Anyone notice a reduction in Robocalls?

[Thunderbeast]

Today is the deadline for phone companies to implement technology to prevent "spoofing" on calls. Caller ID will be verified from it's source using new technologies and protocols.

I am pretty sure that engineers from Moscow to Mumbai have already figured out how to defeat it....

[zipplewrath]

1. No

3 this morning alone.

[uponit7771]

2. No this was supposed to happen on the Trump admin somehow it was nixed

[QED]

3. Oh no! How will I know that my car warranty is about to expire?

Or that investors want to buy my home for cash????

[csziggy]

9. For some reason even though my truck warranty expired years ago

They won't talk to me about a warranty on my 1999 GMC Suburban. They just hang up on me when I ask.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. or that I have won something from Hilton

or that I can find help with my student loans (which I never had)

Interestingly, the Indian/Pakistani guys who call you about your Microsoft Windows being at risk seem to have gone underground.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

4. No

I'm actually getting more than I have in the past.

[MANative]

5. Nope - had at least a half dozen today. NT

[crazylikafox]

6. Maybe that's why all my robocalls just started coming from international numbers

[Sanity Claws]

7. No

I got at least two this week about my car warranty expiring. I don't even own a car!

[NotASurfer]

8. I'm getting text messages from the TX Repub party for input on candidates

And no doubt if I clicked through on the URL in those texts, I'd get some mighty fine push-polling and multiple solicitations for funds to build the wall, suppress urban voting, give the police carte blanche to declare open season on scary brown people, and ensure chain of custody was documented for all women in the state so the state knew which man was legally allowed to make decisions on their behalf.

I don't live in TX, no idea why they think I'm Repub. those texts can stop any time.

Maybe the robocalls trying to get me to helpfully call back to correct the "misperception" that I'm a contractor looking for people who are looking for somebody to do some pressure-washing will stop.

[Jim__]

10. I did get a "Scratch & match" in my mailbox today.

And, surprise, surprise, the numbers matched.

So, I googled "Scratch & match" and found I didn't really win $1,000,000.

[NurseJackie]

11. We don't notice it on our "landline" (voip) home phone...

... because we have Ooma and it's configured to ONLY allow known callers to ring through. All others go to voicemail and most robocallers never bother to leave voicemail.

[msfiddlestix]

12. It has for me.

I had attributed to a very determined intention on my part to manually block each of these calls, recently. So I'm not sure why.

[Initech]

13. Reduction??? I'm getting more robocalls than ever!

It seriously is making me want to go Office Space on my land line!

[hedda_foil]

14. Nope. This week I've had more than usual.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. I have been consistently blocking the numbers and it is working

my phone may ring but "suspected spam" will pop up on the screen and the second ring doesn't happen.

[maxsolomon]

15. No. We've been getting more.

3-4/day, on our land line & our mobile lines.

The Warranty Dept., the IRS, and apparently I'm wanted by the Cops.

[634-5789]

16. I still apparently need a car warranty for a 2020 Ford....

...got 2 spammers today.

[MrsCoffee]

18. No, quite the opposite.

Last two weeks it has really ramped up.

[Scrivener7]

20. Actually, I do now that you mention it.

[captain queeg]

21. There's always suspicious activity on my Amazon account.

Since I don’t have an account there, those are easy to get rid of.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Dunno about Robocalls, but Amazon called today ...

... Apparently I ordered a new iPhone and it will cost $900 or so. I just needed to press "1" to accept the order, or "2" to talk to customer service.

There's another button, one that hangs up the phone.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. About the same. 2-3 in one day, a couple days silent, then 2-3 more.

I DID get a congratulatory email telling me that PayPal approved my recent purchase of $518 worth of Bitcoin, but if I think there's some mistake I can just click here to straighten it out. At least it wasn't ye-gods-yet-still-another iPhone from Amazon.

[FakeNoose]

24. Yes I've noticed

I have been diligently blocking every robo-dialed call into my landline for the last 3 or 4 years. Verizon allows me 300 blocked numbers and I'm using most of them.

Even with the blocked numbers I still get tons of spam calls, because the spammers know how to fool the software and grab real numbers from the local calling area. People are afraid to block those numbers because they think maybe it's their neighbors or something. It's not neighbors, it's spoofing spamming robo-dialers. To hell with all of them. I hope they're out of business now, as they should be.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Comcast Engaged Verification Almost 2 Months Ago

And no, we haven't noticed a reduction in robocalls.
The only difference is those numbers don't have (v) after them.

[iemanja]

26. Whatever will I do about my expired car warranty?

I really hope it works.

[pstokely]

27. I didn't get any last year or the 2018 midterms

I got a bunch from both parties in 2016

[Jim G.]

28. Hi, I'm Vanessa With Dealer Services...

We've been trying to reach you regarding your warranty...

[MontanaMama]

29. I won a free medical device three times today!

Amy from “medical services” called to tell me so. I won the same medical device three times yesterday too. Amy said to press 1 to accept the device…but when I press 1 I get a recording telling the number I called is not in service. First of al, I didn’t call anyone. I guess I don’t get the point of what they’re trying to accomplish.

[multigraincracker]

30. Now it's spam text.

Got one about my unemployment account. Colorado number about my Ohio account and I live in Michigan. Did not click on it. Over 30 years ago was the last time I used UE.