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Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone
by taborj 7y ago
Not sure if this is carrier-specific, but the phones my family uses will receive robocalls, but they come in with the name "Scam Likely." So somewhere, someone is keeping track of the various numbers that are used in a list, and using that to alter the carrier ID information to our benefit.
It doesn't catch all, but it hasn't incorrectly flagged one yet.
- eitland 7y agoGoogle does on my phone. Sometimes it will ask me after a call if it was spam. Works surprisingly well considering it is Google in 2019, but now that I think of it I can see a number of ways they'll mess up this as well ;-)
- criddell 7y agoI use Google's Call Screen service. It answers the call and tells the caller to state their name and reason for calling. The response shows up on my screen as text and I can decide to pick up at any time. 99% of the time, the call just disconnects. I really wish Google would let me set my phone to ring only for numbers in my address book and give everybody else a busy signal.
- tehlike 7y agoOn android, you can go to settings of the caller app, and enable "filter spam calls". Not exactly the same thing but still... You might have some trouble if you are a fi user.
- criddell 7y agoI am a fi user. The problem with settings like that is it still lets the call go to voicemail and I don't want to deal dozens of 4 second messages every week.
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- fpgaminer 7y agoT-Mobile does this, at least. You can also turn an account option on which will just plain block "Scam Likely" calls.
- DrWumbo 7y agoI had a friend collect calling me from jail for 8 days. It kept showing up as Scam Likely, so I wasn't answering. One day I decided to answer it in order to leave an awkward conversation and was shocked to learn what had been going on. I bailed him out that day and vowed never to trust a Scam filter again.