I believe Google recently released something similar for Android.

These calls are spam for phones. Certainly, there's an obvious pattern that can be identified and then neutralized.

Does this work for the sweepstakes type scams where they try to induce the elderly send money for a fabulous prize they supposedly won? Just curious in general how they ID a scam?

Job seekers and those with medically needy relatives are among those who cannot tolerate any false positive especially if calls are entirely rejected and cannot even leave a voicemail.

I hope it works... it's kinda terrifying that getting no scam calls for 2 days is significant!

I have a test/dev phone that I used for a project several years ago with an associated ph#. I forgot about it (don't think about the charges accrued 8^) for several years, but just charged it and turned it on.

It's a number that was never used or answered for 3 years and it gets several scam calls a day. They must be calling every valid number.

I didn't realize they had added the block feature too, nice! Just went and enabled that