re: #51 ObserverArt

That doesn’t help when most of the time they are spoofing the numbers.

Those numbers you have blocked…call some and you might see they are bogus. You’ll get the no longer a working number or can’t place the call as dialed messages.

I get probably 6 to 10 a day. Mostly for credit card upgrades, health insurance and for medical devices like back and knee braces. A new one is someone calling saying they are looking at my AEP electric rates and want to give me a great rate.

I make the calls to who I want to do business with or not. I never give anyone anything over the phone in a call I didn’t make.

The spoof I’ve been seeing is that they use the same three digit prefix as my number. That way it “looks” like a local call. But it’s a cell number I’ve had since I was in high school (originally an “emergency only” phone) and I’ve never actually met anyone else with that same prefix. But yeah, anything that comes across with a toll free number or from out of area, it gets blocked; anything that doesn’t leave a message, it gets blocked; anything that does leave a message, it gets blocked.

I’m down to less than one a day, though my phone does still log the voicemails from blocked numbers. Which, I usually delete without listening to.