Telemarketer calls like crazy??

In the past 30 hours, I have received nearly 25 telemarketer calls to my cell phone. This has never happened before! Has anyone else had this problem??

Hello Kathy,
I get them all the time. I have an app that keeps me from ever knowing they called, unless I check the log. It can be found in the Play Store and it's called "Call Control".
You can set the app up to send the calls to voicemail, which I do. Because, there is a rare occasion when it's a call I would have taken if I'd known they weren't a spammer. You can have the call picked up and hung up on. If you have unlimited minutes, you can use this option without worry. But, if you don't have unlimited minutes, I'd just use the "voicemail" option.
Or you can let the call ring, but the ringer is muted.
The downside is you have to add each number one by one. You can't enter a block of numbers. But, I had them each time I get a all from them, so it's not so bad.
The app has loads of other features you might like too, like blocking "Private" or "Unknown" callers, etc.
There are other apps available, but this was the best one I found for me. It was the only one that didn't allow the call to ring once before blocking the call according to my settings. As I said, I have no clue anyone's called, unless I check the log.
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