Computer Generated Calls! What do you do?

Once you reject a number, when they call again, does your phone ring?

I can't see who is calling. I just leave a voice mail that I will delete all calls from solicitors. The only legitimate calls I do receive are either amber alerts from the police or the garbage company calling regarding delayed service. Even the politicians don't leave messages. I do get a solicitor leaving message one call out of 50. My friends know to call me on my cell. I only keep the land line for emergency purposes but I am considering removing it.

The machine can be set up a few different ways. One way is to hook it up in-line between the house phone and the wall outlet.  In such a config, you do not hear the ring on black listed calls.  If the machine is set up in parallel with the phone, the phone will ring once.  If the call is a reject call, that will be the end of it.  If it's a new call not on the list, there will be one ring, then the machine picks up the call and plays one of several prerecorded messages you can select from.  (There version 3 allow you to record your own message)  The message I selected is an American male voice that is quite terse and tells the caller in no uncertain terms to hang up if they are a telemarketer.  Otherwise, press 0.  If the caller presses 0, (robo calls can't do that) then the call will ring on through to your phone.  If the caller doesn't press 0, it goes to the reject list or to a hold status for you to determine if it should be on the reject or accept list. 

It's got lots of options on how you want to set it up.  Instructions are not good.  However, they have an 800 number you can call with questions.  I sure did.  When I called, I got a real live tech every time.  He would step me through how to so stuff, then he'd actually call me back to test it.  Very friendly and easy to understand when discussing, but I imagine would be hard to write all out in a manual. 

The good thing is that you can play with it for a couple hours, you're very likely to work out what does what.

Thanks. I also keep the landline to provide a number for anyone I do business with online, I don't want to share my cell with business interests...but...AT&T rates have been climbing steadily to $33+ currently. That's a big chunk of change, especially when the phone is rarely used by me nowadays.

The blocking technology is pretty good for phone calls.

Now if they would come up with a way to stop the spam faxes that come through. Timeshare presentations and cruises mostly.

Nomorobo.co.   It's free and it works great. 

Apparently just for cell and VoIP - so us folks out in remote areas can't use it.

Unfortunately, Nomorobo is not available on traditional analog copper landlines at this time.

I keep them on the phone as long as possible. Eventually you get a live person. I mess with them asking dumb questions until they get frustrated and hang up on me.