I'm inundated with two types of calls lately. One is for supplemental health insurance to go with my Medicare. I thought the open enrollment ended on December 7th. After that date, the calls eased up a lot, but now they're back again. When I tell them I have Tricare for life, they hang up on me. The phone numbers show up on caller ID as towns in NC.

The other calls are for burial insurance - lol. I tell them I'm not there yet.-

yes and it annoys the dog crap out of me

Nothing yet.Only life insurance from AAA in the mail.No calls.

4 to 6 calls a day.
Just ignore / delete if number is not recognized.
Cell and at the house.

I must be too young!!!

Yes. I quit answering calls I dont recognized. I answer and immediately hang up. I tried letting them go to voice mail in case it was a call I wanted to return but never get a message. Call the number it shows and its a nonworking number. Answer and quickly hang up I seem to get fewer. They all have some strange accent if I answer. I suspect they are fishing info to steal from you.

There is a setting on my phone that I use that automatically blocks all calls from people that are not in my contacts list. It sends them directly to my voicemail. If it's legit they can leave a message and I can cal them back. Mostly never leave a message. You can set up your texts to be the same.

I don't know if it would work for someone like Paul who uses his phone for business but it works great for me. I'd imagine most cell phones would be capable of doing this.

My wife gets them all the time has for a couple of years and she's couple years away from being eligible. I have never got 1 call about insurance.iam not on Facebook so not sure if that makes a difference or not.

I am not on face book but have had the same phone number probably 20 years at least. Eventually it gets out.

Found this on google. Thanks ADC

I am not older and I get 3-5 of those a day

I have a phone setting that allows me to forward all those nuisance calls to GREENCOUNTYPETE.

I get them too...one right around 9 am then at lunch time...12 or so then one a dinner time at 5 or so. What fires me up is when you pick up no-one on the other end??
I'm like Danny now...don't answer unless I recognize the number. I let questionable calls go voice mail...waste of my time.

I started answering my phone Green county Dispatch what's your emergency ?
gets a lot of people to hang up right off.

There's a way they can make it look like the call is local too.

When I HAD a phone, I kept a sports horn handy, so when some bunghole calls me up in spite of the "NO CALL" list, I'd just give them a 1 second burst then hang up. I'm pretty sure they all use a headphone type system for hands free use, and it isn't easy to quickly get that thing off your head! ROTFLMAO

Get a lot of morons wanting to buy my house. I ripped into a woman the other day real hard, I bet she's still talking about me. I block all of them.

They send out “feeler” calls by computer. If you ever answer you go into the mass calls group. If you notice once you get one call then it’s 10 in the same couple days. If you don’t know who it is don’t answer. If they want you they’ll leave a message

Probably going to jinx myself saying so. But I don't get to many of the trash calls anymore. Was complaining to a guy I know worked at phone company. He said best thing to do if you can't block the number. Is to not answer and let it go to voice mail. The people that make the calls actually have a computer dialing multiple numbers. They talk to the first person that picks up. So if you pick up and talk to them even to say no to something. They now know they have and active number. That keeps you on the list for the next product their selling or a scam if that's their thing. I realize people running a business maybe can't sort caller ID like I do.
I have noticed we get more calls at the start of the month. Not sure why thst is. But not getting as many as before.

Mac

I get the Google ads phone calls that want to verify the business, yes I’m excepting more customers no I’m not paying for them. Most of the time it’s some town in Oregon I have never heard of, and I have been all over the state.


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