The same company has been harassing for the better part a year now wanting to buy a property I don’t own. I have filled a DO NOT CALL registration, I have blocked their numbers multiple times, I have told them to stop calling and to remove my name from their list, and now I’m getting maybe 1 or 2 calls a day and multiple texts.

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    9 months ago

    that means you also have their number right?

    make a craigslist listing with content like “free concrete mixer” “free plushies” or something like that and their number as contact info, won’t work on robocalls probably

    the effect is twofold: first they will get calls (originating from real numbers) from cheapskates wanting their freebies. then their number may be picked up by a crawler and get cold calls from unrelated spam operations. this all in addition to figuring out what just happened

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      9 months ago

      If OP is blocking their numbers and they keep calling from new ones, most likely they’re spoofing numbers. Doing what you’re saying could in that case affect someone completely innocent

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      They’re probably spoofing the number. Call them back to confirm before you screw up some poor bastard’s phone.

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      if you get it right you might force them to change phone number

      while it’s a certified chaotic move, this might be not entirely legal