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Stupid Robocalls are out of control
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:55 am
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:55 am
Just received one: "Good morning, I want you to take a moment and stop EVERYTHING you are doing..."
So I hung up and sat there as still as possible
So I hung up and sat there as still as possible
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:56 am to theunknownknight
I don't get robocalls but I get a few 20 person group texts a day. And the boomers all text "STOP" to make it even worse.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:56 am to theunknownknight
I will jinx myself and say I have not had any in about a week. The month before that was really bad.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:57 am to theunknownknight
Should’ve told that robot to shut the hell up. Show those bastards they won’t take over the world that easily.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:57 am to theunknownknight
I'm at the point to where I automatically get pissed when my phone rings
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:00 am to Major Dutch Schaefer
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I have not had any in about a week.
married, eh?
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:00 am to theunknownknight
The FCC recently handed out some robocall regulations. Scam calls are up just to show how dickless the FCC really is.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:01 am to theunknownknight
Robocalls should be illegal.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:02 am to theunknownknight
Some guy at my work gets telemarketer calls every day and he gets so angry whenever they try to talk to him and he just says, "Why don't you get a real job you stupid, useless mother fricker."
I tell him the more you answer, the more they're gonna call you. Unless it's a number saved in your contacts, don't answer. He never learns though.
I tell him the more you answer, the more they're gonna call you. Unless it's a number saved in your contacts, don't answer. He never learns though.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:03 am to theunknownknight
I have to answer calls at work. I love it when they start off saying "Please don't hang up". CLICK 
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:07 am to theunknownknight
I stopped answering the phone about 10 years ago- unless the name on the ID is someone I know.
Best decision ever.
Best decision ever.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:08 am to theunknownknight
**Heavy Indian (dot not feather) accent**
"Good morning sir, this is pharmacy. Are you be needing drugs?"
I get this call at least 3 times a week.
"Good morning sir, this is pharmacy. Are you be needing drugs?"
I get this call at least 3 times a week.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:08 am to A Menace to Sobriety
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I tell him the more you answer, the more they're gonna call you. Unless it's a number saved in your contacts, don't answer. He never learns though.
This actually isn't true. If the phone rings at all, that confirms that it's a valid number.
I had an old flip phone I never answered, and it never stopped getting calls from random numbers.
Only way to get back at them is to answer, pretend to be interested, and waste as much of their time as possible. It's more satisfying because you get revenge, and it's more effective because it costs them time and opportunity so it hurts their bottom line.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:12 am to SportsGuyNOLA
I have an app called "Calls Blacklist" that has a setting that allows the blocking of all callers that are not in my address book. Everyone else goes straight to a voicemail app. Anyone can text, anyone can leave a voicemail.
I don't get robocalls at all anymore.
I don't get robocalls at all anymore.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:12 am to Bestbank Tiger
I used to get them too and once I stopped answering them, I don't ever really get them. If I do it's just once in a blue moon. Guess it may be coincidence.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:16 am to A Menace to Sobriety
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I tell him the more you answer, the more they're gonna call you.
This is where you are wrong. If you keep them on the phone for 15 minutes and waste their time they are not making money. If everyone wasted their time for 15 minutes their revenue would disappear and it would become unprofitable to keep calling.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:23 am to theunknownknight
I like to answer the extended car warranty ones and wait till the live sales person gets on after the recorded bullshite intro. Then I get them talking and tell them I drive a '69 Camaro SS and ask how much the extended warranty is on that. It's hilarious listening to them fumbling around trying to figure out what to do with that. Then I start telling them about my collection of Playboys back when women had a full eagle's nest in the lower mezzanine and ask if the collection is insurable. By this point, Rachel hangs up.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:23 am to theunknownknight
Equally as frustrating is everyone understanding the robo call bullshite but then not leaving a voicemail if I don’t answer
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:25 am to theunknownknight
I get so many sales calls and fake group texts every day that I don’t even look at my phone anymore unless I want to make a call or send a text. My son and husband have their own ring and text tones and I ignore everything else.
Posted on 8/19/21 at 10:31 am to SouthernStyled
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The FCC recently handed out some robocall regulations. Scam calls are up just to show how dickless the FCC really is
The problem for the FCC is Facebook v Duguid opened the floodgates in many ways, the 9-0 SCOTUS ruling took most of the teeth out of TCPA and it is now up to the legislature to rewrite it for the modern world and pass it again.
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