Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls

Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by rudedogg on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:10PM (#16869025)

> I don't even answer my phone anymore unless I know who's calling.

I've had to do the same. I sometimes get three calls and voicemails per day about business loans. I'm pretty sure they got my number by scraping the LLC filings for my state :\.

I wish I would of used a Google Voice number rather than my cell.

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Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by bonestamp2 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:47PM (#16869351)

One business that I own has "Lab" in its name. It gets sales calls for lab equipment from Asia at least once/week. It's a data lab, not a chemistry lab... these sales reps haven't done 1 second of research before calling. I assume they're scraping the names from somewhere too, or someone is scraping it and selling them a list.

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Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by abawany on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:15PM (#16871257)

One approach is to get a new cell number and port your existing cell number to Google Voice (GV). You can then forward calls from the latter to the former, using GV blocking and spam filtering to kill off the noise.

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Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by Skunkleton on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @05:23PM (#16871324)

I tried this once. Now I have debt collectors after me because of my numbers previous owner.

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Re:Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls by xapata on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @06:47PM (#16871933)

If you have GVoice, you can change your forwarding number easily.

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