Request to Stop Promotional Calls

[Mashayekh]

Hello,
I hope you are doing well. I have received many promotional calls from some companies, and I would like to request that these calls no longer reach me. One of the numbers that called me is:
13192204659. Please take the necessary steps to ensure that I do not receive any more promotional calls, as they are very disturbing.

Thank you,
Tooba

[slusagm]

@Nezgar 

add the new number to your Lenny post as well

[BKNS27]

@Mashayekh 

You can download the Truecaller app to minimize spam calls.

[SKSuh]

Fortunately, I receive very few unsolicited telemarketing or spam calls — plus my iPhone is set to “silent mode” so that only callers within my contact list can reach me and “silence unknown numbers” has been enabled so everyone else just goes to voice mail 

[Nezgar]

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@slusagm wrote:

Public Mobile cannot help, but maybe a community member can

try what @Nezgar suggested here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Get-Support/Lenny-the-Telemarketers-worst-nightmare/t...

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While Lenny is useful for telemarketers that are actual live human beings to interact with, it just wastes my money (costs me 1c/min for inbound calls) with no entertainment value when they are just automated/robocalls.

For a dead-end to send junk/robocalls, I suggest forwarding them to something like the Telus dial-up modem access number in Vancouver (604-280-9000). You can do this by entering *67*6042809000# and pressing Dial or Send.

Now, any calls that come in that you manually decline will be answered by a dial-up internet modem, screeching in the callers ear, or ideally, flagging your number in a robodialer list as a modem/computer answering the line and they won't call anymore...

If it is a regular caller, adding them to your phones blocked numbers list will automate the declining of the call, invoking the same conditional call forward to the dial-up internet modems. Calls that you just don't answer will still continue to be directed to your regular voicemail.

[hairbag1]

@Mashayekh 

Public Mobile can't stop those calls. To reduce them...just don't answer any caller that you don't recognize the calling number. If it's legit, they can leave you a message and you can return their call if you chose. Once the bad guys know you answer all calls...well..you know what happens. Follow my suggestion and within a week or 2, those calls will subside...I get maybe 1 or 2 per month now.

[slusagm]

Public Mobile cannot help, but maybe a community member can

try what @Nezgar suggested here:
https://productioncommunity.publicmobile.ca/t5/Get-Support/Lenny-the-Telemarketers-worst-nightmare/t...

[hTideGnow]

HI @Mashayekh 

there is really nothing much you can do other than blocking it no your device.  But of course, the phone would still transfer to your voicemail.