Thread: Annoying phone calls

Go to DO NOT CALL Register site - https://www.donotcall.gov.au/ and it may stop a lot of this crap,

I have got 4 of these r soles today after a good drought of their calls and one tells me that my phone system stops tomorrow and I have to change. He got told to go forth and not to multiply.

I will be calling Consumer Protection tomorrow about the influx of this type of call and ask others to do the same.

Tell them they rang the police dept and you are tracing the call.

Do not call register is a waste of time turn on your answering machine they will soon give up, they have interest in talking to a machine

China, I'm talking about my mobile phone, no answering machine involved.

Ken

Hi Ken

I suggest you need to be more aggressive with your phone "voice".

If you don't recognise the number or caller, perhaps answer the phone --
"I don't recognise this number, who are you?"
"I don't know who you are, what do you want to sell me today?" or "What do you want me to buy?"

the aim is to throw the caller off their script and allow you to quickly decide to terminate the call.

If there's a distinct pause (2 to 3 seconds) between answering the phone and hearing the other party's voice, just hang up.

The other option you have is not to answer calls where there is no caller ID.
It just takes a little practice to learn to ignore a ringing phone.

Hi Ian, ignoring the call is exactly what I do now, I guess eventually they will give up.

Ken

This from the manual of my Samsung Note 4:

So, according to that, you can forward automagically any unknown number callers to voice mail.
My personal problem with that is, my carrier charges me for checking voice mail .... even though
I have bazillions of free minutes. Slick operators, aren't they?
Quote:
Reject a call with a message

You can easily reject an incoming call with a text message. Simply drag the small tab displayed below the call screen, choose a message and tap on Send to cancel the incoming call. You can have up to six different call rejection messages. To create a custom one: Go to Settings > Device > Call > Set Call Rejection Messages and tap on the + button displayed next to Create new message.
Create a call reject list

You can create a call reject list to block unknown numbers or unwanted contacts. Calls made from numbers added to the reject list are automatically forwarded to your voice mail. Open the Contacts app and then tap on the Menu button > Settings. Go to Call > Call rejection > Auto reject list. Tick the Unknown number checkbox to automatically block calls from unknown numbers. Tap on Create to create your call reject list.

Originally Posted by neksmerj

Hi Ian, ignoring the call is exactly what I do now, I guess eventually they will give up.

Ken

"They" won't give up because a computer is doing the dialling.