Multiple marketing calls per hour? Why? I get maybe two per week on my land line, maybe one per month on cell. I don't answer "Hello" for any unknown caller, because "Hello" is recognized by predictive dialers. So I usually get silence and hang up.
Later that day he called back again and I said “crocodile” and he responded “I haven’t called you before” and hung up.
Normally I keep my ringer off so I only know how many calls I get by looking at the list of missed calls but some days I need to have my ringer on.
I imagine answering these calls gets you added to lists of easy marks that those companies sell each other.
Some I’ve been able to block by using an app to block all calls from Texas
But a lot of the calls are from area codes which I don’t want to block the whole range for
The only good alternative is to keep my phone on Do not Disturb
I never answer my phone anymore.