How to stop robocalls?

May 23, 2020, 10:52 PM

jimmy123x

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Answer the call. Chat with them. Ask about their family. What are they wearing? Do they have underwear on? What color is it? Are you coming to visit me? Will you bring ice cream? The possibilities are endless.

Yes, the best are the "your car warranty is expired and you need an extended warranty" So you start talking to someone, tell them you have a 1996 truck.....then tell them you have 526,000 miles and how much will a warranty cost. etc.

April 22, 2022, 05:08 PM

radioman

Medicare Supplement insurance. Seriously like 10 calls a day spoofing numbers in my area code.

This is a new thing. Didn't happen until recently.

April 22, 2022, 05:32 PM

P250UA5

quote:
Originally posted by jimmy123x:
quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
Answer the call. Chat with them. Ask about their family. What are they wearing? Do they have underwear on? What color is it? Are you coming to visit me? Will you bring ice cream? The possibilities are endless.

Yes, the best are the "your car warranty is expired and you need an extended warranty" So you start talking to someone, tell them you have a 1996 truck.....then tell them you have 526,000 miles and how much will a warranty cost. etc.

The next one I get, it'll be for my 1994 McLaren F1. Is the gild foil in the engine bay covered by the warranty?

Then, maybe the Koenigsegg I keep for a weekend car.

The 300SL Gullwing would be great to get covered too.

April 22, 2022, 06:07 PM

mark123

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Originally posted by Perception:
Don't answer if you don't recognize the number.

Those of us running a business cannot just ignore calls. It doesn’t work anyway because I got a robocall yesterday from a number in my contacts list.

April 22, 2022, 06:19 PM

P250UA5

quote:
Originally posted by mark123:
quote:
Originally posted by Perception:
Don't answer if you don't recognize the number.
Those of us running a business cannot just ignore calls. It doesn’t work anyway because I got a robocall yesterday from a number in my contacts list.

Yep, luckily I only have to answer numbers from area codes from our field offices, the rest get ignored

April 22, 2022, 08:50 PM

Rey HRH

quote:
Originally posted by V-Tail:
Answer the call. Chat with them. Ask about their family. What are they wearing? Do they have underwear on? What color is it? Are you coming to visit me? Will you bring ice cream? The possibilities are endless.

That's what I do. Especially with the car warranty calls. I let them pass me on to their closer. She goes through their spiel. I ask questions. Then when I have to choose between plan a or plan b, I say, I don't think so. Then they give me plan c. And I still say no.

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.