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    Anyone else been getting a lot of spam calls lately? I've had three today and it's not even noon yet. Every number is different but they all have the same first three digits as my own number.

    The really annoying part is that about 50% of the time they leave a voicemail with about 10 seconds of nothing.

    Any suggestions? My (Samsung) phone isn't flagging them as spam. I'm registered on as many Do Not Call lists as I can find, but it hasn't really helped.
    dv/dt

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    Turn on call control or use call screen?
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    Answer and immediately hang up to prevent the "shwingShaw Shu sha..." voicemails.

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    I’ve turned off unknown callers on my iPhone. I just see them on my recent call list and any voicemails I can read and delete with one touch. This is the easiest for me to handle these same calls.

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    Samsung = Android.
    Do you not have call screen? How old is the phone?
    I hit screen call, then forget to look back that they hung up.
    I let Google deal with it, considering they get my info for free, it's the least they can do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExtraSlow View Post
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    Turn on call control or use call screen?
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    if you are with TELUS, use call control. Since I turned it on, I haven't had a single spam call in over a year now.
    Boosted life tip #329
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    Quote Originally Posted by spikerS View Post
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    if you are with TELUS, use call control. Since I turned it on, I haven't had a single spam call in over a year now.
    What's your phone number?
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    I got a new spam text today... some girl texting asking 'Duncan' if he wanted to meet up again tonight as she had fun last time, along with a partial nude. Once I told her she had the wrong number it was followed up with asking me to join some web cam site to chat with her. Creative... but no thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spikerS View Post
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    if you are with TELUS, use call control. Since I turned it on, I haven't had a single spam call in over a year now.
    Awesome, yes I am with Telus. I'll look into that, thanks!
    dv/dt

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    Call control was already suggested, so I think that's your ticket.

    I receive spam/fraud calls from time to time, but it's gotten much worse over the past year or so. I literally had 11 in one day - all spewing the same message about an arrest warrant issued by border services. About a week ago I got a similarly threatening messages from CRA saying they'll arrest me too - probably about 7 or so in one day, and 4 the next.

    They're relentless, if nothing else.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R-Audi View Post
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    I got a new spam text today... some girl texting asking 'Duncan' if he wanted to meet up again tonight as she had fun last time, along with a partial nude. Once I told her she had the wrong number it was followed up with asking me to join some web cam site to chat with her. Creative... but no thanks.
    My wife gets these from time to time. I am never lucky enough to get partial nudes sent to me, spam or otherwise.
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    ...Last thing I want is someone reading my posts and losing their cock over it...
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    Meh, they all look like Jackie Chan to me
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    I'm generally cute.

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    I get a ton of these but it's on a landline so no call control. Just the other day 3 calls within 1hr from the same number about fraudulent ebay purchases. Of course I can ignore these but we get a lot of calls and many times we don't recognize the number but the call is legit. And I love the callbacks from some people saying you called them because of number spoofing that just happens to be yours and you try to explain to them what number spoofing is and using local prefixes but they don't understand and get mad and tell you to stop calling them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by topmade View Post
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    I get a ton of these but it's on a landline so no call control. Just the other day 3 calls within 1hr from the same number about fraudulent ebay purchases. Of course I can ignore these but we get a lot of calls and many times we don't recognize the number but the call is legit. And I love the callbacks from some people saying you called them because of number spoofing that just happens to be yours and you try to explain to them what number spoofing is and using local prefixes but they don't understand and get mad and tell you to stop calling them.
    Call control is also available on TELUS landlines
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    Originally posted by Mibz
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    Quote Originally Posted by R-Audi View Post
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    I got a new spam text today... some girl texting asking 'Duncan' if he wanted to meet up again tonight as she had fun last time, along with a partial nude. Once I told her she had the wrong number it was followed up with asking me to join some web cam site to chat with her. Creative... but no thanks.
    Check your phone bill and you probably got charged $0.40 per text back. I got the same thing and messed with them and thankfully stopped after the 5th text and low and behold my phone bill shows each text billed at $0.40 each.
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    and I did not have the only say in the matter (most people just want it done ASAP and don't care about quality).
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    If anything we made a better decision because we had a consensus and were all on the same page.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocket1k78 View Post
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    Check your phone bill and you probably got charged $0.40 per text back. I got the same thing and messed with them and thankfully stopped after the 5th text and low and behold my phone bill shows each text billed at $0.40 each.
    Oh shit. I think it was long distance... ah well.

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    Since you made the investment, might as well share that nude with everyone.
    Originally posted by SEANBANERJEE
    I have gone above and beyond what I should rightfully have to do to protect my good name

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    Quote Originally Posted by spikerS View Post
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    Call control is also available on TELUS landlines
    Works great on my landline but when I tried to activate it for mobile I kept getting an error.

    I should get around to getting that fixed since the calls have picked up again in the last two week!


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    Since you made the investment, might as well share that nude with everyone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocket1k78 View Post
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    Check your phone bill and you probably got charged $0.40 per text back. I got the same thing and messed with them and thankfully stopped after the 5th text and low and behold my phone bill shows each text billed at $0.40 each.
    This is actually a brilliant scam that most would fall for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spikerS View Post
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    Call control is also available on TELUS landlines
    Nice, just turned it on. Thanks!

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