Halt Phone Solicitations
Halt Phone Solicitations as soon as today!
Oh, those annoying telemarketers. Did you know you can stop them in their tracks? Opt out of unsolicited phone calls by visiting the Do Not Call Registry at www.donotcall.gov. It will take just a minute to do and will save you from unwelcome interruptions.
They give you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls.
Information from their site:
“The National Do Not Call Registry was created to stop unwanted sales calls. It’s free to register your home or cell phone number. If you’ve already added your phone number to the Do Not Call Registry and are still getting a lot of unwanted calls, odds are the calls are from scammers. Read about blocking unwanted calls to find out what to do about them. If you answer one of these calls, hang up and report the call to the FTC.”
Why not halt those phone solicitations today?
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Thank you, Janet, for the nudge. I’ve been getting so many robocalls lately. It’s annoying. I’m going to re-register for the Do Not Call Registry. I had done it before, but it must be time to re-up.
An interesting update. I just went to the site you suggested to register my numbers. It turns out that once registered, you don’t need to re-up. However, you can also verify if you’ve registered in the past. I did that. It turns out I added my numbers about 20 years ago. I guess the registry works up to a point. It would have been worse if I hadn’t registered. I still get a good number of robocalls. I’m able to block numbers. Once I verify they are ‘junk’ calls, I do that.
Linda, thanks for the update. I thought you had to update your number. I guess that’s what it was the last time I looked.
Robot calls have been driving me crazy lately. I’m even getting something similar on my website’s contact page.
Thank you for the nudge. I get lots of calls that are solicitations. I thought I had registered my number and when I checked, I had – my landline which I no longer have. I had not registered my cell phone. I am doing that today.
Great! I’m glad to give you the nudge. I think many people have done the same as you: registered their landline and forgot to register their cell phone.
Great reminder! My husband has done this already. However, the cellphone was another story. I had to use a scam blocker app for that device, which has a different process for each type of service, T-Mobile, AT&T, etc…
Oh, thanks for the tip. I wish we could deal with every device the same way.
We have something similar in Canada. Unfortunately, charities and political parties are exempt, so we still get those calls, plus all the scammers who still try to get through. I block those, but have never bothered to report them. Fortunately, thanks to my phone provider or manufacturer (not sure which), many incoming calls are flagged as Suspected Spam so I easily just ignore those and block the numbers at my leisure.
It never occurred to me that it was different in Canda.
Regarding Janet B’s comment, I am pretty sure it’s the same in the US; the Do Not Call registry doesn’t protect us in the US against political calls or the ones from non-profits; you can ask the charities directly (when they call) to remove you from their call lists, but they aren’t legally bound to do so. I don’t mind the charitable calls, and if you’re registered with a party then you only get calls from candidates OF that party. (Which is a shame; I’d love to give the other side a piece of my mind!)
Very good! I need to do this! Thanks for the reminder!
You’re welcome!
I’m with Janet. I must have done the Do Not Call Registry at one time, and now all the spam are charities and political calls. I was so relieved when the election was over!
Where I mostly have trouble now is my cell phone. I think I need to go through this exercise for that number. Thanks for letting me know that it works for cell phones too!
I was lucky. I live in a state that was not going to flip, so I had very few calls and texts during the last election cycle.
I registered both my landline and my cell phone with the DNC registry years ago, and revisit every so often to make sure it “sticks.” I also report all numbers that DO spam me to the reporting arm of the registry, but because so many of the bad guys spoof the phone number of a “good guy” or call from a number registered outside of the US and then use VOIP, it’s hard to get any traction. My phone iPhone through T-Mobile) flags all incoming spam as spam, so I don’t answer it, but the landline still gets way too much attention.
Thanks for the reminder to move myself to the top of the list again!
Good to know. Thanks Julie.