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Report Phone Spam – Shut down robocallers and text spammers
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#192Years ago, I switched my home "land line" to a VOIP service provider. This provider allows you to build a simple set of actions which will occur when a call comes in. Mine works like this: Is the call from a fax machine? If yes, take the fax and send the fax to my e-mail. If no, move to the next step. Is the call from a number that's on my whitelist? If yes, ring my phone. If no, move to the next step. Play a recordi…
That's a simple phone CAPTCHA that can stop robocalls, but human spammers can easily bypass it, so you likely don't get such calls.
I think just sending all calls to voicemail and urging callers to leave a message if it's important should stop all spam. No human spammer will want you to call them back, and most of their numbers are spoofed, so you couldn't anyway.
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#194I've been reporting spam calls and texts to the FCC for a few years now. Does it do anything? I don't know, certainly not immediately, and the problem persists. I tried the method spelled out here for my latest batch of "Your USPS package has arrived" texts, but the phone numbers (example: +63 936 631 6676) just give an "invalid number" response. Not unexpected. Every official channel seems to be failing us on this o…
I disagree with the posted page that the telecoms are interested in stopping spam. If they really cared, they would have addressed it by now. I suspect they are somehow making money from the spam callers.
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#195"People still use phones?" For my social circle, phones have become fax machines -- archaic tech that you forget exists until required for some abnormal situation. My pocket computer's "phone" reference feels quaint, like those floppy disk icons on save buttons; except disk drives aren't so persistently, actively detrimental to my day that I must disable them. So now, all unknown callers are automatically ignored. If…
Are you young enough that most of your friends don’t have children yet?
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did the school at least leave a legit voicemail? (Curious)
Yeah, I don’t get people complaining about important missed calls. Yeah, I may miss these occasionally, but I see them almost immediately if they leave a voicemail — and they should, if it’s important — and then call them back, and apologize for the missed call, which they always empathize with. I lose at most a minute or two, which is totally acceptable.
I think this is cultural. I've never ever left a voice message, and never will. I've also never received one, the few I get are robocallers not understanding no one picked up.
If you want me to pick up, send an sms explaining what it's about.
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#197I've been reporting spam calls and texts to the FCC for a few years now. Does it do anything? I don't know, certainly not immediately, and the problem persists. I tried the method spelled out here for my latest batch of "Your USPS package has arrived" texts, but the phone numbers (example: +63 936 631 6676) just give an "invalid number" response. Not unexpected. Every official channel seems to be failing us on this o…
I disagree with the posted page that the telecoms are interested in stopping spam. If they really cared, they would have addressed it by now. I suspect they are somehow making money from the spam callers.
In some cases it definitely seems to be the carriers making money.
I’ve never really had any issues at all with SMS spam in the UK and Europe - but I’m currently in Thailand where it’s awful! When you buy a new SIM card at the airport, the spamming starts within an hour or so. I count 18 sent yesterday alone, once every hour or so during the day.
I believe it is actually the carrier (true.th) sending them as they all follow a similar format and seem to arrive with a somewhat predictable regularity.
They even have an automated number (*137) you can call and supposedly turn off spam, but it doesn’t work: “System will cancel spam SMS within 24 hour. Thank you for using!”. Yeah right.
Only solution on iOS seems to be to disable notifications for SMS from unknown senders in System Settings. Then, at least, they only annoy you when you actually look at the messages app.
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#198I get spam calls and texts every day, interestingly now the spam even reached my whatsapp and telegram, although most of it is text and calls. The texts and calls are always from a different number. So what I did: I disabled calls entirely. At this point people only call me on whatsapp so it hasn’t been an issue in the last few years. Text is annoying because people in the US still use it instead of whatsapp so I can’t disable it completely.
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#199I got a spam call seemingly “from Verizon” (their main number) on my Verizon phone. I called them and told them and they said “oh yeah that happens all the time don’t pick up when we call” That’s when I realized we’ll never win. The spammers have won.
Just disable all calls. That’s what I do. Real people call you on whatsapp or other similar apps.
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#200My solution since 2002: don't answer the phone.
^ this. In iOS you can disable them entirely which is what I’ve done for years now.