Verizon phone number.

[Almeuit]

I personally vote against changing your number for spam. It truly isn't going to solve anything. Maybe for a little but not forever.

 

[goin_nil]

I've had the same cell phone # for as long as I've had a cell # (about 20 years). I've been with Verizon for almost half that time. I never received robocalls until this year. And it's been 2 to 5 a week at times for three pay several months.

Check the news. It's been increasing dramatically for everyone.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/smarter-living/stop-robocalls.amp.html

The robocalls are even getting smarter by making the call look like it's coming from your own area code so you are more likely to answer it.

Fortunately for me, I rarely get calls from unknown numbers so I don't even answer the phone, I just hangup immediately. If it's a real call or important, they leave a message.

 

[N4Newbie]

The number of spam calls has increased. It's become a scourge, and it's getting worse all the time.

This ^^

I and my co-workers have seen a marked increase in cell spam over the past few months. Different phones (both Android and iOS), different networks. Same increase in spam.

 

[can3gxw]

Verizon selling your phone number is not new. This is a basic Google search. This should be illegal.

https://www.google.ca/search?safe=o...5.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.2.444.svUEy9IgJFU

We have privacy laws here in Canada for a reason.

 

[N4Newbie]

Verizon selling your phone number is not new. This is a basic Google search. This should be illegal.

https://www.google.ca/search?safe=o...5.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.2.444.svUEy9IgJFU

We have privacy laws here in Canada for a reason.

I would seriously doubt that today's spammers are working from lists of phone numbers. That might have made sense when actual human beings were sitting there at a desk and manually dialing numbers but that is no longer the case. A very simple computer program can dial sequential numbers in an instant and disconnect immediately for invalid numbers and non-answers while putting "answers" through to a recorded message or live person as the case may be.