[EarlyTrekker]

Yup! With a smartphone and spam filtering if you choose voice or text the other is a gimme nowadays.
(usually bundled and goes without sayin)

But I suspect Elmer wants names. i.e. what filter are you using or AT&T is bundling (the easy part). And what cost strings are attached? i.e. Included with your bundle, Free for 12 months then 9.95 per month etc.

Spam filtering isn’t “built-in“ to either OS.

 

[chandler48]

Spam filtering isn’t “built-in“ to either OS.

Must be AT&T. No bundle to have it. It just happens.

 

[EarlyTrekker]

https://about.att.com/pages/cyberaware/ae/robocall#:~:text=We%20block%20billions%20of%20unwanted,manage%20nuisance%20calls%20and%20more

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[chandler48]

THAT'S what I have. AT&T ActiveArmor℠ mobile security app

 

[Elmer-Dallas Texas]

I had gone to google to look for info and found too much. Then I went to my phone and clicked on the Tmobile app and found ScamShield. Free and easy. Now I will have to see if it works. Gee I wish I had done this years ago.

 

[EarlyTrekker]

Yup. Looks serious. 😳 DIY Chatroom dependency. 😵‍💫Try 2 Ducks next time and resist the urge of a reply post to this message.

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[Elmer-Dallas Texas]

The free Tmobile app ScamShield isn't exactly what I wanted but it is an improvement over the alternative. I would prefer requiring # input.
Most cell blocking apps may block legitimate calls 📞. For instance my bank will be blocked with ScamShield but probably worth that small risk versus getting all automated call.

 

[Deja-vue]

I haven't used a landline in about 15 years. Soon to be eliminated by our government, anyways.
No more need for it. Get used to it.
Cheers,

 

[digitalplumber]

We recently did away with our landline since ATT is moving towards all digital lines anyway. I moved the line to my cell phone as a e sim second line, via Pure talk for 20.00 a month. I was paying over 75.00 to ATT for it. Now I have it everywhere and the iPhone feature that sends callers not in you contact list straight to voice mail, has essentially silenced it.

Now if the service providers would do something with the spam text messages!

 

[CaptTom]

I have to say, spam calls and texts are way down over the past year or so. Between my carrier's blocking (Google Fi) and the government requiring carriers to block spoofed numbers, I don't get more than a couple per week, if that. I haven't had a land line in well over a decade.

What I have seen lately is a sharp increase in e-mail spam, after going a long time with almost none. I assume that's because it's been blocked upstream. But now, every few days there's a "burst" of up to 50 e-mails from a randomly-named domain. Some are the usual boner pills and car warrantees, but a large number of them claim that I've won some name-brand tool or product from some legitimate business. Of course I never win anything, and besides, I didn't enter any contest, so I know it's BS. Most of them go to the spam folder, but occasionally one makes it through.

I'm guessing the spammers queue up a few billion e-mails, then register a new domain and blast them all out before the domain can be flagged by the ISPs. Then repeat the cycle every few days.

 

[digitalplumber]

I have to say, spam calls and texts are way down over the past year or so. Between my carrier's blocking (Google Fi) and the government requiring carriers to block spoofed numbers, I don't get more than a couple per week, if that. I haven't had a land line in well over a decade.

What I have seen lately is a sharp increase in e-mail spam, after going a long time with almost none. I assume that's because it's been blocked upstream. But now, every few days there's a "burst" of up to 50 e-mails from a randomly-named domain. Some are the usual boner pills and car warrantees, but a large number of them claim that I've won some name-brand tool or product from some legitimate business. Of course I never win anything, and besides, I didn't enter any contest, so I know it's BS. Most of them go to the spam folder, but occasionally one makes it through.

I'm guessing the spammers queue up a few billion e-mails, then register a new domain and blast them all out before the domain can be flagged by the ISPs. Then repeat the cycle every few days.

I see that with my swbell.net email that ATT uses YAHOO to facilitate. Additionally, the YAHOO filters do not work. One day none, the next day I've won: tool kits, windows, trips etc. All very obvious spam caught one day, let through the next.

I have a seldom used old hotmail account. That account never pushes through spam, it all and accurately goes into the junk folder.

 

[Calson]

We use a similar Panasonic phone set along with the Digitone ProSeries call blocker. With the Digitone we can block all calls where caller ID is disabled or calling from specific area codes.