I think everyone gets spam calls regardless of what they're trying to sell. I was playing cards with a friend of mine and her phone went off about every 5 minutes and it was a spam call. It interrupted our game because we had to stop for her to answer and/or see that it was spam and disconnect. I probably get half a dozen or so a day. If I don't recognize the number and/or name, I don't answer. If I receive the same number several time and no voice mail, I then block the number from my phone.

Same here. If I go through the series of qualifying questions by the robocaller and get connnected to a person, it is invariably someone with an common, English sounding name and an Indian accent. I guess they are not subject to any of the laws governing telemarketing in the USA. I suspect American insurance companies are outsourcing their lead generation to India.
It's amusing to see how long you can keep one of them on the line, but after the first 10 calls it gets kinda tedious.

They're infrequent enough here that we don't consider them to be a problem [as I tap my noggin].

I attribute it to either, a) we're being rewarded for our good clean living, or b) they've done their due diligence and, "you can't get blood from a stone."  

Through the telephone company I get a free service called 'call control'. I turn it on by dialing *99. The robot tells me if the service is on or off. I turn it on and off by toggling the number 1. If I turn it on the calling party is instructed to push a button from 1 to 9. If the caller pushes the correct button my phone rings. This eliminates all robo calls [to my knowledge.] Unless the calling robot has some extravagant A.I there is no ability to understand the command and activate the right button. Once someone gets through the call control feature their number goes into a data base so they don't have to push buttons every time they call me. I can can also go online and choose up to 25 friends or contacts who I can authorize to call me without pushing buttons. I can also block a number forever. We were getting about 20 junk calls every day 3 years ago. Today its zero.

I use Verizon on an iPhone SE3 — iOS 26.2.1— I have never set up any kind of filter that I know of. But spam calls are silenced, though they are shown. Periodically I delete the records. Don’t know if you have an iPhone or your carrier offers this service. But I don’t think land lines have the technology for this kind of filtering.

Spam..eggs ..n home frys....
Mmmmm....
Time to wake up..

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Originally posted by Jon Borcherding

Same here. If I go through the series of qualifying questions by the robocaller and get connnected to a person, it is invariably someone with an common, English sounding name and an Indian accent. I guess they are not subject to any of the laws governing telemarketing in the USA. I suspect American insurance companies are outsourcing their lead generation to India.
It's amusing to see how long you can keep one of them on the line, but after the first 10 calls it gets kinda tedious.

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Sometimes I get the urge to answer and be ignorant and misleading in my responses.  I considered it a major victory last month when I got one of the telemarketers to call me a  "****ing ***hole", and hang up.

A different light / perspective??   https://www.operationshamrock.org/library/2025-12-ctv-torture-in-scam-compounds

[The headline is: Trafficking victims scam under threat of violence.]