Telemarketers...

[Charmonium]

guys, http://www.nomorobo.com

I'm amazed it's free, it has cut out 97.5% of telemarketers for me. I don't even look at the phone for the number unless it gets past the 1st ring which is how it works.

Unless you're getting calls on your cellphone - in which case, that blows regardless.

Zero catch from what I've experienced the last 6+ months. Zero. It's quite effective if your landline service qualifies (like FIOS). I'd be eating dinner and the phone rings only once. Their ass gets intercepted and I'm even more satisfied than if the call never came.

It uses a blacklist so legit calls like your kids school or doctor offices or your mechanic don't get blocked. I've had no issues with it and have also reported online the handful that have gotten through.

Another vote for nomorobo. I get a few calls per day and it catches almost all of them. For the ones it doesn't, I log into the site and add that number to their database.

Don't get discouraged if your provider isn't in the list. Mine wasn't so I chose one that was. Most of the "work" is setting up your phone to ring in multiple places. As long as your line has that feature, you can use it.

 

[lothar]

Zero catch from what I've experienced the last 6+ months. Zero. It's quite effective if your landline service qualifies (like FIOS). I'd be eating dinner and the phone rings only once. Their ass gets intercepted and I'm even more satisfied than if the call never came.

It uses a blacklist so legit calls like your kids school or doctor offices or your mechanic don't get blocked. I've had no issues with it and have also reported online the handful that have gotten through.

How do they get money to make their product, maintain their servers and blacklists? How do they fund their operations?
I can't imagine the $25,000 award they won in the Federal Trade Commission's Robocall Challenge in April 2013 is enough to fund their operations.
How do they plan to earn revenue to sustain their operations?

I've looked up this company to see if I can see any lead about investors, venture capitalists, etc...None. Nada. Interesting...

 

[Naer]

My dad disliked telemarketers with a passion

 

[sourceninja]

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[lothar]

I put my phone into priority mode and have it set to only ring if the same number calls me twice in a row. I've told my family to call me twice in a row during a emergency. I get no phone calls now after 11pm until 7:30am.

Call twice within a span of how many minutes or hours? or it doesn't matter the time span as long as they are the last call that you received?

In other words...
If they call at 11:15pm and again at 7:00am without you receiving any other calls, what happens?
If they call at 11:15pm and again at 7:00am, but you also received another call at 4:00am in between their 1st and 2nd call, what happens?

I know this is a Lollipop feature, but I never used or experimented with it.

 

[Charmonium]

I put my phone into priority mode and have it set to only ring if the same number calls me twice in a row. I've told my family to call me twice in a row during a emergency. I get no phone calls now after 11pm until 7:30am.

I think some telemarketers are already on to this feature since periodically I get the same caller inside of a minute or two. Nomorobo intercepts the first call and hangs up. Then they call back immediately and it hangs up on them again.

BTW, I use a VOIP service for my "land line" but it looks and tastes like a land line.