Yes, Jim, and you have annoyingly brought this same complaint up 3 or 4 times, over the last 8 months. And I am generally, the only one that replies.?
The only other suggestion I have for you is to turn off the cell phones you own, and just use landlines. It won¡¯t stop the spam calls, but at least you won¡¯t have to waste time deleting them from the recent call logs.?
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On Jan 12, 2024, at 15:10, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
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On Jan 10, 2024, at 12:12?PM, JAMES ROBERTSON <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?I¡¯m tiring of having to delete obvious incoming spam phone calls manually.
That¡¯s how I began this thread a few days ago. Brent took the bait and engaged, but we didn¡¯t make much progress. The one change I made was to begin routing every call listed as ¡°potential spam¡± AND bearing the checkmark that says it¡¯s ¡°verified by the carrier¡± to voicemail, wherein my outgoing automated message specifically states I don¡¯t respond to telemarketing calls. I¡¯ve noticed over the past two days that more than 50% of the calls that I¡¯m receiving now come from a variant of the following number: ?855-570-xxxx. Typically, when I click the ¡°voicemail¡± button on my Phone app those generate a ¡°fractionally recorded¡± message that occasionally includes a return number to call (DIFFERENT from the caller ID number, but with the same area code and prefix. I¡¯ve not paid attention to whether the number I¡¯m instructed to call remains the same from attempt to attempt, but IF it is, does anyone here how likely am I to obtain some satisfaction by making an FTC complaint to the national ¡°do not call¡± registry?
The government website lists quite high penalties for violations, but includes many exceptions, such as for political messages and charities, and the protections offered for cell phone accountholders seem to be less powerful than those who receive such slime on POTS lines.
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Jim Robertson
Brent