Getting TONS of spam calls from unknown numbers
Starting since about the second week of October, I've been getting LOTS of calls from unknown (out of state, 800, restricted, even one from a +20 international number) numbers, some of them calling 5 or more times a day. I have not answered any of them - most come in while I'm at work and I'm just angry and being disturbed and reject them immediately and add them to the blacklist. Maybe it's poor of me that I can't say what any of them are calling about... but given the numbers they're coming from and the lack of voicemail, it's safe to assume they're calls I do not want.
If it were just one or two numbers I'd ask them not to call back, but there's a new one almost every day. My blacklist has close to 20 numbers on it now. I thought they might stop after the elections but they haven't. Actually I got one today that finally DID leave voicemail, knowing my name and claiming they were responding to an information request from MIT. I've never been in contact with MIT in any way.
To the best of my knowledge I haven't given my number out to any new entity in recent months. I am on the Do Not Call list. I've had the number for the better part of the decade and it's normally extremely quiet except for calls from friends/family.
I'm seriously considering just abandoning my number, getting a new one and then using a Google Voice number to give out to companies that require that information and putting the GV number on Do Not Disturb mode forever. Edit: wanted to clarify that I'm reluctant to simply block all non-address book numbers on my phone as I have at least one person who calls from a Blocked number, and I don't want to be too reliant on an iOS jailbreak app just to have some peace.
TL;DR: Getting shit-ton of unwanted calls on cell, frustrated.
Has anyone else experienced or dealt with anything like this?
Here are some pics... it's been a little quieter this week than last.
Posted Nov 3, 2010, 8:37 PM UTC · edited