¿ªÔÆÌåÓý?I¡¯m tiring of having to delete obvious incoming spam phone calls manually. First, I¡¯m not even sure that ALL this incoming stuff is genuinely illegal (for example, calls from people or entities whose advertising is based on robocalls). While I doubt that I¡¯d EVER be interested in what they¡¯re marketing, but it could be genuine products or services, with only the blanket advertising itself the unscrupulous effort, because it¡¯s so cheap for them to implement.¡°Block this caller¡± is of little use, because their autodialers will just make the next outgoing call from a different-by-one-digit number. The ¡°verified by carrier¡± flag is of no help either, because I¡¯m getting an increasing number of calls marked (accurately) as ¡°possible spam¡± even though the calls carry the ¡°verified by carrier¡± checkmark. I¡¯ve tried opening the phone app and responding with either just a ¡°reject call¡± screen tap or with a message that says I¡¯ll not answer unless the caller leaves an identifying message (the latter, of course, may just alert a scammer that there¡¯s a REAL target at the end of his equipment¡¯s automated outgoing call). Sometimes when I do this i DO generate voicemail, but virtually always what gets saved on my phone is just the last little bit of the message, which might say something like ¡°(a synthesized voice phone number to call back)¡± and ¡°have a great rest of your day.¡± I have NO idea whether I¡¯m helping my case even a little ?by tapping the ¡°block this caller¡± feature (it MIGHT help, if the spammer¡¯s automated equipment were intelligent enough to compile a database of called numbers that repetitively reject its automated calls from ?randomly or programmatically created bogus outgoing numbers, but I have NO idea whether that¡¯s the case or not. Ideally, I¡¯d have a solution that wouldn¡¯t require me to do ANYTHING actively. Automatically rejecting every single call that doesn¡¯t come from someone in my contacts list won¡¯t work, because I still have need to establish new business contacts or receive calls from people who have multiple numbers themselves. Some days I get NONE of this nonsense; other days it could be as many as a few DOZEN calls. Sometimes calls from the same exchange and slightly different 4 digit number come in staccato fashion over the course of just seconds between them, almost as rapidly as I can delete them or refuse to answer Is there any data that suggests one or another carrier has better-than-its-competitors tools to protect me from even receiving the calls? My guess would be that the carriers might be at risk if their screening tools prevented me from receiving a genuine call that I needed, so I don¡¯t have much hope for that as an algorithmic solution. Thanks for ANY helpful advice!
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Jim Robertson |
