Spam / Robo / Marketing Calls - How to avoid these?

#72

My area has 3 area codes, this ia very common as more and more customers add to network.

#73

I am planning to start publishing GV as primary number for my cell and forward calls to my cell, it’s pain since I need to change it in lot of places for banks, school, office, utility… :tired_face: to see if these reduce the number of spam calls… gradually, change my cell number permanently.

#74

I not done this myself but you can port your existing number to GV, I’m not sure how you get your telco then provide you another number, but porting to GV a published option. I always began with GV and just added lines to it. So uncharted territory.

https://support.google.com/voice/answer/1065667#xferin

Also note that some banks won’t let you register GV and also banks are not calling you with Spam so much so you can leave them registered to your real number. e.g. Wells Fargo will not work with Google Voice, but Chase does.

The primary advantage of GV is you have many lines and if your travel a USA number will work wherever you are, becomes a VOIP Hangouts call when not physically in USA.

#75

Heard about some horror stories of porting from Verizon / ATT to GV - when port does not complete, number is orphan and will not receive calls :flushed:… So it’s easier to just change all my published number on all sites…making a list of sites I need to change … It’s a biggg list

#76

I don’t even know how many Atlanta has lol think it is 3 or 4

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#77

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#78

It’s incredible that such things are allowed somehow and you need to go through all that trouble to make it stop

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#79

I know, but there are ways to do it

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#80

I just got all of the internet portals (banks, utilities, … blah blah ) updated with my Google Voice for Cell phone… :sweat_smile: took me literally 2 days to document all the sites (sure, there will be some missed… but covered important ones)… I am done with it!!!

Added my cell phone as forwarding number … will wait for next couple of months and then get a new number :slight_smile:

#81

Here is the useful article about this issue https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2019/02/07/no-more-robocalls-how-block-unwanted-calls-iphone-android/2778059002/
Or you may call your provider and kindly ask to filter your number of this calls

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#82

thanks for sharing this article :slight_smile: I have tried all these steps :smiley: - these still didnt help much

Had to come to some innovative (cumbersome though) steps, with help of details and inputs from everyone on this post… almost done, need to see how it works out

#83

US Senate has passed a bill cracking down on robocalls, which also accelerates & hopefully enforce the rollout of so-called “call authentication” technologies callee as industry standards – known as SHAKEN/STIR which could cut down on the number of calls coming from unverified numbers.

Heres to hoping this brings some relief to users in near future.

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#84

You ain’t playing around with those spams calls anymore :joy: hope you don’t get any more

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#85

Almost there… Lot of calls filtered on Google Voice - … Landlines as well calls are filtered

#86

I might have to do that myself then :thumbsup:

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#87

Found an app on Apple Appstore which to some extent can block international spam calls.

Phone Pattern Blocker

Will write up a detailed note soon on what I did to overcome the whole spam thing on my landline and cellphone.

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#88

Who needs a land line any more we don’t costs a fortune get rid of it!! Mobile phone bills are cheaper :slight_smile:

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#89

Many homes still have a landline, I still own one :slight_smile: its very useful… all though everything has converged to SIP / VoLTE

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#90

I agree we’re a Vodafone house hold we get excellent coverage we love it I guess it was for some and doesn’t for other cant for for WiFi in the stars :joy::joy::joy:

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#91

Many times Wireless providers share same cell tower services… And if that goes down close to home, then all will be watching stars… I have seen this happen, and had a landline at the time… :slight_smile:

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