{"id":85,"date":"2014-06-26T17:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2014-06-26T17:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T17:44:43","slug":"how-can-i-stop-telemarketers-from-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/2014\/06\/26\/how-can-i-stop-telemarketers-from-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Telemarketer Phone Calls Are A Bother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Question: How can I stop telemarketers from calling my cell phone?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iPhone-Telemarketer-Contact-List.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-129\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/iPhone-Telemarketer-Contact-List.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone Telemarketer Contact List\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a>Answer: Our business phone number is on the &#8220;Do Not Call Registry,&#8221; but there are thousands of telemarketers from all over the world and the Do Not Call Registry simply can&#8217;t stop them all from calling.\u00a0 Especially the ones located outside of the United States.\u00a0 Most service providers offer call blocking if you pay an extra fee each month, but I&#8217;ve devised my own method for deterring unwanted sales calls.\u00a0 After you hang-up from a telemarketer call, add their phone number to your contacts list.\u00a0 In the contact name area just type in something like, recorded sales call, selling insurance, asked for the business owner, selling advertisements, etc&#8230; Then give all of these calls the same special ring tone.\u00a0 Even if you tell these people not to call you back or you hang-up on them, they almost always call you back anyway.\u00a0 This way, you&#8217;ll at least only have to talk to them once.\u00a0 When your phone rings with the special ringtone you&#8217;ve given the telemarketers, you know not to answer it.\u00a0 Eventually, they get tired of not getting a person to bother and they quit calling your number.\u00a0 I have collected hundreds of phone numbers this way and it&#8217;s amazing how often the telemarketer ring tone goes off on my phone.\u00a0 This method works and it doesn&#8217;t add any extra costs to your monthly phone bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How can I stop telemarketers from calling my cell phone? Answer: Our business phone number is on the &#8220;Do Not Call Registry,&#8221; but there are thousands of telemarketers from all over the world and the Do Not Call Registry simply can&#8217;t stop them all from calling.\u00a0 Especially the ones located outside of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerfixx.biz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}