re: "Black box"

• Does not work; being unlisted makes zero difference, changing phone numbers gives peace for a few weeks. I do pass on new phone number to friends only and they do not blab. I use the standard 555-1212 on web forms.

Yeh; lies. I used *57 three times on a "no name no number" call, the recorded voice said the calls were traced and i would be charged $$$ each time. *LIE* I then called the given number, the so-called call annoyance bureau, and they HAD *NO* RECORD of them. I even told them the exact date and times - to NO avail. When i got the bill, i called Qwest office and they -->immediately

It seems odd that a lot of people end up in prison then.

What happened when you escalated it by making a complaint about the matter in writing?

Sylvia.

So you didn't say it was marketeers, but you didn't ask them why they thought it was marketeers?

Have you tried asking to speak to a supervisor?

Sylvia.

Perhaps it just doesn't work very well. Anyway, you need to keep focussed here. Your concern is not whether *57 works as advertised, but how to address the annoyance calls. The manual trace sounds like the appropriate course.

Sylvia.

On a sunny day (Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:46:00 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else wrote in :

Personally I think he should talk to a shrink first :-)

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Actually this is what I have been doing for years: I ask if this a courtesy call, if yes, I apologize, ask them to wait a second please and follow procedure above. Took less than 30 seconds of my time (I dropped my land line some time ago, they do not call cell phones.....yet). If everybody followed this procedure, phone telemarketing would die out

"UUU"

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Try this: Warn friends and selected relatives, unplug all phones and=20 anything else that might "pick-up" for a week.

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weeks.

Aha! So you are having an answering machine automatically answer?

Why don't you just build a box that prevents ringing if it doesn't recognize a "valid" CID? ...Jim Thompson

Sounds to me that one of your "friends" is not a friend ;-)

No wonder, if you whine to your friends like you whine here ;-) ...Jim Thompson

I confess that the thought had crossed my mind. The level of indifference he claims to have received from those whose responsbility it is to deal with the issue beggars belief.

Sylvia.

Nothing; not even the courtesy of a response "we do not care".

No; their attitude every time i called was that they do not care. After all, they have an infinite source of money from us taxpayers, so why should they (gasp!) work? I cannot climb up a vertical cliff.

"Manual trace"??? Just as fictional as *57.

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Well, you are _damn_ lucky they did not hang up the instant you answered. These idiots always hang up like that.

Have not tried a weeks worth, only a daze worth. Will keep it in mind. So far, it has been quiet after getting extra services (Call Rejection Enhanced, No solicitation, and 3rd Party Call Block).

I have been able to identify at lease two of the callers, one of which uses phone numbers scattered over the US, and a local one that uses a fraudulent name. If i catch either one, i will borrow a few thousand dollars and get a lawyer involved to collect that $500 per call plus whatever else will stick.

weeks.

Isn't that what i had been asking for?