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Spam calls from telemarketers

Post inspired from another post. What is your method to deal with spam calls? What I have tried and it worked well for me: Get Android phone. Get Truecaller. Block all calls not in the phone book. Do this for a month. All callers will find your number unresponsive and remove you from calling lists. If you are expecting unknown calls like Swiggy/Zomato/Amazon, unblock momentarily till the delivery. Your number has been public. Your telecom sells it, bank sells it, Universities sell it, discoms sells it. Your number is sold as soon as you buy a new SIM from a telecom. If there's a buyer, even you wud sell your number for a good price. Weird world. Even TRAI is useless and doesn't execute fines plus the onus is on you to complain and report via a stupid needless form for every spam. In India, Truecaller is a 99% good solution.I know some friends in sales & call centers who mentioned they don't wanna waste effort & time with non-converting leads. So they update their calling lists & non-responsive numbers are filtered out. So every 6mo, I block all unknown numbers and monitor my spams. Worked well.

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Gems_Bond

Stealth

8 months ago

I wait for Truecaller to first display the caller name. If the banner is red, caller in most cases is a red flag. ⛳ Has worked pretty well so far.
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majboormajdoor

Stealth

8 months ago

Did that before. I don't generally receive calls from unsaved nos, only from delivery guys and cabs. That's my case. So I blocked all nos as default. Unblock them whenever I am expecting some calls.
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upscvet

BYJU'S

8 months ago

I have two phones. One with the number I have stupidly given out over the past few years. I have true caller on that and I don't answer 99% calls on that.
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TrustyGeek25

Stealth

8 months ago

I get almost 7-8 calls from hathway (wifi) daily. I use an iPhone please tell me how can I block only spam calls not all unknown calls.
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majboormajdoor

Stealth

8 months ago

Apple has a auto voicemail system in the US. Hopefully it will come to India soon. Else Apple is brutal that they don't allow third party solutions. Doesnt happen with Android though. Even if Truecaller fucks up, some better alternative will pop up
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BladeRunner007

Fintech Startup

8 months ago

Hathway few days back got hacked and all their customer data is for sale.
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AGentleGiant

Tatvasoft

8 months ago

Truecaller is the only way out for me. I use iPhone. Most of the times Truecaller identifies spam while the phone is ringing. Sometimes it doesn’t, so I let the call go into missed calls list, and then check on Truecaller - if it sounds safe then I call back. Used to report to TRAI earlier but the volume has increased so much and not much benefit by reporting to TRAI, so I report on Truecaller these days, much better outcome of doing that 😊
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