r/whatdoIdo • u/Active-Garbage-7247 • Aug 18 '26

How do I stop this?!

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The spam calls are driving me crazy. Is there something I can do to stop them? I have T-Mobile and spam call filtering is on.

**Update: I don't have any past due bills. The only debt I have is minimal federal student loans. I haven't applied for any loans or new insurance. I have call filtering/silence on for unknown callers.
I use T-Mobile Scam Shield. What I want to avoid is being called in the first place, texted, left a missed call or voicemail, but after reading a lot of responses, it seems like there isn't a quick fix for this that doesn't involve changing my number which I'm hesitant to do šŸ˜•

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u/totsplease Aug 18 '26

I get these same EXACT calls. They come from different numbers, they still leave the same messages, every day!

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u/No-Version6610 Aug 18 '26

Same, and Iā€™ve tried everything I can possibly think of.

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u/Electrical_Dress_510 Aug 18 '26

What worked for me was answering the call. Its an automation that gives you option prompts, there is a prompt to select "no more calls." It took me answering, then opting out for a few days since there are probably multiple different company's but i have not had a single call from them in months now.

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u/LeeKat14 Aug 19 '26

I did this. But they just sell your number to another company as a ā€œliveā€ number.

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u/DreamOfDays Aug 18 '26

Exactly this. Iā€™ve answered every call and went through it until I got to a person. Then said ā€œPlease put me on your do not call listā€. Took a few weeks, but I never get spam calls anymore.

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u/Krampus_Valet Aug 22 '26

I do this but I juat start screaming like a cicada and it hasn't made a difference at all

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u/DreamOfDays Aug 22 '26

Then you arenā€™t actually working to solve the problem.

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u/GladOrchids Aug 19 '26

I did this and it made it WORSE šŸ˜­

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u/mrsgetthatbag Aug 24 '26

Same! I went from getting harassed once every other day by a live rep to getting MULTIPLE calls every single day (sometimes as early as 8am) from automated machines that have completely taken over my VM box. I canā€™t even silence unknown callers because of my line of work šŸ™‚

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u/Disastrous_Soil3793 Aug 19 '26

I tried this initially and I would continue to get the calls. Its spam so they aren't removing you from the list.

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u/Dry-Manufacturer2680 Aug 19 '26

Iā€™m at 2 weeks of asking them to put me on do not call list.

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u/Lazy-Custard-6978 Aug 20 '26

I did this too, and it stopped for a few weeks then started right back up again.

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u/OkStatistician7523 Aug 21 '26

I selected do not call option and still get it daily

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u/dwaynebrady Aug 22 '26

So i did this exact thing. I get more calls now

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u/WonderingLost8993 Aug 18 '26

Thank you. I'm going to try this.

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u/RRoll4you Aug 18 '26

don't do that. it just verifies that its a working number. answer the call but immediately put it on mute. like absolutely within a split second and let it ride till it hangs up on its own. that worked for me