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All it has accomplished is a slight delay in the call coming through. Your devices still ring/vibrate and they can still leave messages.
I took it to the extreme of blocking all calls that aren't in my contacts which is only slightly less annoying. My devices don't ring/vibrate but if I'm looking at my devices I still get text notifications about the call and they can still a leave message, but I acknowledge choosing this extreme option should allow messages to be left because it may be a call you want to receive. Thank God I don't have a work cell because I don't know how people who do deal with this shit as they often have to take calls from unknown numbers.
At minimum if a number is identified as a potential scammer or telemarketer there should be an onscreen option to hang up/not allow a message to be left, and permanently block the number.
Just as annoying when I'm trying to cleanup the mess manually, often at least a dozen a day, I sometimes accidentally hit the callback button and even though I near instantly hit end call I'm sure it probably sends out a signal to the scammer that lets them know "hey, we've got a live one!" to be redialed and resold to other data brokers.
If the government or anybody else is in fact coming after me they are going to have to show up at my house in person because I'm not going to believe anything I receive by phone or email.
I took it to the extreme of blocking all calls that aren't in my contacts which is only slightly less annoying. My devices don't ring/vibrate but if I'm looking at my devices I still get text notifications about the call and they can still a leave message, but I acknowledge choosing this extreme option should allow messages to be left because it may be a call you want to receive. Thank God I don't have a work cell because I don't know how people who do deal with this shit as they often have to take calls from unknown numbers.
At minimum if a number is identified as a potential scammer or telemarketer there should be an onscreen option to hang up/not allow a message to be left, and permanently block the number.
Just as annoying when I'm trying to cleanup the mess manually, often at least a dozen a day, I sometimes accidentally hit the callback button and even though I near instantly hit end call I'm sure it probably sends out a signal to the scammer that lets them know "hey, we've got a live one!" to be redialed and resold to other data brokers.
If the government or anybody else is in fact coming after me they are going to have to show up at my house in person because I'm not going to believe anything I receive by phone or email.
