How to get Google to stop calling

[John White]

Does any one have any Idea how to get Google to stop to stop calling? I get up to 10 call a day from what they say is "updating my Google account. I know Google has nothing to do with this. I have asked to be removed but never helps. Some times I play along and say "wait till I go get the boss" and make them wait. I have entered my name on a do not call list. This a frustrating thing that many business have to deal with. I cant even hardly get any work done from running to the phone. I know we will never get them to stop till a law is past. Does any one happen to know the private phone number of a top govt. official or maybe his wife or girlfriend and the next time they call I am going to say please call my boss at ___ ____ ___ and maybe if they start get getting 10 or 15 calls a day they will take action. Has any one ever taken action against span callers and won?

 

[zzvyb6]

Without a correct caller ID, you won't be able to identify them. However, you can play along and give them all false information. Then have them contact you at the phone number of the local State Police post.

The phone company usually has a form to fill out to identify the true caller. Get their number and put it on your own Do Not Call list. AT&T has a site to post up to 20 numbers that you don't want to ring in. Requires AT&T though.

If you know how to program a computer, you can have a modem program dial a number over and over until the moon turns blue. Put a "DO LOOP" around it for say 4096 times and turn it loose. This will tie up a phone line so have it work the midnight shift.

I suppose you could also get the GPS location of the caller and send a drone equipped with a Hellfire to the callback number. That's just wishful thinkin' though...

 

[MacLawn]

Probably not google, but in still DO NOT use anything related to google if I can. I don't search with it, NO gmail mess, will not make YouTube account, although I watch tutorials there occasionally.

All I know about the calls is - they are knuckahaids! I don't answer my home phone at all, and only cell if I recognize the number from my address book.

 

[LJH]

I haven't heard from 'Google' but get periodic swarms of nuisance calls like that and let them all go the answering machine. If I'm in a particularly cranky mood I'll pick up, tell them to hold for a minute and go back to what I was doing until I hear the beeping when they hang up (my customers know to leave the VM). I understand how that wouldn't work for a regular business though.

Don't own a @#$% cell phone so no worries there.

 

[newbury]

Your in a computer, it will take a LOT of effort to get out.

Somehow, somewhere my "mispelled name" got listed as a Dentist. Every end of semester I get calls about hiring fresh new staff, usually female. SWMBO frowns on it. However occasionally I have gotten "sample packs" of REALLY good toothbrushes.
When it first happened I spent about an hour on the phone trying to get it stopped. But I gave up.
Now I'm starting to tell them I retired, which I did but not as a Dentist.

 

[dusty3030]

I suppose you could also get the GPS location of the caller and send a drone equipped with a Hellfire to the callback number. That's just wishful thinkin' though...

If there were ever a truer definition for "in a perfect world" written, I have never read it. You and I sir are brothers from another mother.

 

[sixdogs]

The only way that has ever worked for us is to simply hang up. As soon as we sense the call is a crank we just hang up. If no one answers promptly, which would indicate a bogus call, we just hang up. I'm not sure if it's the right way to discourage them but we sure have had a noticeable reduction in these calls. I'll add that we are on the do not call list. I would never talk to one of them. Never.

 

[oosik]

Huh. I have my phone number on the federal "do not call" list and have never been bothered by spam or crank calls. I don't have a land line - only a cell phone. I only turn the cell phone on when I want to make a call. All incoming calls go to my message box and when I turn the phone on I screen thru them and see if there are any I want to call back. Fantastic system for me.

 

[not2old]

When I get calls that won't quit, I get a person on the line and tell them I'm only allowed to talk to them if they have a retainer on deposit and ask for an address where I can send a bill. That's always worked for me. Once I was spammed with faxes that wouldn't quit. I wrote up a request to the advertiser, to take my number off their calling list and sent it by fax. When sending it, I taped it into a loop so that it ran continual for hours during the night. A couple of days later, the faxes quit.

 

[KTurner]

Google the phone number that is being called. Yes, your number. Maybe it was mistakenly put on the web somewhere (someone made a typo) and that's why you're getting all these . Something along these lines.