On 1/7/2016 3:49 PM, Muggles wrote:
On 1/7/2016 2:42 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 11:48:44 AM UTC-5, KenK wrote:
I got a Pro Call Blocker and found it lacking. Very poor instructions.
Erased contacts without my telling it to. Wouldn't pass calls to telephone
system when in series. Many other problems. I sent it back today.

Any suggestions for a better one?

I may be wong but I'm afraid these gadgets may not be as helpful as we
would hope. I would think the computer programs telemarketers use would
change their fake caller id if a call was blocked until it goes through. I
would think life would be much better if the No Call List was enforced and
phone companies protected against fake caller ids and perhaps blocked ids.

What do you think?

TIA


Any form, website or company that requires a phone number gets
my landline number. Any person or entity that I trust and *want*
to hear from gets my cell phone number.

My landline phone has a built-in answering machine, i.e. not
voicemail. I *never* answer my landline because no call to that
number ever needs immediate attention.

Rough (made up) numbers:

90% of the time the landline rings and no message is left
after the machine announces the default "We are not
available" message.

10% of the time, a message is left and I deal with it at my
convenience. Since it's a regular answering machine, i.e. not
voicemail, it's just a matter of a few buttons to listen, skip,
erase, etc. I don't have to dial in to voicemail and listen
to annoying voice prompts to handle the messages.

On my cell phone, if I don't recognize the number (rare)
I just let it go to voicemail and check it later.

My system seems to be working because I am not bothered
by telemarketers or robo-calls on my cell phone and I
just delete the few that end up on my landline
answering machine.

I do the same thing with both land line and cell phone.

Occasionally, I'll get a call on the land line and the caller ID will
show my husbands name on it, but he's sitting in the living room
watching tv. How can someone spoof his name like that?



I, too, have gotten calls from myself.

Wife gets mad at me because I often pick up and become a loose cannon.

Never know myself what I might say.

She tells me I could go to jail for asking to speak to a white person or
something like that.

I tell her that if they come after me, I will be called a national hero