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Verizon Launches Free Version of Call Filter Service for Blocking Spam Calls
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Those in the US should just use Google Voice as their phone number to be spread around, and then you can easily treat your calls like your email.
It will save your real number from being exposed, and it makes things much simpler if you need to change your main number since everybody only knows your Google Voice number.
It will save your real number from being exposed, and it makes things much simpler if you need to change your main number since everybody only knows your Google Voice number.
you can help them build their AI for free (through the report "feature") but if you want their full effort to stop the spam call epidemic since they haven't yet stopped spoofing that will cost you $2.99/mo *eyeroll*
I went to get it. Verizon tells me my device, iPhone XS Max, is incompatible and can not use the service.
I am having issues with Dual Sim and this app. The number I want to use it on (personal line) is the physical SIM, but the app installed and is covering the E-Sim line with no obvious way to change over.
I'm in the UK, here, its built into the handset on my landline.
If anyone not on my whitelist calls, including no ID calls, they get a call screening message to leave a short message saying who you are. If someone does, my phone then rings, I get their message "It's John, your dentist" and I get the option to accept once, accept and whitelist, reject, reject and block.
Auto dialled calls don't leave messages, so my phone never rings, real spam callers seem to give up at the point and don't leave a message, so again I never know they called. It works incredibly well. I'm surprised Apple or someone hasn't brought the tech to mobiles.
I never answer unknown numbers. If it's someone who genuinely needs to speak with me, then they leave a voicemail.
I will say, though, that I don't have children or otherwise dependent family members. My friends who are parents have to pick up EVERY call because an unknown number could be a teacher, school, parent of the kid's friend, etc., and they simply must make sure it's not an urgent call. I can't imagine having to answer every single spam and nonsense call I receive! Some days, I get 10 or more.
I will say, though, that I don't have children or otherwise dependent family members. My friends who are parents have to pick up EVERY call because an unknown number could be a teacher, school, parent of the kid's friend, etc., and they simply must make sure it's not an urgent call. I can't imagine having to answer every single spam and nonsense call I receive! Some days, I get 10 or more.
We do have a regulatory body. That is not the problem. The issue is that it is impossible to regulate someone dialing a phone number. If you want to call me, do you have to go to the government to get permission to do it?
Nope, the few friends of mine who have tried, keep getting a not connected to network message. It wasn't working with the previous versions of Call Filter either for those with ESIM, so who knows if they'll ever support it.
Same for me, on an iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR (as well as a few of my co-workers, two of which actually pay the 2.99 fee). Theirs was working fine until the update yesterday, and afterwards we're all getting the endless "enter your phone number" loop. Verizon seems useless in trying to tell them what's going on.
None of our devices are using ESIM (if they were they'd get a different message saying not connected to the network). We did get it working with zero issues on our iPhone X, and iPhone 8 however, so it seems it's only the XS, XS Max, and XR (though some have reported it working for them on those devices too).
Don't bother with the website. It told me my XS wasn't compatible. Downloaded the app and set it up, nae problemo.
"Verizon, one of the four major cellular carriers in the United States, today announced the launch of a new free version of its Call Filter service that will identify, filter, and block incoming spam phone calls."
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A co-worker who is using ESIM is, it isn't supported (and wasn't with the previous version) on devices with ESIM, which makes no sense.
T-Mobile has had this for a long time now. You would think with as many spam calls as there are, filling up the carriers network, they would want a way to mark spam numbers and disallow them. i.e. after a spam call you dial *25 (or some number) and it would block the call from ever coming to you again, and if enough people block it, it blocks the number from everyone.
same here. all my contacts have a ringer. my default ringer for non-contacts is a silent ringer. so i won't even hear it ring. i'm not that important (thankfully) to where i need to answer random numbers.
i've won numerous of free cruises, the FBI and IRS are going to submit a warrant for my arrest and i need to pay my taxes. I have a virus on my home computer and my iCloud has been compromised (based on the spam voicemails). most of the time att call protect does a good job filtering out the obvious ones.
If the "do not call registry" were enforced, we wouldn't have these issues. These are US companies with call centers that do nothing other than blow up phones all day, and tracking the spoofed numbers is next to impossible.
I think the carriers should be able to detect a spoofed VOIP number. There should be an option to block no-caller-id callers and callers that are suspected of spoofing.
I get 10 calls a day between my two phones, and it's not going to improve unless the carriers step in and help.
I think the carriers should be able to detect a spoofed VOIP number. There should be an option to block no-caller-id callers and callers that are suspected of spoofing.
I get 10 calls a day between my two phones, and it's not going to improve unless the carriers step in and help.
She should have called it a Freemium product. Verizon should be giving away the full product to all customers. They will make up for it with all the add on fees they charge.