Joined Feb 2009
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These calls are driving me nuts!!! 2-3 times a day I get a call from some tax service wanting to help me pay off what I owe. I owe nothing.
Today at
12:27 PM
Sure you can click on '5' to get off their list as they claim, but that does no good.
You can block that number on your phone but that does no good because they use different phone numbers each time so I'm not able to block them and I'm doomed to having them bother me 2-3 times a day for as long as I have this phone number and I'm not giving up my phone number.
Is there anything at all I can do? The Do Not Call List is useless. I again put myself on it anyhow but it doesn't do anything. I can't block or click '5; to get myself off their list.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Would calling the police do anything?
How are these scam companies getting my phone number? Anyone know if I can get my phone number completely off the internet. I didn't think cell phone numbers were listed.
You can block that number on your phone but that does no good because they use different phone numbers each time so I'm not able to block them and I'm doomed to having them bother me 2-3 times a day for as long as I have this phone number and I'm not giving up my phone number.
Is there anything at all I can do? The Do Not Call List is useless. I again put myself on it anyhow but it doesn't do anything. I can't block or click '5; to get myself off their list.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Would calling the police do anything?
How are these scam companies getting my phone number? Anyone know if I can get my phone number completely off the internet. I didn't think cell phone numbers were listed.
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These scammers could either be buying a list a numbers that includes yours or could be just calling thousands of sequential phone numbers.
Every time you give a company your contact info, whether it's your bank, a store loyalty, program, a website where you bought something, or a random sweepstakes, more likely than not they're selling info about you to a data broker or advertising company. Who then bundles and combines it with more info about you and sells it to someone else. Then they get hacked and that data set gets bought by scammers and sleazier data brokers.
You can remove yourself from some people search / data broker sites, but it takes a fair amount of effort. There are services that claim to do it for you, some legit, some owned by the same sleazy data brokers. Ultimately, putting in some effort to date yourself from these people search sites often does reduce the volume of these calls.