I get at least 5 spam calls a day. It is rediculous. I have definetly noticed it getting worse this year.

@moon_lyrics

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@vodili67

5 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@RobertC6661

4 жыл бұрын

Lucky you. I get 5 every half hour

@bragebondevik

4 жыл бұрын

TKII378 feel u bro, I cant listen to Music in peace in 10 min bc they call me 24/7

@RobertC6661

4 жыл бұрын

brage bondevik I can’t even work. My job requires me to have my phone on

This one scammer called me and he told me that I’m in debt to some bank. I’m 12 years old and I don’t even have a bank account lol

@sumiixdeimos

3 жыл бұрын

SAME LMAO I GOT ONE FROM CONGA BRAZZAVILLE TODAY AND THEY TOLD ME THE SAME THING EVEN THO IM ALSO 12 AND I DONT EVEN LIVE THERE

@spreadinchrist4029

3 жыл бұрын

They told me I was in dept with a car lol

@NR20244

3 жыл бұрын

Some little Scottish kids called my dad and they were like LeT mE sPeAk tO uR mAnAgEr when my dad doesn’t even work for anything and he was at home lmao

@queenqueen594

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao. I swear I got asked something similar. They asked me if I needed to clear my debt. Like I was 18 at the time tf

@jamaalharris3737

3 жыл бұрын

@@queenqueen594 I got that call today. It was so random😐

I used to mess with them by seeing how long I could keep them on the line. Stuff like giving a made up credit card number and pretending the phone keeps cutting out or saying he had a number wrong when he repeated it back. Long story short, I started getting like 15x more calls

@pinguinobc

5 жыл бұрын

I used to have fun messing with them when it was real people calling. Now it's just a recording instructing you to call another number to talk to "an agent."

@mrblackz8291

4 жыл бұрын

I once played the John Cena intro on the scammer

@jg726

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, I've been getting about 50 phone calls every hour, got a call blocker now

@thencarolinaman1934

2 жыл бұрын

@@jg726 What blocker did you get and is it still working?

what we need is a phone that can block all calls except your contacts! now that is the phone i want!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@andykay8949

5 жыл бұрын

You can do that with any smartphone "Do Not Disturb" feature. But you are not going to receive any calls from the courier delivering your package, or your bank telling you your card has been blocked, or your doctors reception telling you what test results came in, and so on...

@1drhnsd1

5 жыл бұрын

You can sort of do that - set your default ringtone to "no ring." If you don't have that option, find a "silent" ringtone and download it for your phone - make it the default. Now go into your contacts and manually assign a normal ringtone for them. That's what I did. Unwanted callers can still leave voicemail - but at least they can't make your phone ring (I use an iphone).

@hallofjames43327

5 жыл бұрын

Fazmx bruh on everything

@tomikun8057

5 жыл бұрын

Use blocking mode lmao and put all ur numbers

@thumbtak123

4 жыл бұрын

There is apps to do this, like callapp or youmail.

Dude some scammer called me during class and I got my phone taken away for the whole day

@snappback18

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂 damn

@ihavetacosdownhere9627

4 жыл бұрын

Lol same thing happened with my friend. We were in the meanest teacher's class taking a test and he started getting a robo call.

@theramsey9123

4 жыл бұрын

The same happened with me

@TheRealTact

4 жыл бұрын

💀

@journeythroughtherails5294

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr like HOW DARE YOU 😂

I get at least one scam call an hour. My whole family started getting these when our phone plan ended and we had to sign a new contract to get one. We are convinced that our network provider is selling our numbers.

@streetyboy6910

3 жыл бұрын

Who is it. Myn is ER

@streetyboy6910

3 жыл бұрын

EE I mean

I think these call blocking apps sell our numbers to spam callers

@cas932

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@matoflynn

4 жыл бұрын

bingo

@hiddengemz955

4 жыл бұрын

Mohit Arya 😂😂😂😂😂

@midnightsnack1306

4 жыл бұрын

Mohit Arya possible

@JaidenPlaysGames.

3 жыл бұрын

They do.

Don't answer calls from numbers you don't know.

@hiddengemz955

4 жыл бұрын

Movie matics obviously but no one want to keep receiving calls while you’re using your phone

@meiji9720

3 жыл бұрын

It’s not a easy matter for some older demographic as they answer anything that’s local...

@justinalmorado7276

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter if you ignore or answer them, they keep calling

@williampennjr.4448

3 жыл бұрын

That's not an answer since the call will go to voicemail.

The problem I find is that I have been receiving calls (which I don't answer) and they happen to have almost the same number as mine. The first 6 digits are the same as my phone number. I can go ahead and block the number, but what good is it if I need to receive an actual call from someone locally. Obviously the robocaller is spoofing the number to make it seem familiar so that I answer it.

@CannabisUseOnly

6 жыл бұрын

same here

@UEGGOTH

6 жыл бұрын

I am having the exact same problem and have been ever since I got this number a few months ago. I used to only have like 6 numbers blocked in 10 years when I had my old number but, I looked at the list yesterday and I am now at 45. Registering on the do not call list has done nothing. Since I am new to where I live, I always answer my phone when it’s in my area just in case it’s something important but, I’m gonna have them send a voicemail instead from now on. Also, after about two weeks using the same 6 digits, they changed one number on it.

@dutrank1591

6 жыл бұрын

It’s always the same first 3 digits for me. I even got a call from my own phone number not too long ago lol.

@hightechgeek

6 жыл бұрын

Same here. I got a call from my own number once too! Obviously blocking can't help with this. How are the spammers technically doing this? It seems to have just started a few years ago. Can't the phone companies stop phone number spoofing? It seems like it should be easy. I don't remember phone number spoofing being a problem in the past.

@PsychoPixy222

5 жыл бұрын

Try Call Control, by Call Control LLC in google play store. It has quite a few options of different types of blocking (including the spoof of your area code + first 3 digits). Just now downloaded it myself so no idea as to if it's good or not, but least might be worth looking into.

Love the editing in this video super well produced and informative

How do you handle spam calls?

@siyacer

6 жыл бұрын

Hang up.

@uss_04

6 жыл бұрын

By not putting my name, email and phone number in those stupid “Enter to win a Free Car” boxes at shopping malls in 2006

@Lastman10101

6 жыл бұрын

The Verge love this series

@YoSomePerson

6 жыл бұрын

Living in a country with proper data protection laws. Never received a spam call in my life.

@TheJOPAH

6 жыл бұрын

In Mexico there is a big problem with people in jail calling to scam, most of the times I don't answer but if I do I will usually just breath heavily or play weird metal songs until they hung up. And then call the national extortion service where they should cut the service of the scammer if there is enough complaints.

Thank you Verge, this was really useful. :)

Awesome content, can't wait for more of this!

thank you for putting this out there for us!!

I love this series. Keep it up!

Great video, very useful thanks

Google's beta phone app for Android now has this feature built in natively. You just check an option that says "Filter suspected spam calls" and it will no longer allow spam calls to ring your phone. They still show up in call history as a missed call though so you can see how much it's happening, and unblock numbers that should not have been marked as spam.

Not only are the fake calls spoofing area codes, they're spoofing your *prefix* as well (the second group of three digits, which, in the days before computer-controlled phone back-ends, identified the exact telephone company local office your phone connected to) so it looks *VERY* local. Funny thing is, I know nobody with my same area code _and_ prefix. Makes it *REALLY* easy to just ignore those calls.

So how do you guys get the show info above the title of the video? (where it says 'WORKFLOW S1 - EP1')

Verge been doing some really good videos lately

So... your steps are. 1. Download an app that claims to stop robocalls while it actively sells your number to said robocallers. 2. Put your number on a list which is the other best resource that spam callers can use. How convenient that we all put our number on a single list for these people. 3. Ask your carrier if you can pay more money for them to do a service they should be doing for free.

@Chance57

6 жыл бұрын

State you sources on #1 son.

@psd993

6 жыл бұрын

Corey Kinard just register for true caller with some weird name and watch the telemarketing commence. Some of them would you kind enough to address you by the pseudonym that you used to register for truecaller and truecaller alone. That's how you know they are selling your data, or at the very least, have some sort of undiscovered data leak (which I find is very unlikely to go on for as long as it did, without them wising up to it)

@ralphlati4078

6 жыл бұрын

Which is why I stopped downloading third party apps whereever possible. On MIUI most of these features are built in. Especially things like call blocking. MIUI has this super advanced feature they call "Yellow Pages" that let's you flag robocallers and scammers. All these blocked calls get registered onto the Yellow Pages and get autoblocked for everybody on the OS. I went from getting dozens of these calls a day to maybe a couple a month which I immediately block so me and all my fellow MIUI users can't be bothered by them twice.

@danielb9699

4 жыл бұрын

@@psd993 that's actually a clever way to find out if the anti-robocall apps are selling your number

@mwmulv

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

I barely answer calls from people in my contacts list. It’s 2018, why do we still have just phone numbers?

So who else thinks these apps he suggested in the beginning are also a scam to sell your info/number? The apps need to have access to you phone app on your smartphone so I am mostly skeptical.

I got 10 calls in the last hour...

If I'm correct I believe TruCaller collects your phone number and your phones contacts and can then do what they please with it, like sell it to tellemarkers!

@ralphlati4078

6 жыл бұрын

It is becoming harder and harder to trust third party apps to do things like this because they might be taking your data and selling it off to make their profits. Even Google itself was caught doing that. That's why I switched to MIUI. The same kind of feature as TruCaller is built into the OS and they have an advanced call list feature where anybody on MIUI that flags a number as spam or something will send it to the list and get it blocked for everybody else on MIUI. I went from getting dozens of these calls a day to only a couple a month.

@lepermessiah2011

5 жыл бұрын

I wasn't sure if it was a coincidence but my spam calls multiplied when I installed that app. Good to know I'm not the only one this is happening to.

@pdfortune

5 жыл бұрын

Why would companies pay for your number from a company that blocks their calls? Some of you people are morons.

@andykay8949

5 жыл бұрын

Technically, yes correct, they do get access to your number and your phone book. They dont sell it, you are too cynical. I use Trucaller, my spam level went down 5 times. Not perfect but it helps.

Great a new series!! Edit: You can make a video on internet privacy & VPN for this new series.

So in the past half of the year I've gotten calls by numbers, that if I call back, its says don't exist. They only call for about 5 secs so I haven't managed to pick up yet. Different number each time but it always starts with +49 17

Great video. Thanks..

Do these stop the call or do they send the caller to voicemail? I have a Private caller and can not block them. It will send the call to voicemail and I want the call to me stopped before it gets sent to my phone.

man verge is on fire lately!!!great video!!

I definitely want to know more about this scam and I want to continue receiving from you the new ones plz keep me updated in this. I always receive scam callers and I have answered yes due to this I believe I have been taking money from my bank and then I get an overdraft it is very upsetting for me for I live on a fixed income and I don't mean to take a taxi to the bank every time to find out what is going on or what I am being charged for and not being able to be told if it was something that I ordered which I never order anything online or by phone I go shopping when I need to go shopping and I don't appreciate people taking advantage of others like myself. So yes I do need to keep informed of this scam alert thank you for sharing your video with us and I hope to see more updates on your videos

I get phone calls from random numbers but when I call back it just rings like they didn’t even call or there not at there phone at the moment but they literally just called what is this ? Maybe scammers calling from peoples phones ?

i used to use true caller, but it might be failure on ios. what about this??

I have been blocking spam text and they still get thru after there blocked is there anyway to stop them?

i barely receive span calls. is it because i’m on att?

Great video... This used to be a non issue but, today I get about 1 a day, and it's a real issue now. Today the calls look like real numbers since they appear to come from my fairly uncommon area code.

My office has a setup where you need to type an extension to get through to someone or leave a message. I check the log in the morning and see a bunch of junk calls that couldn’t push two digits to access anyone. I’d love my non business phones to be able to do this function

As a kansasn in virginia I love it when I have to call my friends twice thanks to my area code.

I love you verge :)

I live in the Netherlands and I never got a single spam call. Still, a great video by The Verge!

@JotaInu

Жыл бұрын

Lucky you

Make a list for recommended apps

Thank you!

Loved the graphics in this one

I love your videos and editing 🙂

These calls are so dangerous that anything can happen. Your voice can be used for identity theft purposes and hackers may want to steal your information. Ignore the calls or download apps to protect yourself.

I just declined a random number instead of ignoring it im scared will they spam call me more? Please answer my comment im really scared

I just turned on Do Not Disturb and only allow callers from my contacts. If i need to hear from someone i review my voicemails and recent calls. It has stopped the robo calls cold since robo calls rarely leave a message.

Do any of these spam call blocking apps mine your call data?

I have an answer for personal cell phone. I want a server block from my provider where I don't even see the blocked as a blocked or missed call. On cell device have the option to block ANY incoming call unless whitelisted. Outgoing calls made by device are auto whitelisted unless the user specifies otherwise.

thax bro so much informative.

I literally keep on getting calls and once I answer it, they would always ask me “is this Shannon?”

@H3llo_22

3 жыл бұрын

XD I got a message with a whole bunch of pictures, and then I said you got the wrong number and they just said “Is this Channon?” Lol watch it have been the same oerson

What if we by default blocked ALL incoming calls. The only calls that would actually ring on our phones would be the ones we have pre-selected. This would take a little work but no more than handling spam calls now. Friends/schools/companies could just define a number that they will use to call with. If we wanted to receive a call from them we would just setup that number in our phone. For instance, our kid's school number, or the pharmacy we get our prescriptions filled at, we would pre-select those numbers to go through. Then, anytime we get a call we know it is from someone we want calling us. If everyone did this, it would essentilly end spam calls. The key would be getting everyone on board with presenting a specific OUTBOUND CALLING NUMBER.

I am getting spam calls after switching to iPhone and every time phone no. series get changed. some examples are 546736, 546734, 5330011826, 5330011743......how can I get rid of them? I have enabled DND but no luck.

I get calls from numbers I've already blocked. When I block the number that calls it says they are already on the block list like wtf...

What if they know what state and city I live in it’s cause like my number

I don't know why, but when I get a spam call/ unknown call, I look at their area code and put it in Google to see where it is from lol.

What about changing your number could that help some

Hiya is the best app for these kinds of things its automatically there for s8 and s9 in the caller settings

Verge videos are so C L E A N as always

I added everyone I want to take a call from to my favorites list, then turned on do not disturb with the setting to ring thru favorites... I now get 0 spam calls. The only downside is when you are expecting a call from someone whose number you don't know, you have to remember to turn off Do Not Disturb, or it will go to voicemail.

My LG does call blocking without apps

I remember in my old school a number called my mom that said "scam likely" And she answered and it was the school but I didn't believe it was the school because the name was sketchy but luckily she never talked

For me it are unknown callers so cant block them pls help

Wht app should I use

Off ? If you or anyone knows. I call my wife at work. My phone is always on don’t show caller id. It’s a local number I call. But my number always shows up at her work I tried. 82 and *67. Then dial. And even with that being done. My number still shows up on there caller ID at her work. Does anyone know why ???

Yo dude with a teddy fresh sweater in the back ground! Also helpful video thanks for sharing.

Also one way I suspect they get your phone number is through people who install skeptical apps on there phones that needs access to there contacts and call log. For example grandma downloads solitaire from the play store and didn't know why and doesn't care why but allows that app to take advantage of her contacts.

@SuperPussyFinger

6 жыл бұрын

Grandma can go straight to hell.

I did everything possible but then also i get spam calls what should I do?

In France, I do not know why with all the operators I have phone spam except with Free mobile

My number is on the national do not call register, yet for weeks I've been receiving around a dozen calls each day from scammers posing as healthcare providers. 😐

Soon Google Duplex will solve this problem entirely.

@samushunter0048

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Orwa Or make Spam calls themselves.

@ralphlati4078

6 жыл бұрын

The more likely outcome seeing how Google gets all its $$ off of ads.

@Mani-Real-estate

Жыл бұрын

in late 2022, Google announced that it is shutting down Duplex on the Web and any automation features enabled by it

@mascal0047

Жыл бұрын

@@Mani-Real-estate Damn! They always shut down projects that would make them hundreds of millions 🤦🏾‍♂️

You don't even mention that Pixel phones do this natively in the UI, even though the thumbnail for this video shows a pixel with the red spam call screen active?

I think you should mention the negative sides of trucaller and those type of apps where they have your name and number linked and it's basically public information

Thank you

I rarely get calls so I just didn't set up my voicemail. I rarely get spam calls now that they realized they can't leave any spam messages on my voicemail and they instantly get denied if their number isn't in my address book. I get a spam call maybe once every few days. Definitely not a technique most people can use but works great for me.

Android has an inbuilt spam filter. Every spam call I get shows up as spam or marketing with the name of the person/company so I just disconnect and put it on block list. 1 years since the nougat update I haven't answered any spam call.

@ralphlati4078

6 жыл бұрын

How can you be sure Google's only filtering the spam calls and not calls they hope you won't answer? After all they run a business on ad revenue. Maybe some poor sap trusted the company with his company's number on Adsense or something and then didn't pay as much as Google hoped he would so they pull this on him until he does. They've done it with search results. EU fined them a crazy huge amount for it so you know they do it. Wouldn't be a huge leap to think they could "Scam Likely" a phone number just like they suppress search results.

@arijit276

6 жыл бұрын

Ralph Lati It works like this, say if you have received a spam call and you report it, once you have done that and several others have done the same google marks it as spam. There is no auto detection, because in this process you maybe the first one to get a spam call and it will show in the whitelist. It has happened with me and even if I report it as spam it wont show as spam to others unless many people have reported the same. There will always be some problems like you said above but I can say that by itself the spam filter works and is very helpful.

Well, two years later and I started getting huge amounts of calls and they just call and don’t say anything

i get at least 1 every day

@engitect

6 жыл бұрын

:(

@shesekllc7412

5 жыл бұрын

Annoying!

@turksandwich7538

5 жыл бұрын

I have received eight today.

@nymiradripp

5 жыл бұрын

@@turksandwich7538 i got 6. i report as spam with the google caller

@turksandwich7538

5 жыл бұрын

@RougeGhost Winning!

I still don’t understand why there can’t be a setting on my phone that I can toggle that doesn’t let any number through that’s not in my contact list. I might miss a few legit calls, but it would be worth it. Basically, I want a beefed up, customizable Do Not Disturb feature on all calls except who in my contact list that also doesn’t block app notifications. Is that too much to ask for?

My most problem is they go to my voicemail and leave messages?

What hoodie was the guy in the back wearing

@ChadMojito

6 жыл бұрын

Teddy Fresh

Wat if its not on a smartphone?

Guess what? I just received a spam call when I was watching this video. Thanks for the advice, nice video as alway.

@X4ZNTP

8 ай бұрын

Bro😭😭😭😭

I just got a call from saudi arabia don't is it real or no

i don't understand the last step, the one about handing information

I keep getting spam calls from different numbers that say the same thing each time

This is great

Why is this series called Workflow?

FYI in the UK there is a service called TPS (Telephone Preference Service) which I think is the UK equivalent of the National Do not Call Registry. www.tpsonline.org.uk Once TPS have your number in their database it effectively prevents anyone from calling your number anymore for spam, marketing etc. Once added it may take 28 days for your number to properly be opted out Some numbers may come through, if they do then you can report the number/company and if TPS receive enough complaints, the company can be pursued and fined quite heavily if found guilty.

i want Block All Senegal 🇸🇳 caller ! how

Much needed

Someone is jumping me and wants to steal my phone number someone help what should I do

Beautiful réalisation ;)

@bobbyguy7160

Жыл бұрын

Hi can you please tell me how to get help

You know this video is helpful considering I get like 3-5 of those calls each day they ring me for like 3 seconds and then hang up

This guy looks like Jimmy Neutron's dad

@DiegoMartinez-qg1yf

5 жыл бұрын

I would laugh at this but this dude is giving good advice so.... ye

@unofficialkam5637

5 жыл бұрын

facts dude lol

@aleccreates96

5 жыл бұрын

Time Bigot xD

@justinw7323

3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the guy from cloudy of a chance of meatballs movie

I don't know if anyone remembers this we remember when theaters used to call and just beg us to do a survey of how many times we go to the movies or I don't know if it was the theater but I used to get those calls until I finally said this isn't really important I have a life and she tried to beg me to stay on but I hanged up

I am so sick about hearing about the Do Not call registry. I'M ALREADY ON THE DO NOT CALL REGISTRY!! It does nothing. I spoke to someone from the FCC. they offer little to no help. I've spoken to my carrier. They offer little to no help. It's gotta be something that can stop them! I am sick of getting these calls.

I literally freak out every time I get an unknown call idk why

@MyBestcookies1

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@streetyboy6910

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@rabiaafridi3973

3 жыл бұрын

Same I got just now so I m searching what to do with this but installing this app I m also scared maybe they stole my data

@wholeNwon

2 жыл бұрын

Buck up. It's only a phone call. Keep life in proportion.

y not just make a app that just excepts calls from your call list?

What if it's a person you met one time and helped them out one time and now they blow up your phone and won't stop.