# Damn phone scammers

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 6, 2023, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-phone-scammers/983668 "2023-05-06T14:07:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 7, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damn-phone-scammers/983668/12 "2023-05-07T15:52:50Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> You must not live in a cellphone desert. If course, that means i need to answer my landline, too.

We still have a landline because there are some people we do _not_ want calling our cells.

> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> We’ve started using nomo-robo, a free service Verizon offered us.

After blocking our area code + first number of the exchange, I noticed that our nomorobo had somehow been disabled. It’s now re-enabled but some of those blocked numbers still try calling – primarily numbers which supposedly belong to [SAIC](https://www.saic.com/). I picked up once and it was a robocall about Medicare supplement plans.

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