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I been bombarded with robo-calls since a couple days before Thanksgiving. The worst days were "black Friday" and the Saturday after when I was getting a call every ten minutes during the whole day. This week the calls have started about 7:30 in the morning and recently have stopped about 4:00 in the afternoon. Before the calls were continuing well beyond 6:00 in the evening. Since I never get called by my relatives after 7:00 I was just unplugging the phone then to stop the aggravation till the morning.

It seems to be mostly Medicare providers and possibly scammers. The few messages left on my answering machine lean that way. Our TV stations here have been overloaded with commercials from the same kind of folks. It's the sign-up period till the 7th, and the companies pushing Advantage network plans have been super aggressive this year.

I'm just thankful for caller ID. When I first moved to Phoenix I didn't have it. My number there apparently had been the fax number for some medical office, and every now and then I'd get days on end of some stupid testing service that never updated their files trying to send a fax to my number and their machine trying three times in a row, waiting fifteen minutes to an hour then trying again, day and night. Eventually it would stop only to happen again a few months later. I can't remember how I eventually tracked down where it was coming from, but I had to call two different office locations to get the right people to know they had the wrong number.