Re: OT: spam phone calls

On 3/21/25 9:32 AM, micky wrote:

In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:23:42 -0400, Newyana2
<newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:
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On 3/21/2025 8:51 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:
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Unfortunately, as they are faking the caller-id number, and they rotate their numbers, you are probably blocking some innocent person, and not really blocking the spammers. That said, I also block them.
 

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    The chance that a number from Columbus, Ohio is a
real person trying to reach me personally is pretty much
zero. Even with the local numbers, a legit caller is very
unlikely.
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  This approach is not like what you're describing, blocking
a large list of blacklisted numbers. I just get the call and
wait if I don't recognize the number. If they leave no
message, then I block it. If they leave a message, I pick
up and apologize for screening. They invariably chuckle and
say they understand.
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  I haven't found that scammers are rotating through real
numbers. they seem to use thesame ones repeatedly.
Sometimes they spoof, but often it's things like salespeople
using an actual phone. The same number might call several
times per day. So blocking just a few numbers works well
in my experience. I also set my phone for a silent first
ring, so if someone is blocked I don't even have to know it.
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(This is on my landline phone/answering machine. I don't
know about cellphones. I don't turn on my Android phone
often enough to care about scam calls. And I don't give out
that number, so I don't check messages.)

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You're a lot like me.   I use my landline 95% of the time.  I only turn
on the cell when I go out, and not even always then.   Only 4 pople have
my cellphone number and 3 of them have probably lost it. (When I was
visiting my brother, a friend of his, his wife, and his son, all called
me, but they called me on my home phone, not my cell!  And didn't get
the messages until I got home. ) >
When the one person who I do want to be able to call me on the cell
calls, and I get home, I hang up and call her back on the landline,
because the sound is better. >
I do use NOMOROBO for the landline (where it is free) and sometimes
calls ring once.  That usually means nomorobo has forwarded them to the
great beyond.

I used to use Nomorobo. The (gasp) paid version. Then I found something even
 better. I got rid of my landline...