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Old 08-03-2022, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 View Post
Not necessarily. I don't have an active spam blocker on my phone, but I still get caller ID screens that say the call is "potential spam". I think this message is generated by the phone provider, not by any spam blocker app. It doesn't block the call, but just alerts you that it may be a spammer. I think that most good spam blocker apps would block the call from ringing at all.
I have an iPhone and it has a feature where it will send every call not in your address book to voicemail. It seems the scammers know this because every time I activate the feature the spam calls almost instantly go away.