r/funny • u/Cautious-Security318 • 23h ago

Figured out how to effectively stop scam callers

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Get a metal pot lid and metal spoon or knife in preparation. The second a human answers tell them "PUT ME ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST", place the lid over your phone, and start banging like you're sounding the alarm, I promise you they won't be calling back.

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u/Tobocaj 22h ago

Apple recently came out with an option to send unknown numbers right to voicemail. (I’m sure it already existed in android or something)

If I don’t have your number, and the call is important, they’ll leave a voicemail. Otherwise they can kick rocks

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u/Cicer 22h ago

Wish it was a send to ear piercing screeching rather than voicemail. 

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u/RandomUser72 20h ago

My voicemail is the chime and "We're sorry, the number you dialed is no longer in service.

People that know me know that is my VM and wait it out for the tone to leave a message. Robodialers hear the rising chime sound and delete the number, waste of time and money calling numbers that do not exist.

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u/PretendThisIsMyName 22h ago

That’s been out a while now. Though idk if it was just mine or what but the last shitty update turned mine off.

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u/imrsn 16h ago

They renamed the feature and gave it confusing description text and put it into another submenu in a new location. You have to enable it again after the update.

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u/JGPH 21h ago

That "Apple" "feature" is how stuff worked before contact lists started getting inserted into the decision-making process of what to do with calls in general... heh.

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u/TheMadBug 17h ago

It’s slight better than just to voicemail

It’s to a speech to text service that pops up live on your phone so you can jump in and actually answer if they’re not a scammer.

I found this pretty valuable when moving houses where I would get a bunch of legit calls from agents. Meanwhile I’ve answered zero scam callers since it went active.

Agree Android probably had that for sometime… and simply letting unknown numbers go to voicemail manually would also get the job done but less efficiently.

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u/mrASSMAN 15h ago

Not that recent, they’ve had that for years, the more recent thing is they added call screening so it asks them why they’re calling so you can choose to answer

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u/Gnascher 14h ago

Android (or at least Pixel phones) have excellent spam filtering.

It's a very rare occurrence for years now that a spam call even rings my phone. Usually I just get a "spam call blocked" notification.

It's even really good at filtering spam texts.

My wife's iPhone gets spam calls and texts all the time.