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Outside of that, "Do Not Disturb" 24/7, whitelist all your contacts, change your voicemail message to "I don't check my voicemail because it's constantly spam, text me", and ignore your voicemail.
Here's their page detailing how they rotate through buckets of local numbers to present a new one on each attempt: http://www.nobelbiz.com/solutions/telco-services/localtouch-...
I got to meet these shitlords not too long ago and one them explained how the local calls were great for collection agencies since the poor bastards thought the agency was just down the street. They're also regularly in court defending their patent (google for "NobelBiz v."). So you could call them to report the spammer, they might be able to add your number to their blocklist, or in the case the number isn't operated by one of their customers then they should be interested as it would indicate another company to sue.
T-Mobile claims to block scam calls now. I just turned it on a few days ago, so it’s too soon to tell, but I haven’t gotten any unwanted calls, where I usually get at least one a day. https://explore.t-mobile.com/callprotection From what I’ve read, without trying it, nomorobo seems to be recommended. I was going to give it a whirl before I found t-mo will blocks the calls now.
I'd suggest turning on Scam ID for a bit before turning on Scam Block. It still rings, but has a "Scam Likely" caller id name. So far it's had three false positives: the robocalls from my kid's school related to snow days and bus delays, the reminder calls from my doctor, and a fraud alert from Capital One to confirm or deny a flagged charge. I only caught those ones because the numbers were already saved in my phone…
It's not your imagination - these types of calls are out of control. According to our data, 40% of all calls made in the US are illegal, unwanted spam/scam robocalls. And those "neighbor" spoofed calls (same area code and extension) are especially prevalent now. Beginning last summer, they started to account for ~20% of all robocalls. Before that they were only about 2% of all robocall volume.
The Do Not Call list is almost completely ineffective against these types of calls. It was created 15+ years ago to stop legitimate companies from telemarketing. But today's robocallers are criminals that don't really care about the law. They have one goal - scam people and take their money.
Manually blocking calls will also get you nowhere. And please, for the love of god, don't press a number to get on their alleged "do-not-call" list. That will guarantee that you will get even more robocalls - they know you're a live number now.
On the technical side, our landline service (free) is powered by Twilio and our mobile product is available in both app stores (14 day free trial, $2 bucks a month after that). We're a PHP/Laravel shop and our team is completely remote.
To do the actual detection, our algorithm analyzes over 70M calls per month and adds over 1,300 new numbers to the blacklist every day. We built the world's largest commercial telephony honeypot (300k+ lines) and can detect new attacks within minutes of them starting (even with spoofed numbers). Just last month, Nomorobo stopped over 27 million from reaching people's phones.
I'm happy to answer any other questions that you have about robocalls. I'm kind of the "robocall guy". I won the FTC Robocall challenge back in 2013 and grew Nomorobo to be the leading robocall blocker on the market. I've even testified in front of the US Senate about the robocall epidemic.
Track them down and sue them in small claims court. I’ve collected nearly $10,000 doing this. Short story: calling your cell phone with automated dialing equipment and automated messaging (“press 1 to talk to someone”) is illegal per the TCPA. I’m not a lawyer but it’s fun to be amateur attorney for a day. Definitely a time suck though...
Since I made that post, the system has filtered 100% of the spammers and 0% of my actual contacts. I think the non-bot spammers started to get sick of hearing my audio prompt because the number of spam calls that come in has dropped dramatically.
[1] https://andrewchidden.com/defeating-spam-callers-with-speech...
Founder of Nomorobo here. We put a stop to all of those annoying robocalls, telemarketers, and spam/scam calls and texts. It's about the only thing that works nowadays. It's not your imagination - these types of calls are out of control. According to our data, 40% of all calls made in the US are illegal, unwanted spam/scam robocalls. And those "neighbor" spoofed calls (same area code and extension) are especially pre…
You're blocking 1300 numbers a day. I assume the spammers rotate numbers, so if someone gets a recycled number that was on your list, what happens?
These spammers get connected to the telephone system somehow. Is there nothing that can be done to force the telecom providers to more carefully check the companies they lease mass lines to?
I tried your service before, but the calls spoofed as if they come from my area code and exchange were never blocked. Why is that?
Spam calls infuriate me like little else. I'm glad you're working to stop them but it seems to be something that will require a larger industry and/or government intervention.
Thanks for sharing any insight you have!