The spam call problem that has plagued us for years has never been worse than it is today. People in some regions can get as many as 10 or even more spam calls in a single day, and most list-based subscription services don’t do much to curtail these nuisance calls. Even anti-spam call services from wireless carriers tend to be useless, and paid subscription services from third-parties aren’t much better. It’s simply too difficult for these services to keep up when spam callers are constantly spoofing new numbers.
Thankfully, there’s a new crop of apps out there that take a different approach to spam call blocking. Spam calling services often spoof a number and then auto-dial similar numbers that have the same area code and prefix. So, for example, if your phone number is (212) 555-1234, you likely get spam calls all the time from phone numbers that begin with (212) 555. These new spam call blocking apps allow you to block all calls from numbers that start with your area code and prefix, and one such app just went on sale for free for Memorial Day 2019.
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