Verizon has failed to stop many call violations of the Do Not Call laws, particularly allowing callers to fake their ANI identification. Except for legitimate reasons, such as law enforcement, domestic violence, or other exceptions, no call should be completed that does not match the actual origin. That aside, we who continue to be awakened from sleep, dinners interrupted, and run to the phone only to find the call is another pan handler violating the law, we have to take action into our own hands. Why is it then, that Verizon has a limit of only 10 numbers that can be blocked? And why can we not block entire area codes and exchanges so a boiler room cannot keep changing numbers with the same area code?
Please, Verizon, give us more options to manage our own calls until the day you have the smart technology in place to limit illegal calls.
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Yeah. About time. Although I also use nomorobo .
I wasn't aware of this but that's good to know. I also use nomorobo.
hmmmmm, i think that even though there are 100 slots available to enter numbers to block incoming calls from (when entered by computer) , maybe only the first 10 entered actually get blocked......got a call from a blocked number after it was added to our list from previous day
Does anybody know why telephone numbers that I added to the block list last week are not being blocked. ? I get the multiple calls daily on Massachuseets electric rates scam from a "blocked" number.
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@ramsey76 wrote:Does anybody know why telephone numbers that I added to the block list last week are not being blocked. ? ...
Several ways they could be bypassing the check. One simple one is to identify a different phone number as the callerid name. Of course often both numbesr are phony.
i've read in these forums that the incoming call block won't stop calls from outside your calling area, but haven't been able to confirm that with Verizon. anyone else read that on an official verizon info page? if that is true for FiOS digital voice, then why doesn't the interface throw up an error when i add an out-of-area number to the block list?
@the_madscanner wrote:i've read in these forums that the incoming call block won't stop calls from outside your calling area, but haven't been able to confirm that with Verizon. anyone else read that on an official verizon info page? if that is true for FiOS digital voice, then why doesn't the interface throw up an error when i add an out-of-area number to the block list?
Its not completely true, but they are covering themselves since some area don't pass the information needed to block them (for legitimate callers). Of course the worse robocallers bypass all protection anyway.
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