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Spam calls and texts are driving me fing crazy anyone have suggestions? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by catch22 to c/[email protected]

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After repeated data breaches that no company really seems to give a s--- about my phone is blowing up with literally hundreds of spam calls and texts month. I get and make MAAAAYBE 2 or 3 important calls per month, 180-200 of the rest are literally all spam. Anyone have any suggestions, apps ect that they have found refuge with? I really don't use SMS that much either, mostly it's via signal, discord whats app, ect...

Just to put it out there I run CalyxOS on a Pixel 5a.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you don't want spam calls stop answering numbers you don't recognize.

I never answer calls from the area code my phone number is from because they are all spam. I haven't even lived in that area for years. But I still get 3 a day. I can't even remember the last time I answered one. 2, maybe 3 years ago? I still get them, though.

Edit: I just checked, and I am enrolled in Verizon's call filter thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you are still getting that many and sometimes more, I would suggest exactly what I did to OP in another comment. Get a new number. Grab one from GV, number barn, etc that hasn't been used in awhile. Alternatively move your current number (if you want to keep it long term) and get a new direct number.

I have my main number on GV, I've had it for over a decade. I ported it to GV from tmo about that long ago. I grew up in Florida so just because I got a 727 area code for my personal direct line, I moved that sim to my work phone when I moves to having 2 phones. That number gets like 5 calls a week if that and they are mostly from house flippers trying to lowball me on a property I don't own nor have ever seen. The other ones are political bs. My current personal direct line is a local number and that one gets literally zero spam calls, a few texts but nowhere near the insanity that some people deal with. I have no idea how many calls or texts are being blocked by tmo now.

I'll repeat. If you are getting a shit storm of spam and turning on the carrier level protection doesn't help, it's time for a new number. I responded up top level because OP was being obstinate and saying that a new number was pointless because it had been used by deadbeats (paraphrasing here) without seeing the irony in that statement.