I'm in the Netherlands and I hardly ever get any spam calls on my T-Mobile phone. Is there some reason like Dutch regulations, or are spam calls pandemic in the US because of American deregulation, or am I just unpopular with the spammers?
UK also has them, Germany doesn't. I don't think it's the language barrier (UK calls are targeted for UK customers), so there's likely a difference in regulation or treatment by providers.
The fake "Microsoft Support" calls happen in Germany too, but appears to be mostly on land-line numbers.
Or why isn't the law enforced? Why is the FCC and do-not-call.gov asleep on the job? Why are scammers even allowed to spoof caller IDs from local area-code numbers that don't even exist? (Thankfully, this makes them blissfully easy to spot. But I fear someday the fraudsters will get up to speed on that heuristic.) Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a technical measure like the one you suggest — it appears to be sorely n…
> Why is the FCC and do-not-call.gov asleep on the job? I can't speak to the FCC's leadership under Ajit Pai, but donotcall.gov was shuttered during the latest government shutdown.
But you can! Mostly in Android though. I can confirm MIUI - the stock rom on Xiaomi phones - have this exact feature built in. You can block all hidden numbers, all numbers not in your address book, specific numbers, etc. Or one can use Tasker - an Android automation app to achieve the same functionality and more in any Android phone. I suppose these days, you can use Iphone's scripting functionality as well for the…
Yes this is excellent feature and working very well
This feels a bit tech-supporty. Are you sure you can't? There seem to apps for doing call blocking on both Android and iOS. I'd be absolutely shocked if none of them allow checking against your contacts.
A few years ago my parents were getting a lot of spam calls on their landline. Basically all of them were automated calls, either a recorded message or you were connected to a person shortly after the call was connected. I bought an OBi100 [0], which is a small device designed to be a VOIP adapter, but you can setup rules on how calls (incoming or outgoing) are handled. I setup a rule that if the call was from a with…
Seems to be a US problem. I als never get unsolicited calls in my country.
Had plenty of robocalls during my year in the UK - mainly the same message that tries to get you to speak first then goes on a spiel about being involved in a car accident that wasn't my fault (given I don't have a car that was pretty moot)
One of them got quite excited when I told her that I’d just wrecked my Lambo. Sadly I didn’t have a Lambo to wreck. They keep calling me, though.
The callers, by their accent, seem to have moved to the vicinity of the Indian subcontinent since [1]. Bless their hearts, they still do check in on my once in a while. It just doesn’t make sense that they don’t organise and make a database of nuisance callees or callees with no vehicle.
Custom ringtone that is silent and individual ring tones for the select few contacts?
Wonder if you could do a no vibration pattern also, I haven't turn my ring tone on in like 10 years.
I really like my Nokia 6 except I hate that you cannot disable just vibrations easily. and also that there is a high minimum volume for all sounds, sometimes at night I use earphones as speakers.
A few years ago my parents were getting a lot of spam calls on their landline. Basically all of them were automated calls, either a recorded message or you were connected to a person shortly after the call was connected. I bought an OBi100 [0], which is a small device designed to be a VOIP adapter, but you can setup rules on how calls (incoming or outgoing) are handled. I setup a rule that if the call was from a with…
This is the kind of solution that only works because basically nobody is doing it. If a big provider deployed it, it would take five seconds for it to be defeated.
The OP didn't exhaust their solutions. They found a simple solution which works (for them), and shares it. Once the solution gets widely adopted, it will also get more attack surface. In the meantime, the solution works well because the risk (getting spam calls once more) is worth the small investment. Its essentially a no-brainer to implement this, if you suffer from this issue (I don't, I'm eagerly waiting for a fun phone call with Miclosoft customer support despite owning no such products).
A few years ago my parents were getting a lot of spam calls on their landline. Basically all of them were automated calls, either a recorded message or you were connected to a person shortly after the call was connected. I bought an OBi100 [0], which is a small device designed to be a VOIP adapter, but you can setup rules on how calls (incoming or outgoing) are handled. I setup a rule that if the call was from a with…
This is the kind of solution that only works because basically nobody is doing it. If a big provider deployed it, it would take five seconds for it to be defeated.
I just love the thought of identifying a CAPTCHA-like obscured audio everytime I am calling someone.. :D