Why am I getting so many unsolicited acquisition and sales calls?
Growing businesses attract an overwhelming volume of spam, sales, and acquisition calls within hours of a number becoming active. This flood of calls forces owners to pay for artificial virtual answering services or call blockers just to manage the daily disruption.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Ignoring the calls
- 2Hanging up
- 3paying for a virtual answering service
- 4using an interactive voice response system that requires callers to press a digit before ringing
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Within 24 hours of the number being active I had received 67 spam or sales calls! I couldn’t believe it!”source ↗
“To the point that I had to pay for a virtual answering service (you know the artificial ones).”source ↗
“I've been getting more as I've grown.”source ↗
“That! My blocker has answered & blocked a total of over 200 calls within 48 hours! 😱🤯”source ↗
Where this came up
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