How many solicitation/wrong number calls do you get on your Cell Phone?

[Baitball Blogger]

It's bizarre. I usually offer my landline number when I have to provide information to a business, but I keep my cell phone number to myself. Yet, I noticed that I started to get one call on my cell phone each time I was out on an errand. And now they seem to come in when I'm at home.

Is this fishing?

[True Dough]

1. Do you download a lot of apps?

Even if you don't maybe some of your friends and relatives do. When you read the terms and conditions on some of those apps, they tell you that they will access your phone number as well as the phone numbers of everyone in your personal contacts. So their reach is pretty far. Next thing you know, random solicitation phone calls from god-knows-who.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I have downloaded a couple in the last few months.

Maybe that's it.

[Generic Brad]

2. Approximately two a day

I google the number and then block the caller.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Unfortunately, it's not the same number.

Twice people have left personal messages. So sad. There was a fracture in the relationship and the person was pleading for the other person to call. If I had been younger I would have called back to tell them they had the wrong number. But I am older now and I have seen a great many things.

[rurallib]

27. same here - we block but they spoof

so we simply no longer answer if we don't recognize the number.
If they really want us they will leave a message.

[Fla Dem]

3. 3-4 per day. Odd thing is they seem to come in bunches. nt

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I figure that if it's someone that is not on my address list that they will leave a msg.

I'm on that no solicitation list, but it doesn't seem to work.

If it's easy to turn them in, I just had a perfect one come in that left a message.

[SCantiGOP]

26. That's the only answer

If their name doesn't come up don't answer. If it is someone actually trying to reach you they will leave a message.
Very easy to block numbers on an iPhone.

[Laurian]

6. Lately, the number has increased significantly.

I've been wondering if these marketing entities have found a new way to access cell numbers. It's extremely irritating. One reason we ditched the land line was to get away from the incessant marketing calls.

I've started to answer only those calls from people in my contact list. Others can just leave a message (the solicitation calls rarely do).

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Just wrote a response to a thread saying the same thing!

[MontanaMama]

9. I've noticed an uptick

in weird solicitation calls on my cell phone too. They are either a last chance offer to extend the warranty on my car, or I've won a cruise, or an offer to lower credit card debt. Each message states I can press 1 to be connected to "an agent" or 2 to be placed on their do not call list. I naively pressed 2 when this started happening instead of just hanging up and now they don't stop. I've blocked the numbers but they continue to call from other numbers/states. So annoying.

[CurtEastPoint]

10. I've installed 'Mr. Number' on my Android recently and the # has dropped significantly.

[MontanaMama]

11. Tell me more about this app!

I have an iPhone.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. For iphone as well

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mr-number-call-block-reverse-lookup/id1047334922?mt=8

http://www.guidingtech.com/62136/block-telemarketing-calls-iphone/

[MontanaMama]

14. Sweet.

Thanks!

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Thank you!

[CottonBear]

21. Wow! Thanks!

I am deluged with nuisance cell phone calls from my area code. The numbers look like local cell numbers but are really telemarketers and scammers.

[sarge43]

22. Thank you. n/t

[Iggo]

13. Probably two or three per week.

And the fun part is it's almost always my exact area code and phone number except with one or two numbers changed, and the location is a thousand miles away.

Morons.

[crazycatlady]

15. I've never had a landline of my own

So my cell's been my only phone for 15+ years so I don't have a 2nd option to give to a business.

I get robocalls from Rachel or Heather from Card Services allt he time.

[shenmue]

16. A few

[Binkie The Clown]

17. 4 or 5 a week, but....

... most of those are calls for some guy name "Ed" who must have a very similar phone number. They seem to be legitimate wrong numbers. Maybe 1 in 10 is a robo-call. I only give my cell number to friends and family.

[marylandblue]

18. Once you are in someone's database, you are sunk

They have all sorts of ways of getting your number. One method is to use a random number generator. If a live person answers, then they know it's a valid number and they can sell your number to phone scammers.

[sarge43]

20. 34 blocked numbers on my cell.

I brought it in April of this year. So, at least every other day. Many of these calls are robos; the computer just runs through the number series. Further, most phone companies sell their numbers. One of the reasons we signed up with US Cellular; it doesn't.

FWIW Our rule: Not on the contact list, we don't answer. We check the number on Google; 9 out of 10 it's a scam or spam or obviously a wrong number fail and it goes on the blocked list. Doesn't stop it, but slow it down.

[Phentex]

23. I have tons more lately...

was going to post something similar. I am also getting the ones that look like they are local. Similar number to my own number but a few digits off. I am starting to think it's not just from people I've given my number to but all of my contacts and their contacts and so on. And some of the blockers also need access to all of the numbers in your contact list. And some of them can't block numbers that are legitimate numbers that have been spoofed. It seems like a no-win situation.

I don't answer unless I know who it is but I've had to keep my phone on silent lately because I get so many calls. That means I can't hear notifications either. I'm starting to get surly about the whole thing.

[d_r]

24. I get them

From numbers that look local.

And sometimes I get calls from people because they just got a call from my number. And of course it wasn't me.

They are spoofing the numbers.

[UTUSN]

25. Used to be zero, but in the past 6 months, it's been 2-3 per week. Blocking doesn't seem to work.

[samnsara]

28. got one just as i was reading this!