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nonightowl · Sep 08, 2021 at 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by sarahsweets

I agree with you about keeping a landline. Personally I use that number when I don’t want telemarketing calls. We don’t ever answer it. But when we’ve had power outages we have a working phone ! But it also has to be a landline. Cordless ones don’t work without power.

I get calls from scammers no matter what number it is. They somehow get a hold of both. Cell phone is "smarter" in silencing those calls or recognizing it as a telemarketer. But I just don't answer my landline, though I found it better to let the scam recording finish on my machine. Picking it up and hanging on it didn't disconnect it. It tied up my line so that people calling got a busy signal. But I had silence, no dial tone. So now I check to be sure my line isn't "dead" from those calls.

Seems to just happen when I pick up and "hang up".