Editor's Notebook

Hello, our records indicate your Medicare report is not up to date.

Hi, can you hear me?

Don’t hang up.

Thank God I caught you!

I’ve been trying to call you since October 15 (and the date was actually October 21).

Hey, this is Naomi. You do have Medicare parts A and B, don’t you?

Does any of this sound familiar?

In one business day we counted the calls at the newspaper office.

After doing the math, we  figured they were coming in at the rate of every 15 minutes.

You can usually spot that it is a robo call when  you look at the caller ID and it’ll say something like Wanette, OK or fill in the blank with any other town in the state.

We average at least one every 15 minutes.

Just think how time consuming that is answering so many robo calls.

One reader reported when she gets one of the AI generated calls she blows a loud whistle into the phone.

Problem is, the robot callers don’t have ears so you could blow a fog horn into the phone and it wouldn’t be a deterrent.

Another reader told us they block all unknown cell phone numbers.

Yet another said they only answer their phone when they recognize the number showing up on their screen.

Other than that, they count them all as spam.