Telephone Spam

I guess email spam isn’t enough, and telephone spam is becoming a nuisance too. At least with email spam we have some solutions such as spam assassin and other protocols that can be used to delete, block or identify spam email. How does one stop or even identify spam telephone calls?

I get hundreds if not a thousand spam email a month on my email software. I use Thunderbird and it’s built in spam filter that learns what is spam and what isn’t by what you teach it about your incoming mail. It’s great but it doesn’t get it all and the fact is the spammer changes their email addresses every week so it still gets by.

Telephone spam is on the rise in my house too and to tell you the truth I’ve thought about just not answering the phone unless I know the caller. I have an answering machine that will take a message if I miss a call but why the hell should I answer a call that says unknown or private number? Most likely it’s a prerecorded message telling me I’m paying too high an interest rate on my credit cards or my car is due for an oil change or I’ve won a free holiday in Florida, all I have to do is get there. (Why would I want to go to Florida?) I don’t get many phone calls so I would have to guess that 50% are spam. At least 5 spam calls a week. I had two spam calls already today and it’s only 1:15 pm.

I don’t have any other solution to telephone spam, no filters, no junk phone box and no telephone spam assassin. What do you do other than not pick up? There ought to be a law against Telephone Spam!

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