Spam Calls Are OOC

It sucks. I get 5-6 a day and all my voicemails are scam advertisements. 50k loan,10k Tax credit, etc

I know that most on here act cool and say “I don’t answer of I don’t recognize the #”. But a lot of times, you get legit calls from numbers you don’t recognize(dr office, contractors). And it does take your attention to look at the phone especially if you’re busy doing something. Or sometimes you’re napping and get woke up by a scam likely call.

The worst are the ones that go straight to voice mail and always leave a damned robo voice recording! I HATE having to clear that crap out! All those involved in spam calls should be flayed!

Whitelist.... anything not in contacts is ignored.

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$70,000 personal loan I am approved for…

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Lucky

It's called "silence unknown callers" in iOS, and there is one setting for calls, and another for texts.

I got Robokiller in July. It was stopping about 10 calls a day.

Earlier this month the spammers finally gave up.

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What the hell can be done about this?

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The way I've defeated it:

1. A random phone number that hopefully not many people have had before. Don't go for the easy to remember numbers when you're choosing. Those are what everyone else goes for.

2. Do not, under any circumstances, set up your voicemail. I mean, don't even allow the default voicemail. You need the phone to ring until whoever is calling gives up.

3. When you get a call from an unknown number do not hit the ignore button. You can mute it, but don't decline the call.

4. Never, ever answer a number you don't know. I know some people have to, but if you don't have to......don't do it. Ignore every call from any number you don't know.

5. Once you've managed to do this for a phone and number combo for a while......guard it with your life and never let it go.

The goal is to make the number appear to the shite head spammers as if it is inactive. That's why you have no voicemail and don't answer unknown calls. I can count on one hand the number of spam calls I have gotten in the past four or five years. I'm dreading having to get a new phone soon because I have this one where I want it. The other phone on our account gets blown up daily, but she didn't follow my warnings.

How does this work for all the places you don't regularly deal with (like customer support) that call you back? You just miss it?

Or you have to think ahead and turn the filter off when you think you have a call like that coming?

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carrier pigeon or one of those saint bernards with a barrel around its neck

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