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4th April 2017, 09:53 PM #1Product designer retired
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Annoying phone calls
I am being pestered by a caller who rings me two or three times a day and my problem is NO CALLER ID
Does anyone know of a way of tracing the caller, preferably free.
There's a good web site called Reverse lookup Australia that I find useful for looking up numbers I don't recognize. Invariably they are spam callers.
Ken
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4th April 2017, 10:11 PM #2Member
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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.
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4th April 2017, 11:27 PM #3GOLD MEMBER
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Tell them they rang the police dept and you are tracing the call.
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5th April 2017, 01:59 AM #4China
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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
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5th April 2017, 02:11 AM #5Product designer retired
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China, I'm talking about my mobile phone, no answering machine involved.
Ken
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5th April 2017, 10:10 AM #6
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.regards from Alberta, Canada
ian
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5th April 2017, 02:30 PM #7Product designer retired
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Hi Ian, ignoring the call is exactly what I do now, I guess eventually they will give up.
Ken
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5th April 2017, 04:47 PM #8
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?
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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.
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