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Originally Posted by stevej37

Just received an email from Xfinity with a new plan to stop them....I hope it works.


"Stronger robocall protection is coming soon
Your Xfinity Voice service already includes Spam Blocker, which helps identify and block unwanted calls, and great news – you’ll soon have even more protection!
Starting later this month, when Spam Blocker detects a potential robocall, an automated voice will ask the caller to enter a two-digit code. If it’s a live person calling and they enter the right code, your phone will ring. If not, the call will go directly to your Xfinity Voicemail."


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T-mobile has a SPAM blocker. They have some way to identify calls as being SPAM. I'm not sure if that's because of a specific signature or specific numbers or a combination of both (that's my guess). If you enable their SPAM blocker, then all of those calls identified as SPAM get blocked. It's still possible to get calls from SPAM/SCAMers, live or robo. I occasionally get a call where the called ID shows up as "SCAM likely". I guess those are calls that they think are bogus, but they aren't 100% positive.
I don't get a ton of bogus calls. I ignore most of the calls that I don't recognize, and those folks almost never leave a VM. On the odd chance that I do answer a call, it's almost always a real person, and it's usually just annoying, (cold calling head hunters, cold calling folks wanting to buy the "vacant" property that we live on in a house, etc...).

Originally Posted by rwest

Two digit code... the robo callers will just enter “69” and get through to 90 percent of young people!

I'm assuming maybe the system will say "enter 34 to proceed" (probably some random number that changes every call) kind of like the Captcha "check the box if you are a real person". But maybe I'm wrong.