Annoying Phone Calls on My Cell

J.,
Two things that have worked for me for both my cell and home numbers.

First, list your number on the National Do Not Call list.

Second, take the couple of minutes to listen through the message - they should give you an option (usually 2 or 9) to get off their list. Since I started listening to all the calls and pushing the opt-out response, my 'junk' calls have gone down by about 60%.

Good luck - J.

I am receiving these type calls as well but on our home phone. The calls I am receiving are coming from an area code in Canada. Unfortunately their "Do Not Call List" is only for Canadian residents and not U.S residents.
Have you checked with your cell phone company if they can do anything? If nothing else credit you back some of the minutes. I know it is extremely frustrating, especially when the consumer can't do anything about it.

I've put my cell number on the donotcall.org site and haven't received as many of them. I also wait until the end and push the number to be removed. Some of them you have to pick to speak to someone and then it will give you the option to be removed (we get a lot of these at work). The big problem is, if you wait too long for the remove prompt you can't choose the original option to speak with someone (if it is the one where you have to press the speak to one).

OMG, I get this at work and my cell! I hate it, it also says hit 3 to be removed from list but then just hangs up and doesn't remove you! I hate it ARRRGGGGG!

I registered all our numbers at http://www.donotcall.gov. I've never gotten another call (other than charities, etc that are approved... like the Fraternal Order of Police).

I don't know if this works but the other day a friend and I were talking about this and she said to stay on the line and tell them you have a bike. She said it worked for her and I think it is kind of funny. Good luck

Call the number back and complain and have them remove you from the list. This was happening to my husband and since he called them back, the calls have stopped.

Not sure how to block the call but you should ask your cell company. I do know that that is a scam.

Its an epidemic - everyone I know gets them, some of them 5-10 times a day!

If you let the "message" play out, there will often be an option at the end to be taken off the calling list - unfortunately, you actually have to answer the darn call and listen to it to completion in order to access that take me off the list.

Try www.donotcall.gov - I registered all my numbers on it, and...knock on wood... I never get calls on my cell phone and very few at home. Most of what I get at home is political which, unfortunatly is exempt from the list.
Hope this helps.

Put your number on the do not call list. Also, if you wait through the message, there is a prompt that you can press to be taken off their list. I did this, thinking I had nothing to loose. The calls stopped!

Dear J.,You should register your phone number at the National Do Not Call Registry (go online). I did that and I'm so glad now cause I don't receive those calls any more from any of those phones. It's free to register. Go for it!

I have no idea! But I get those too!! I'll keep watch on your posting to see if anyone knows :>

hi, i get that to on my landline tho, but have had unrecognizable calls that dont say anything on my cell if i answer-guess we just shouldnt answer-do they leave a message tho? I have called some back if they have a number and asked to be removed, but sometimes u have to worry about charges,etc for that too! I think there is a # to call about junkmail and phonecalls tho...maybe someone will suggest that!

press the button to talk to person. when they come on ask them to remove them from the list. then 2nd call ask to talk to the supervisor. it took 6 times of actually talking to a person for them to stop calling my work cell phone.

This story was just on the Today show last week Matt Laurer has the same problem, he said he has waited till the end & there is no one to talk with.

I have the same problem.

If you find out......let me know!

I get that one five times a day.

We have the same calls on our home phone. The "do not call" list doesn't work & asking to be removed doesn't work. I've had really rude responses when I've asked. The bottom line is that these companies are scam operations and don't abide by the rules like legit businesses do. Sometimes I press "1" to talk to someone and then stick the phone next to a blaring radio...I plan on getting a really loud whistle to use on 'em. :o) You don't want to waste cell minutes, though, so I'd just not pick up the phone if it's a number you don't recognize.

I hate those! I get them all the time. Let me know if someone has a solution!!

Edit: I was just reading all the other responses, and I have tried pressing the opt out button, many times, and still get the calls all the time. I say I'm gonna sue, they still call,I've talked to people, they still call....I'm on the donotcall list and I still get called, so if someone has a solution that actually works, plz let me know as every time they call I get more and more likely to throw my phone in a lake!

Hi J.,
I just wanted to warn you-- the Do Not Call Registry is not going to solve your problem-- I have both my cell and home phones registered and still get this call from time to time (not daily, thank goodness!) we may all have to suffer till the call Prsident Obama by random chance, and then something will be done! 8-)