congress to move on this, but it requires everyone in America to conspire to obtain and publish every MOC's private phone number simultaneously online. At that point, We The People start calling at all hours of the day and night in order to get the point across. These people have the luxury of changing phone numbers on a near monthly basis and rarely have to deal with the problems we of the common clay variety have to deal with. Of course it is not a concern for them, they are insulated from the problem.

You can't call them back. The number has always been "disconnected". They're illegally porting phone numbers to place the calls

@TheoryNumber3 I am referring to calling our MOC.

@Canyonrunner Sorry.. I didn't catch the acronym first time around. Much as I'd love to harass Congress I have a feeling there are some legal issues involved. Not that the ordinary citizen isn't being harassed on a daily basis.
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No shit everyone hates this

bobwjr Level 10 Aug 11, 2019
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