[PLUG-TALK] Chronic meaningless telephone calls

[Tom]

If it would bother me as it does you, I would try to pick up the phone,
try to get find out who is calling me, try to talk to a human politely
asking them to stop and report all their calls together with phone
numbers/times of occurrences to FCC.
I doubt that it is Google, unless they want something practical from yo
u. I use Google as phone provider and they are extremely good at
stopping phone spam/sc?m.
Often this helps.
- Tomas
On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 16:05 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    Every day one or two telephone calls come to my office land line,
> each
> from a different area code and exchange. All display 'Out of Area' or
> something similar on the called ID.
> 
>    I let them go to voice mail because most robo-telemarketing calls
> don't
> leave any message. These daily (or twice daily) calls leave a message
> something like, "... press 7 to leave verification." Of course the
> originating computer does not know there's no human on the line so it
> starts
> its message while the outbound message is playing. It's an annoying
> waste of
> my time to dial into the voice mail account to delete the nonsense
> there.
> 
>    A vague recollection from something I read is this originates from
> our
> friends at Google. Perhaps. I've no idea who it is or what sort of
> verification I'm supposed to leave. Is there a way for me to find out
> who
> keeps spamming me like this and have it rejected? I cannot give
> Frontier a
> number to block since each call comes from a different part of the
> country
> (or elsewhere while spoofing the number.)
> 
> Rich
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