 | annoyed 2014-05-29 18:24:16 Unknown |
Unabated harassment allowed by phone co's
There is a way to sign up for a FREE service called nomorobo to stop these annoying robocalls. My problem is that my landline carrier, AT&T, currently doesn't support Nomorobo because they need to add the Simultaneous Ringing rejection capabilities to their LANDLINE service. I called AT&T months ago, as the Nomorobo.com page suggested, to request they help stop spam calls with this, but after wasting my time jumping through all of AT&T's automated hoops to reach a real person to speak with, I found out they don't seem to care and have no solutions of their own that worked (yes, I even paid extra for one of their products that was supped to help, of course... it didn't!) I suspect phone companies profit from these calls, as others have suggested, so they have no incentive to stop them, and just let us, the receivers of these harassing calls, suffer - and in some unfortunate cases - get scammed.
SO, I decided to use AT&T's call forwarding service to make AT&T understand the problem a little better.
After I get a spam call, I enter it into my "call forwarding list" (*63). The number I have dialed in for the call forwarding is: AT&T (Traditional Landline) Customer Service 1-800-288-2020 (I had to use the number "one" in my entry). This way AT&T, who refuses to help stop this problem, will get the next spam call from this number (if it's repeated) instead of me.
I'm hoping if they start to get the same number of spam calls I get - they'll decide it's worth stopping the problem.