Bizarre telephone goings on

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Got two phone calls back-to-back.

One a robo scare message something about heath care wanting to transfer me to someone ...

I hung the phone up but it would not disconnect! Finally had to unplug the entire phone from the jack into the wall to terminate it.

Then about 10 mins. later, another one about how SS is going broke blah blah ....

Same story -- hung-up the phone and it would not go away, had to unplug the phone from the wall jack again!

is going on here!

How is this able to even be done (meaning call me and the phone fails to disconnect when hung-up!)? This happened on two different phones btw.

Help if you have a single clue as to what is going on here!

Someone out there is mighty desperate to really PISS PEOPLE OFF is what I'm thinking. Its working well here at the moment!!

Thanks for any help w/this!

P.S. I'm on the DO NOT CALL list. Obviously another failure ...

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1. Leave Me Alone!

Enough already!!!

[oldhippie]

2. Actually, it's always been that way, ........

It's too hard to explain in detail to a layman, but that's the way telephone switching has worked pretty much since the beginning of automatic switching. Briefly, when a person picks up the phone to make a call and gets a dial tone, he has seized a "line-finder." The LF initiates the process of running thru the switches as you dial the digits. Once the connection to the end station is made, it is kept until the originator of the call hangs up and releases the line finder and breaks down the circuit. So it was always the call originator who controlled how long the connection lasted. In the old days it would tie up your phone until he hung up.

Now, any old telecomm engineers will find that over simplistic. And the modern computerized switching has done away with the old line finders and step-by-step mechanical switches. But a lot of the old protocols are still in place, and generally, with some built-in safeguards, the call originator controls the connection.

Don't even get me started on the DO NOT CALL list.

[MineralMan]

3. Yup. And robo-callers are notorious for not relinquishing the

connection immediately when the recipient hangs up. It is an annoyance.

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4. I've had my phone in the do not answer mode lately

Meaning have not been answering "it" nor letting the answering machine p/u calls either.

Sick of it all really -- need a break!

And now this c r a p .

[SheilaT]

5. I keep on getting somewhat similar calls,

although I'm not entirely certain what they're about since I hang up every time as soon as I realize it's a robo-call.

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7. It seems to have stopped

If it happens again, I'll get a new phone #. I can't take this crap. It upsets me and being upset is not at all good for my rather delicate health (and no, I am not exaggerating).

Thanks to all that replied. You've helped me a lot!

[SheilaT]

8. Depending on how many people who know your current phone number,

it strikes me as a bit drastic to change it.

Just hang up as soon as you realize it's a robo call. I've been doing that for years, especially during election time when I quite frankly don't need a robo call from any candidate.

[snooper2]

6. I suggest you look up how tip&ring work