[FRIAM] Call blockers

Fri Nov 12 21:48:01 EST 2021

Thanks, Gil, and others for assistance and commiseration.  

In the end, the most effective method may be to manage my own annoyance.  

The thing that I loved about the Call Blocker (69$) was the big red button.  I might have gotten 69$ of pleasure out punching that button.

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Nick Thompson

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Gillian Densmore
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 5:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Call blockers

Nick. Know that you not alone on robodialers. A youtuber from canada called [different from Linus the Linux guy maker]. This linus runs a company called LKMG it basically does reviewes  and industry side back end work.. He has a 20 minut long rant about the problem. What set him off was how he owns something call team viewer, and is fine with the version he has. However their PR, Beta, sales marketing, everyone people  for  several months called first at 10 [first not home, then was ish but  busy with setting his companies computers up for remote work.  First it was 10, then 9, then eventually 4-5am. So he called them and read them riot act. and eventually tolled them on twitter do this again and he'll see them in court. 

Today I had 10 calls in a row, about your car insurance, at 7am. I was asleep then! 

Reported the number to Google as spam, it's whack-a-mole.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:18 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com <mailto:gil.densmore at gmail.com> > wrote:

Nick Fwiw. Me being, me. I for a bit I used this clip to stop robodiallers. because  it seemed amusing and appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyenRCJ_4Ww

I guess it worked for about 12 weeks didn't get a single spam call.

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 2:12 PM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com <mailto:gil.densmore at gmail.com> > wrote:

Sounds nobel prize worthy!  

aaaah  sounds of "fast"  internet in the 80s:

nee-nee-nee-neeh-krrrr-hisss-static- static- static- static- pop his screech  pop. 

My "fix" for robocalls is to let people I know msg me, i tend to screen calls because of them-it works for all but 1 person. lol she calls it the most zoomer thing, and please call, because she spends her life on zoom atm.

lol 😂 now, steve, how do you get calls when Tmobile or Verizon is them? or worse your cellphones battery is out? have a old school back up? or no?

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:49 AM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com> > wrote:

Spam/Robo calls have driven me (long ago) to virtually never having my ringer on or answering my phone when it does ring unless the caller is in my contact list AND I know who it is.   I can hardly remember how I coped with my landline in this regard which I let go nearly 20 years ago.

FWIW I had a co-worker/friend who left LANL about 1984 to go work for a budding RoboCall company...  She was a very clever/capable woman with a lot of humility and wit, but in spite of her self-deprecating description of the job/work, she took it anyway.   I suspect it may have been a stepping stone for her to solve the 2-body problem with her husband who perhaps was about to accept a job in a particular geographic locale where this may have been located.  Such a job would be the obvious/ideal telework job, but it *was* 1984 (Orwell references aside) and the state of the art seemed to be luggable thermal-print terminals with 1200 baud modems, so maybe not.   I can't even remember her last name, or I'd go look her up and grill her on how all that turned out for her!

On 11/11/21 10:11 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote:

TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!!

Edd Angel uses nomo robo. because I mostly use a cellphone as my number would get at least that many multiple times a day, even spam texts! that cost real money. It got so fucking bad I joke that I have PTSD from them. I'm trying https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youmail.android.vvm for my cellphone with ok results. Just ok. It's free. 

Try something that's free. Or at least has a free trial before dropping 70 bucks to block numbnut spamers and collection callers and that free cruise. Or some IRS scam from the same 20 people in india.

I don't know how good century links thing is. 

I "love" when they call at 6am. Almost funny because it's probly the same parastic leaches. The even "better" part is that it's not legal. Tmobiles built phone robo calling thing is almost useless I can tell you that much. It's so comically bad I know when I've reinstalled or updated android because it feels like seconds before I find out all the free cruise after selling a soul or 2. And unlikely to actually be free to. It's like browsing the web without an addblocker. My favorite is no matter how many creative ways I find to curse and motherfuck them and tell them to take me off the  spam list? I could be shouting at a wall for how well it works. Ie it does about jack. 

On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 9:37 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com <mailto:thompnickson2 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Ok.  I’m pissed.  4 spam calls before 9 this morning.  Century Link is offering me a call blocker for 70 bucks, <https://www.centurylink.com/accessories/>  which seems to be a bit CHEAPER than Amazon for the same object.  Do these things work, or is buying one just going to make me angrier when the calls keep coming anyway?

N

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