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I get maybe 2 calls a month that are both legitimate, and from numbers I don't recognize. Which is frustrating! Because it might seem like that's a low enough

I get maybe 2 calls a month that are both legitimate, and from numbers I don't recognize. Which is frustrating! Because it might seem like that's a low enough frequency to make whitelisting a viable solution. But it's not—for the reasons you outlined. 2 calls a month are important enough to me that I must receive every spam call that comes in. I'm still pretty good at sniffing out most of them. A lot are still matching my area-code and exchange numbers on the spoofed ID—a huge red flag. Many others show rural cities that I'm certain no legit caller would call me from. But then there are the in-betweens: calls I can't make heads or tails of unless I answer. Whenever I do get one of these legit-but-unrecognized calls, I immediately add them to my contacts in some vain attempt to reach whitelist nirvana. But I don't think I'll ever get there.

c0wb0yc0d3r 5y ago
Voicemail. Why doesn't it work in this case? Do you work in sales? If so, why not use a separate "business" phone? Get the cheapest pixel you can find and enjoy the benefits of call screening. Maybe just a voip app on your current phone would work? I'm having trouble understanding how 2 phonecalls, poses such a big problem. Please help me understand.
- function_seven 5y ago
  It's not business related. These are calls from dog groomers, doctors, and other service providers. I have a separate phone number for my job (which also is starting to get spammed). My voicemail box is about 2/3 spam voicemails. It doesn't really fix anything, just shifts it to another place that I then have to check to weed out spam calls and find the legitimate ones. > I'm having trouble understanding how 2 phonecalls, poses such a big problem. Please help me understand. Okay, so it's not a "big problem". I'm being a little hyperbolic in my previous comment. It's an annoyance, and a galling one. Like email spam was back in the day. I could still find the legitimate emails among that crap, but it sucked and I would've rather not. The 2 phone calls themselves aren't the problem. The spam is. But the 2 phone calls each month are enough that I don't want to just ignore all non-whitelisted calls. Doing that will cause its own annoyance, as I miss calls that I didn't want to, and have to check voicemail each time a spammer calls me.
  - usefulcat 5y ago
    I ignore nearly all unrecognized incoming calls (average ~1 per day but varies a lot, sometimes 5-10 in one day). IME only a very small percentage actually bother to leave a message. But perhaps this varies by region, or carrier, or any number of other things.

c0wb0yc0d3r 5y ago

Voicemail. Why doesn't it work in this case? Do you work in sales? If so, why not use a separate "business" phone? Get the cheapest pixel you can find and enjoy the benefits of call screening. Maybe just a voip app on your current phone would work? I'm having trouble understanding how 2 phonecalls, poses such a big problem. Please help me understand.

function_seven 5y ago
It's not business related. These are calls from dog groomers, doctors, and other service providers. I have a separate phone number for my job (which also is starting to get spammed). My voicemail box is about 2/3 spam voicemails. It doesn't really fix anything, just shifts it to another place that I then have to check to weed out spam calls and find the legitimate ones. > I'm having trouble understanding how 2 phonecalls, poses such a big problem. Please help me understand. Okay, so it's not a "big problem". I'm being a little hyperbolic in my previous comment. It's an annoyance, and a galling one. Like email spam was back in the day. I could still find the legitimate emails among that crap, but it sucked and I would've rather not. The 2 phone calls themselves aren't the problem. The spam is. But the 2 phone calls each month are enough that I don't want to just ignore all non-whitelisted calls. Doing that will cause its own annoyance, as I miss calls that I didn't want to, and have to check voicemail each time a spammer calls me.
- usefulcat 5y ago
  I ignore nearly all unrecognized incoming calls (average ~1 per day but varies a lot, sometimes 5-10 in one day). IME only a very small percentage actually bother to leave a message. But perhaps this varies by region, or carrier, or any number of other things.