Freedom56
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
One of the biggest frustrations after retiring was dealing with 4 to 5 nuisance phone calls every day. When I was working, my wife had to deal with these and she would complain regularly. The calls include: IRS scams, Department of Treasury scams, home remodeling, payday loan scams, political surveys, robocalls, phony charities, and the latest 911 scam. I had been using Lingo VOIP for many years and they had very little ways to combat these callers. We needed to try something as things were getting out of hand. I switched to Ooma VOIP early August at a cost of $99 for the phone unit and a flat $100 for the first year of Ooma premier service (normally $9.99 per month) including the cost of porting the number over. In addition to anonymous call blocking, Ooma premiere allows you to block with community blacklist (over 8000 known scammers), Nomorobo expanded black list, plus your own personal black list. After almost two months of this service, the frequency of nuisance calls has dropped from 4-5 per day to 1-2 per week. If any of you are experiencing regular phone scams, I highly recommend a VOIP service with expanded call blocking feature. If anybody has any other method of dealing with phone scams, please let me know.