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The way I handle this is to create a contact called SPAM RISK and add all the spam calls I get to that contact. My siblings do the same. Once a month, when we g
by todipa 7y ago
The way I handle this is to create a contact called SPAM RISK and add all the spam calls I get to that contact. My siblings do the same. Once a month, when we go to our parent's house, we sync this contact (we block this "caller"). Our parents are getting old and are starting to fall prey to these robo callers. I haven't figured out another way to help them...
- tehlike 7y agoI am using Google's dialer on android, and it's been very effective with identifying spam callers... disclaimer: google employee.
- techntoke 7y agoSuggestion... Don't block Google dialer app from a majority of non-Google phones.
- jchw 7y agoGoogle employees do not agree with all of the things Google does. Disclaimer: also google employee.
- tehlike 7y agoin fact, i disagree with a healthy portion of it. Edit: I don't think he's being negative - he's saying "don't do it" and i agree.
- dwyerm 7y ago...or maybe even offer those features to Google Voice's dialer, as well.
- lprubin 7y agoThats a good start. What about telling them to never answer a call from an unknown number. Any legit call will leave a voicemail and that will weed out a large number of scammers. Next, if the voicemail is clearly a robot voice, make sure they don’t respond until checking with you first. That should weed out another big chunk.
- drfrank 7y agoMany telemarketers have switched to "soundboards" which use responses pre-recorded from native speakers. It's increasingly difficult to recognize that a robot is talking to you. You can ask them if they're a robot, and they have a pre-recorded answer ready for you. They have a finite set of responses, though. Ask them what the difference is between a burrito and an enchilada.
- toast0 7y ago> What about telling them to never answer a call from an unknown number. Just yesterday, I got a call with caller ID for Chase bank, audio in Chinese. Trusting caller ID is a bad choice (at least currently)
- fortran77 7y agoExactly! Telling people to "only pick up from numbers you know" is not good advice. The whole point of this article is that caller IDs can be spoofed. That's what these new protocols are all about.
- jerf 7y ago2 or 3 weeks ago I got my first call from "Comcast", which I do not have a contact for. I was surprised because I didn't even know the system as a whole was capable of that. I've never seen a non-contact name come up in my phone UI before, only phone numbers, or phone numbers mapped to my contacts. On the plus side, when I get a call from a textual non-contact number it's a heck of a strong signal I don't need to pick up.
- awinder 7y agoI'm using robokiller (https://www.robokiller.com https://www.robokiller.com) which does a decent job of "getting ahead" of fraud numbers, especially of the local number spoofing variety.
- jerf 7y agoI was doing that for a while and stopped when I never got a duplicate.