I got the triple whammy - calls for me, my elderly father's phone forwards to me, and I still get calls for my mother that has passed - 6 years ago

I use the four ring rule auto dial hangs up after four rings as I have found out and if they do get through to landline I ask how they got an unlisted number and they hang up really not getting many of those calls these days.

Grand kids are great in the right age.

Never answer a call you don't know. Even picking up and hanging up alerts them to activity and they'll keep calling your number. Once I stated doing this and got on a no call registry I get absolutely zero spam/scam calls

I got 17 and the wife recorded 12 today. Good thing “silenced unknown call” is working!

Been getting unwanted calls from NC town of Knotts Island.

My wife has this down, she can sound just like a amped up chinese woman and spews jibberish at them...I tried it myself the other day, and just kept repeating "ching-chang" over & over...Turns out that is a bonafide Asian ethnic slur! ...They never called back, Lol.

I must be too handsome!

Chris

Not much here for quite a while.
Gid get 3 calls and some mail from a bank wanting to give e a credit card,lol.
I tell them I dont believe in credit and credit is why there is so much scamming going on,that kind of leaves them speechless long enough for me to hang up.
I did get a call this morning from the trapstore in N Bay,my tanned fur is in the mail.

I blocked about 35 different numbers. social security seems to let them know when we hit Medicare age. They started just after the paperwork started from ssa. AND THEY ALL WANT TO RIP YOU OFF.

I had to get DOT numbers for our business and made the mistake of using my actual phone number. I get 3-5 calls a day and at least that many texts from compliance companies. My old Google phone used to be good at filtering them as spam but the new Samsung doesn't.

We cut the landline off here because of those calls

we stopped answering the land line years ago , I use it for work for outgoing calls only

this is the cell phone now

Some people still have landlines ? I guess I would not have guessed that.

Same here Paul

We won Publishers Clearing House Grand prize and and another Contest. Going to be Billionaires

I spend hours a day on the phone for work , I have an old school Plantronics over the head , headset

my longest single call to date is 11 hours 40 minutes but I have gotten over 10 hours a few times.

people break stuff and the call doesn't end till we have it fixed or are converted to whatever backup plans we have in place or just created.

although admittedly a lot more of it is moving to teams , zoom and webex , there are days I don't pick up the phone headset anymore , just go teams meeting to teams meeting all day.
the phone and bridge is a good backup yet.
I also have a quality over the head headset on my pc because 3-4 hour calls are frequent and multiple 2 hour calls in a day is the norm.

We're on the do not call list and still get calls all day long. We let the answering machine screen them, they usually use a town name on the caller ID, so I don't know what they're selling, we don't answer it

I have a landline. Had one since I bought the place before cell phones. Most of the junk calls I get no one is on the other end. Get political surveyors which I dont answer. I want to know what a politician thinks not have them tell me what I want to hear. Every now and then I get a call on it from someone claiming to be from the electric company wanting to give me a 30% discount or something. Get calls from my TV service even though I dont have a TV service. Nothing like the Iranians calling my cell though.

Ever since I set my cell phone so unknown numbers go straight to voicemail yesterday I have not gotten a scammer. No voicemail either or missed call notice. Thanks again ADC.

If I don’t recognize the number I don’t answer it. If they don’t leave a message I block it. If they do leave a message and it’s a solicitor I block it. Bet I have blocked 10,000 numbers.