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Arthur · 4 answers · 3d

There are some scammers who pretend they're a random bank warning about some fictitious high value purchases to get our banking details. I usually ask them for money and they hang up, but today they've called me 4 times using different numbers. It's getting annoying, so how can I make them stop?

for the future it's best not to answer if at all possible, because they cast a wide net of numbers to call... now they know that your number is a valid/working number somebody answers so they hammer it hard...you can block as you go...depending on where you live, there might be a do not call registry or some equivalent where you can report the caller to your government if they continue to call after they are added to that registry...these calls usually pass if they aren't getting anywhere though

Can you forward incoming calls to another number? In that case use the number of the phone company?

On my phone I block all incoming calls from numbers not in my contacts.
But if you can't do that, there's an app called TrueCaller which is supposed to block spam calls. For a monthly fee you can get a constantly updated blacklist, but I think you can block fewer spam calls for free. I stopped using it because I was still getting too many spam calls.

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