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Originally Posted by GWN7
https://www.donotcall.gov/
Register your numbers for the do not call list. When you get a call file a complaint. Eventually they do get caught.
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Unless they're out of country entirely - like India or Canada - in which case your Federal lists won't apply unless you can get them to admit to who they are, and they have a US office... Good luck with that.
If they have no US presence at all, they could tell you precisely who they are - and there would be nothing you could do.
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When I get a call I put the phone down till they hang up. They pay for their long distance by the second. The more time I waste the more it costs them.
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Really? "Long distance"? Wow. That's so 20th Century...
I pay for outgoing international calls by the minute. 2c a minute or less (often as little as $0.008 to landlines). And I'm Joe Blow. Why would someone making (presumably) lots of phone calls with an autodialer buy a plan where they paid more than me?
Heck, I make US/Canada calls for free. Anywhere in the country. Don't pay a penny for those. Even when I'm outside the US.
If they're merely verifying that the call was picked up, why even connect a human to the call? Simply examine the call logs for status afterwards. Putting the phone on the desk won't affect that one jot - it logged "ANSWER" on the outbound trunk the instant you picked it up - and likely flagged it as voice when it didn't detect you whistling V.8 bis dual frequency tones at them.
Use call screening. Add them to a contact group that plays the telco error code, tells them "this number is disconnected" and hangs up. All without ringing your phone, or even forwarding a call to it.
The ability to filter calls into groups - which you can then select HOW or IF (e.g. put through, call screened or not, straight to voicemail, tell them you don't exist) to answer - or WHEN (some groups can be set to go e.g. to voice mail in your "quiet times" - but other groups can get through anytime) - is one of the single best points of Google Voice, IMHO.