Yes I have "won" a few cruise trips-I ended up calling Bell and having all of those calls reported and blocked.

I've had more like a dozen over the last three or so years. I hang up with the 'congratulations'.

You could play them a bit before telling them to shove it where the sun don't shine, or block them, or tell them you're going to report them.

Scammers like this are deplorable. You know some people will fall for it.

Good point-I refrain from even doing a quick pick up and hang up. I let the calls go to recording, and most of the time, numbers unknown to me hang up before that anyway.

ah shoot. Oh well, next tie I'll play with them a little, tee hee

Sleeper, you do understand that you shouldn't even pick up the phone on unknown calls, right?

I rarely get those type phone calls. Being on the Do Not Call list evidently works fine for me; but recently I have been getting emails from various people who always sign their real name. Problem is they are all in this unknown tongue:
ѕuе I wаѕ ѕеnt аn іntеrеѕtіng еmаіl ѕοmе wеекѕ аgо ѕuе аbоut
wоrκіng οnlіnе frοm hоmе.
I hаνе nοw bееn uÑ•Ñ–ng Ñ–t fоr quÑ–tе а bÑ–t, аnd nοw Ñ–'m ѕеndÑ–ng Ñ–t аlоng tо ѕоmе οf уοu Ñ–n оur ÑоntаÑtÑ• lÑ–Ñ•t..

http://tr.im/JiRf7

Јuаn Ваѕѕ

Of course they go immediately to the Trash Bin.

Can you delete the link from your post? Probably a dangerous site and you don't want anyone ot click on by mistake.

I've never won a cruise, but I won a brand-new car a while back. I only had to pay $500 shipping fee...just give them my credit card number, and the car would be on the way to me.

Then I recently won the Publishers Clearinghouse Contest, and they called to alert me that the car with the balloons would be coming to my home the next day. I just had to give them my credit card number to cover some of the publicity costs.

I usually hang up on them immediately, but sometimes I'm curious as to what wonderful thing I have "won".

Well, Rhizo, I must be the last person in the world who doesn't have caller ID on my land line. Heck, I might be the last person in the world WITH a land line. I have to answer the phone when I'm on call.

You and me sleeperblues.

Sorry this is not for Sleeperblues. For those who have caller ID or an answering machine I block anyone who doesn't leave a message. I don't answer calls that have no name. If you really need me you can email me or text. With the presidential election upon us they are fishing among other things. Oh and also you can google the number and very often people have reported them to one of many sites.

We have won numerous cruises (we don't answer but they sometimes leave messages, most don't), and today the message changed to 'A Wonderful Vacation Package! Actually, these are not messages, they are robotic introductions that start when the answering machine catches the calls. Luckily we can block 25 calls now as opposed to 12 as it used to be. Oh, the free security systems we have left unclaimed, the opportunities for enhanced credit lines, etc! The mind is boggled!

Sometimes those calls are real sales calls, but the hook is not "free". It's a ploy to get you trapped in a space controlled by them so they can apply high pressure tactics on you. And then, other calls may be outright fraud.

We also have a land line without caller ID. (ID is no help when you still have to go TO the phone to see it.) We're registered with the Do Not Call list. We average one annoyance call a day. .

Some of the stuff is truly laughable. The free cruises. The unintelligible guy who wants to 'fix' your software. The incarcerated guy who needs a money order from "Grandma" to buy a bus ticket home.

What annoys me most is that I have come to *expect* a scam when I answer the phone -- and that genuine callers have also come to expect a "Third Degree" about why they are calling (if I don't recognize the voice).

chisue, just get a talking caller ID.

I still like Phonetrayfree. Rejects scam calls and I can choose what they hear. I use a SIT tone and announcement that the phone is disconnected (which is quite effective) or use a toilet flushing for some, a toilet use sound for some and you can manually add numbers to it or even a series of numbers, for instance, if they're using a bank of numbers, e.g. 800-555-9_ _ _, I can block any call that starts with 800-555-9. Can block an entire exchange or area code for that matter. I reject any blocked call too. Great little program. I have to answer at times with the medical issues but if they call without CID info it's at their risk. If they don't leave a message, they're blocked next time.

Junk calls go in streaks around here. The Do Not Call list has certainly helped a lot but of course it's not going to stop everything. Only the totally uninformed would think it would. But what happens is people using the current lists get worn out getting rejected and it gets removed from some lists. Then they sell off the lists and it starts over. But the length of time gets shorter and shorter. I made a big effort to cut junk mail and junk calls and it has paid off handsomely for me.

I also have it set so if I do answer a junk call by mistake I just hit reject and it gives the selected message and they're blocked in the future.