Blocking spam and scam calls is one of the most requested features for most phone users. It seems that there is not a single person left who would not be faced with a call from a fake employee trying to extort important details. Or with spam calls from inefficient managers trying to sell another piece of junk to a person on the phone.
You can get rid of all this scam with the help of special tools designed to block incoming calls from spammers and scammers of all kinds. Next, we will analyze the most popular utilities from this category.
Apps to block unwanted calls
First, let’s talk about programs that not only know about intruders but can automatically filter out such calls.
Truecaller
One of the most popular android spam blocking apps. The utility has existed for quite a long time and managed to win the trust of users, as well as noticeably replenish the database with scammers from all over the planet.
Originally TrueCaller was created as a utility for BlackBerry back in 2009. Over the 12 years of its existence, it has saved thousands of users from unwanted calls and quite effectively blocked the attempts of scammers to cash in on mere mortals.
The utility is distributed by subscription. That is, you will have to pay at least 2 dollars a month in order to fully use it. But you can save money by paying for the year in advance.
Hiya
Another tool that can not only identify an impressive part of scammers by phone number but also automatically block calls from them by sending a busy signal to the caller.
Hiya, like TrueCaller, uses its own database. This is both good and bad at the same time.
The app is available for free for both iPhone and Android devices. But here it is important to understand that free cheese is only in a mousetrap and, most likely, Hiya sells your data to advertisers to earn money. So you are protecting yourself from one category of spammers and scammers, but dooming yourself to being attacked by others.
GetContactÂ
The once extremely popular application still does its job perfectly.
If you are not aware, then the essence of GetContact was that all users of the application merged the data of people from their contacts into a single database. And not only numbers but also how these contacts are signed.
Therefore, using GetContact, it was easy to find out how you are subscribed from other people, as well as find out similar information about any number in general. So, most likely, if you send the number to GetContact, you will get much more interesting information about the subscriber than from banks and telecom operators.
System tools
Recently, iOS has the ability to automatically cut off all calls from unknown numbers. To enable it:
- Open the iPhone system settings,
- Go to the phone section
- Turn on the toggle switch “silence unknown callers”.
After that, you will no longer receive call alerts from any numbers that are not listed in your contacts.
Android has a similar feature. You just need to turn on the do not disturb mode and add the contact list to the exceptions so that even in the Do Not Disturb mode, calls from known subscribers go through.
Conclusion
That’s all. Be careful and try not to leave your phone number, email address, name and other data anywhere. Check apps and web resources carefully. Use services for receiving SMS and activating applications, and get additional SIM cards. In general, take action against spam and scammers in advance. But if it didn’t work out, then we hope that the applications described above will help in this unequal struggle.
