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I finally enabled NoMoRobo's alternate ring service today after "Affordable Health Care" called three times within an hour, from a different number each time - which makes limited (up to ~50# number) blacklists useless.

I'm on AT&T's FTTH service, and have the landline phone signed up on : http://nomorobo.com/ which they don't charge landlines for ($2/mo on mobile). One ring then silence; wonderful...

Didn't Nomorobo already solve most of this problem?
I use it for free on my residential numbers.
There is a charge for non-residential phones.
Stops 98%of all robocalls, even the ones with spoofed IDs.

https://www.nomorobo.com/ I'm a satisfied user. There's no charge for landlines. Yes I have a landline. It's worked great for me. Even some charities I do actually contribute to can't get through to me because of it. I get multiple robocalls a day and this gets them all. It's been months since the last one got through. Note that they don't support all carriers, but if you have VOIP through somebody (I have AT&T's Uverse) there's a good chance they can fix your problem. As I don't pay for their non-free mobile service I can't comment on that, but the free service on landlines is great.

Try this...it works for me: https://www.nomorobo.com/

I don't work for them, so I don't know how trustworthy they are.

I just checked out that site.
It works only on VOIP.
POTS & cellular not supported.

Try this...it works for me: https://www.nomorobo.com/

I don't work for them, so I don't know how trustworthy they are.

You can do this too with https://www.nomorobo.com/

https://www.nomorobo.com// I've used it for a year or two and almost never get spam calls. It's free.

Nomorobo actually works pretty well and it is already free on land lines. It has totally stopped Cardholder Services from call me. That spammer was driving me crazy having called me over 300 times. After about a hundred calls I started answering some of them and telling the operators what a disgusting company they work working for. Or I'd hit '1' and set the phone next to my radio. I heard that other people give them made up credit card info just to make them waste time. Even after paying a $1M FCC fine Cardholder Services is still calling my land line. https://www.nomorobo.com/

Of now they have started calling my cell phone four or five times a week. And there is no free blocking.

Apparently Nomorobo works by using the billing information in the call to block the call. The billing information can't be spoofed like the caller ID can be. End phones can't access the billing info so the call have to be blocked inside the network.

https://www.nomorobo.com/

It's free and a fantastic service. It uses your phone company's simultaneous ring feature to weed out robo calls.

> Unfortunately, I've never hear a seemingly viable proposal for how to solve the problem.

Artificial intelligence. I'm not joking, this is a job that is ripe for a computer to do the filtering for you.

Today we have blunt intstruments like adblock, ghostery, noscript and requestpolicy. But we also have pseudo-intelligent agents like spam-assassin and NoMoRobo. The inevitable result is an arms-race of ever more sophisticated ad-filtering and more sophisticated evasion methods. But at some point the methods of evasion overwhelm the message of the ad in the first place (who hasn't received one of those uber cryptic emails that, if you even bother, take you 10 minutes to figure out what they are even trying to sell you? It was cryptic enough to get past the spam filter but it had to be useless to do so.) I'd like to see a future where we all have an "ai personal assistant" who filters everything for us. You could wear the equivalent of google-glass but instead of showing you ads, it would overlay billboards and signs with lolcats.