Has anyone else been relentlessly hammered with spam calls this week?

Some weeks are worse than others wanting to loan me money or resolve IRS issue. I’ve been picking up then hanging up and blocking. If I decline the call it goes direct to vm and I don’t want the vm. Spammers should be shot on sight. Since I’ve been doing this there seem to be less calls.

I get em all day everyday. Just answer, scream into the phone and hang up.

Verizon seems to make it difficult af to disable voicemail. And, to make it worse, you get unlimited voice mails so I can't even let them fill up my box.

My service is with Visible and it's part of Verizon. They had no issues not setting up VM when I switched carriers.

Who didn't know how to disable VM was Mint Mobile, which is how Visible got me.

Just a FYI, but avoid answering unknown numbers if possible. When you answer then hang up it keeps your name on the list, but if you don't answer, after a few times calling your name will be removed from their list.

The scammers buy list with many numbers on them. If they call 250 people a day, they just need one to bite, but they want to eliminate numbers that would be a waste of time calling, but if someone answered then hangs up, its considered potential. Then some of them will turn around and sell their list, which they can get more for because they have filtered out the numbers that don't answer. If you do answer then hang up then that list with your number can end up going to 3, 4 more scamming outfits.

I am getting hammered by fricking political text messages from Ted Cruz and Trump and every other republican. Geez how bad is it going to be when we get closer to the midterms??


I used to block them as spam but I guess that just shows them you have a live number. I hate it.

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It goes to vm and also lets them know it’s a valid number. Same darn msg multiple times per day. I find when I pick up then hang up preventing vm it slows down the calls.

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They know it's a valid number as soon as it doesn't generate an error message.

Don’t think I have gotten a spam call in couple years. I have heard some they get lots of political text too. I have never gotten one. I assumed because I never donated to political party

Also, last year $3.5 billion was lost in scams.

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What I don't understand and maybe it can't be done, but IMO these are the things our government should take action against. Maybe nothing can't be done because they are not in the US, but things seem to get done when they need to, but why can't the US government do something about this? You telling me they can't work with the countries these people operate in that will punish them enough it wouldn't be worth doing? It just seems like $3.5 billion is enough to make the assumption that there were people, older people, people not in their right mind, etc who lost significant amount of money.

$3.5 billion comes out to be scamming 35,000 people out of $100,000. 35k people is less than 1% of the population so when you look at it like that.. If they called everyone with a phone number (which would be less than the population because some people don't have phones especially kids of a certain age, etc).. But even if we say 200,000,000, 35k is still a very small percentage. It just seems like this is something the government could do that would actually protect and help people... And for everyone else, eliminate the bull shite calling.