If all the caller ID says is “UnivAdmissions,” I wouldn’t assume it could be a legit U. A real college should have its name in the ID. And a real U, if they miss you via a call, is smart enough to leave a message or email. Adcoms don’t have time to play tag and make the multiple calls you’re getting, including Saturdays.
Did you ever try calling back the phone number, see how they answer? Or if it’s even in the same area code as the colleges you hope will call?
you can’t use that on Verizon.<<<<<
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I think you need to ask a teenager how to use your phone.
A teenager doesn’t help in this case.
Verizon Wireless (cell) does not support “Simultaneous Ring” (Why should they? They want to charge additional monthly service for call blocking) that nomorobo needs.
On my cell phone, I save all “questionable” phone numbers under a contact named “zzspam” (“zz” prefix so that it’s last in my contact list), and mark this contact “All calls to voicemail.”
I don’t pick up calls from numbers that I don’t recognize, letting the voicemail to pick up. If the caller doesn’t leave a legitimate message, that number becomes “questionable.”
You can’t use it on home or cell with Verizon in my area. They sell their own service to block calls.
EDIT: Occasionally my cell phone will display “suspected spam” on my display. Like maybe 3 -4x a year.
@Absdad is it an Android phone? Mine says “Scam Likely”, sometimes. You can block individual calls as they come in, whether you answer them or not, then at least you force the spammers/scammers to change phone #s. I get very, very few since I started blocking as they arrive. Only takes a sec.
Other strategies - one ringtone for numbers in my contacts, another one for anyone not in contacts. If my phone isn’t near me I don’t bother to get up if I hear the “not in my contacts” ringtone.
@AbsDad scammers call my house all the time and ask for me…by name.
I no longer answer any calls where the number isn’t identified by name. And since these scammers don’t leave a message, I know they are garbage.
I do not answer calls if I don’t recognize the name or number. Legit calls leave messages. Two calls from the same number with no message gets that number blocked, which I can do with my iPhone or with the phone I use for my landline. Definitely stop answering these calls. It only encourages them.
If you have to ask, it’s fake. Caller ID is easily spoofed.
I have a home phone line for our house alarm but the ringer is turned off. By now, I don’t get any calls.
What drives me nuts is the spam calls to my cell phone. It manages to say a phone number and my city. When they come during the school day, I pick it up because I think it might be the school or my kids using another person’s phone to reach me. Both have happened.
It’s always the same one, too. “Elizabeth”, with the sweet little voice, I don’t really want to listen to your recorded spiel about how I have earned a free trip. :-L