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0 pointssethammons5y ago0 comments

I found a novel solution by accident to this. I moved to a new area but kept my old number. 99% of my spam calls are from my phone’s area code. If you are not a contact and a number comes up from that area code, it is spam. If it is my new area code, it is a person or business trying to reach me.

You could likely get a far off area coded number.

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acheron5y ago

Same (though "I moved to a new area" happened in 2004). At this point I've just blocked the entire old area code and neighboring ones, aside from existing contacts.

derwiki5y ago

Yea ignoring unknown numbers from my home state is fairly effective at blocking spam calls.

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