The early hour may be a new thing? My parents say they get scam calls weekly if not daily. It's become the over coffee table talk who got what call since last they gathered. What an awful way to live--these scares and confusing older people.

I have never had a scam call before while sleeping. During the day? All the time. When the phone rings and it is a person I know I am surprised !

My phone won't ring between 10 PM & 7 AM unless it's one of the 6 members of Family Sharing, plus police, fire or alarm company.

Your smartphone has a Privacy Mode. We use it for peace and quiet throughout the night.

MY phone has now started to identify a lot of these calls as "Possible Scam". They can come at any time of day but usually during 'normal' hours. Obviously, I never answer those and seldom answer any call unless it is a number or caller I can identify. Since everyone I know has a cell phone and are in my contact list, no emergency calls would be missed.

Last week, I got a call every day at lunch time. Caller ID was my own number.

Do these idiots really believe they are fooling people I wonder? I didn't

answer any, so they called the next day, etc. etc. Sigh.

Since I am on a hospitality site, where people from ANYWHERE could be calling me, I sort of have to answer my phone (cell phone only here). But I have come to see, that any call from Sheboygan is a spam call.

Yes, I am on the "do not call" list.

Michael I am not sure, about a "privacy mode" setting I can use.. but I put my phone in flight mode during the same time frame as yours.

I value my sleep time.

Moni

I turn my phone off at night (generally around 8 PM) and don't turn it on until I am ready to receive calls/texts in the morning. I do this mainly to save the battery. No one would ever call me for an emergency, except perhaps my brother, and I leave the phone on if he is away from the house in the evening.

I was unaware of a privacy setting, but I don't think I need to use it.

Thanks for the heads up...buuuuuut.....we had a UPS delivery....for real...pull up to our front porch...bright lights blazing into our home..... waking us up.....@ 10:45pm. The package had our address and the neighbors name on it. I went to the door, flung it open....and he was very apologetic...said he'd had a flat tire and needed to get his deliveries out. This was last October, before the Christmas rush. THEN....he backed out of the driveway with his backup beepers blaring.....

We don't have a smart phone at home. There is no cell service out here. Our home phone is through the satellite company. I do have the ability to block 12 numbers and they are now one of them. I also blocked "Apple" as they call 3 times a day.

Our adult children turn off their phones at night but told us that if we ever needed to call them, call twice within 5 minutes it will ring through.

Our cell phone is our "travel" phone.

These telemarketers/scam scum just get bolder and more brazen with each passing year. Unfortunately, they do fool some people; otherwise the phone calls would stop and the scams would go away. They wouldn't do it if it wasn't successful for them.

Lately, we've been bombarded daily with calls from what my hubby calls "the google lady". She's relentless. We no longer answer the phone which has turned out to be a simple solution to a persistent annoyance.

Sign up for Nomorobo, although you still get one ring , which is enough to wake you. I don’t get scammers during the night but I get one every morning at 9:30 on the dot. Lately it says Mercy Medical. Nomorobo diverts it.

Last week we got a call at 3:30AM. By the time we woke up and got to the phone in another room, they had hung up. It was on caller ID as 'unknown'. We don't have cell service here, only land line.

And we don't like a phone by our bedside because of prank calls we use to get years ago. We don't turn it off because we are 3 hours earlier on the West Coast and our families are back East so it could be a real call. That last call got me so jazzed up, I couldn't get back to sleep afterwards.

My phone stays on Do Not Disturb. Sometimes I allow anyone in my contacts to get through. Sometimes just a few people that may call for an emergency. I sleep during the day and cannot be bothered. All my texts are on silent too except for SO. I turn the texts back on when I wake up. But the phone is always in Do not disturb mode. I get dozens of scam calls some days.....

I have no phone in my bedroom...landline or iPhone. I never answer my cell phone because no one knows my number except my kids. My land line has nomorerobocalls and it rings once and stops and says "scam call". If it rings more I look a caller ID and answer if I know who. The other day it was united states government. ...lol

LOl Ah Lily...I bet the Government had millions and millions of dollars to give

you ...or maybe they were coming to arrest you? LOL Scammers aren't

real smart with their stories, but they keep trying, don't they?

I think it’s very sad that people have to resort to all these tactics just to avoid spam calls and the problem just keeps getting worse.

A couple of years ago, we turned all the ringers off of our Ooma and that’s the only number we give out. I have the Ooma app on my phone and iPad that shows if a message was left. I usually only use that phone to call businesses too.

NOMOROBO diverts the vast majority of our spam calls, formerly 10 to 20 a day but lately 2 or 3.

My 83 year old father got the grandchild scam call today. I knew it was a scam, but he was so worried, I had to have my son call his Grandpa, to let him know he was not in jail in New York.

Not only did Dad's 'grandson' call asking him to wire money, but so did 'grandson's lawyer', and the officer in charge of the jail--just to prove that the call was 'legit'.

Someone on Nextdoor is giving THIS away. Has anyone tried one? It's an anti-spam phone monitor.