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0 pointsdvtrn6y ago0 comments

3 a day? Last week I got six in the span of 93 MINUTES.

They all matched the area code and prefix of my number but the last four were always different. Block one another calls 12 minutes later.

I’ve had this number for 13 years, have ported it across carriers and it’s long been known by friends and family as the default way to find me. This problem was a mild nuisance years ago. It’s a plague now.

It may be time to finally give it up.

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cstejerean6y ago

I block just about every number from the area code my phone number is in. I haven’t lived there in that area for a long time and 100% of the calls were spam. One day the spammers will wise up and use the area code where I live rather than where my phone is based but so far Number Shield has worked out great for blocking entire prefixes.

cbsks6y ago

Number Shield looks brilliant! I get a lot of spam calls from my area code and three number prefix. I don’t have any legitimate contacts with a phone number like that, so blocking the whole range looks like a good solution.

However, I don’t expect any urgent calls from anyone outside of my contacts so I was able to fix the problem by enabling iOS’s Silence Unknown Callers feature.

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