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How to Block Phone Calls

Learning to block incoming phone calls to your home phone or even cell phone can give you piece of mind when trying to avoid telemarketers, bill collectors, pranksters or even stalkers. There are several methods to block phone calls and some work better than others.

Blocking Landline Telephone Calls:

The first thing to do is utilize caller ID. For those who don’t know, caller ID is a device that either attaches to your phone or is integrated into your phone that identifies incoming phone calls. Your caller ID mechanism can alert you to the incoming phone number, the number and name of the caller and unfortunately sometimes no information at all. This will depend on the type of phone and amount of privacy the inbound caller is using.

The idea is to gather as much information about the caller and decide whether or not to pick up the phone. If you are able to use caller ID to determine you are receiving calls from telemarketers, it is a good idea to add you number to the National Do Not Call List.

There is only one National Do Not Call List and you are welcome to add your landline phone or cell phone to the data base. This is the single best way to rid yourself of telemarketers. You may visit The National Do Not Call List or call (888) 382-1222 and listen to the instructions. It is important to note that it takes 31 days after a number is added to the list before telemarketers must officially cease making calls.

Another method of blocking inbound calls is the use of an inbound call blocking device. These are screening tools that allow you to hand out codes to those you would like to be able to get through your blocking defenses and the callers simply dial in the code and the call is placed. These tools are readily available online but seem to be more trouble than they are worth because your contacts are likely to misplace or forget codes.

Local telephone companies all have some sort of pay service allowing customers to block certain incoming calls and they all come along with pros and cons. They do work but can turn out to be expensive and hard to manage for someone who is just trying avoid sales calls but may have use for incoming calls from unknown numbers. Most telemarketers who make their living by getting a target on the phone will have methods for bypassing caller ID and call blocking services. However, if you do answer a call from a telemarketer you can always ask them to remove your number from their list and they will probably not bother you again. It is usually other more malicious callers which end up becoming  the type of nuisance causing someone to really try and block a phone number.

Blocking Calls to a Cell Phone

With cell phones we have a trusty little call log that allows us to see the list of callers who call into our phones. However, most of the sales calls, pranksters, bill collectors and stalkers will call from unlisted numbers and their numbers will not appear to us so easily.

The first thing you need to do if you are getting harassed is save any voicemail or text message that may be sent. These can be used as evidence in a police report if you are indeed being criminally harassed.

Much like with a lindline call, if you do answer a cell call from a telemarketer, remind them they are calling a cell phone and they cannot do this without consent from you or an actual request from you to their company asking for a sales call. They should immediately remove your number.

Cell phones do happen to work differently from other phones and there are currently no good methods for actually blocking calls. The best thing you can do is run a reverse look up or a search by phone number to trace a call. Identifying the owner of a cell phone number and calling them directly or in some cases turning their identity over to the authorities is the best way to stop threatening phone calls.

But, free reverse look up services only yield basic information because cell phone directories do not exist and cell phone numbers are not published in the white pages. The information on cell phone owners is readily available but a small fee is required to access the databases containing that information.

If you are being harassed or threatened and cannot block a phone number because it is coming from a cell phone, a reverse look up is the best way to trace a cell number and rid yourself of that pesky caller.

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Can Telemarketers Call My Cell Phone

Telemarketers calling cell phones has been a hot topic of late. The debate stems from some nasty rumors circulating on the internet and I’m the first to admit I fell for them.

Telemarketers cannot legally call a cell phone number the way they can a regular phone listing. Cell phone carriers have always toyed with the idea of creating a 411 directory for cell phones but have yet to do so. And, this idea has sparked a nasty little virus online.

A scam email is circulated saying that in a certain number of days the cell phone 411 will go live and the only way to avoid being called by telemarketers is to sign up for a new and separate national do not call list. Well, this list does not exist and the form people have been filling in to register for the fake list asks for information that could be used to access private accounts.

Human beings tend to use the same security questions for bank accounts, email accounts and other very personal accounts that might prove very fruitful for scammers. When signing up for the fake list the form calls for the registrant to choose a security question and verify their cell phone number. Chances are the most of the victims will use the same security question as they do for their other accounts and they will have given a very hard to find cell phone number as well.

Even though real telemarketers are not supposed to call a cell phone number, you may be surprised to find out that non-profit organizations are permitted to call cell phones. Telephone survey companies and any business you have called from a cell number or done actual business with during an 18 month period of time is legally allowed to call that cell number. Also, any complaint registered by a cell phone owner against an unsolicited caller has 31 days to take full effect.

Our cell phone protection is well intended but tends to fall short because it becomes extremely difficult for cell phone users to identify the owners of the phones calling us. Since cell phone numbers are not listed in a 411 directory, getting someone to stop harassing calls without running a trace on that number through a reverse look up service.

It’s kind of a catch 22 if you ask me but when you are trying to identify a stalker, ducking a bill collector or wondering who may be calling your spouse the small price to access unlimited call traces is worth it.

You may not find a telemarketer on the other end of the call!

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