Anyone else notice cellphone robocalls are being ID'ed?

[HomerJS]

I've gotten robocalls labeled in the last few days

Scam Likely
Telecom Sys
Discover

Maybe the carriers are trying to help us out?

 

[nakedfrog]

Nothing for me yet.

 

[BurnItDwn]

what phone are you using?

my old phone didnt warn crap (galaxy 5s)
the Pixel 3a I got from FS/FT seems to have some better filtering and warns about 1/2 to 1/3 of the time for spam calls.

 

[snoopy7548]

Nope, though I do recall seeing something about some carriers starting to crack down on robocalling and ID them or something.

 

[highland145]

Nope, though I do recall seeing something about some carriers starting to crack down on robocalling and ID them or something.

FTC, Law Enforcement Partners Announce New Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls

The FTC and its U.S., state, and local law enforcement partners announced a major crackdown on illegal robocalls, including 94 actions targeting operations around the country that are responsible for more than one billion calls.

www.ftc.gov

 

[herm0016]

FTC, Law Enforcement Partners Announce New Crackdown on Illegal Robocalls

The FTC and its U.S., state, and local law enforcement partners announced a major crackdown on illegal robocalls, including 94 actions targeting operations around the country that are responsible for more than one billion calls.

www.ftc.gov

the volume of call went down for about a week. im back up to normal 5 or 6 a day.

 

[BoomerD]

Hiya app.

Pretty accurate.

 

[WhiteNoise]

I get the scam likely label all the time and have been getting that for a couple of years now easily.

 

[HomerJS]

what phone are you using?

my old phone didnt warn crap (galaxy 5s)
the Pixel 3a I got from FS/FT seems to have some better filtering and warns about 1/2 to 1/3 of the time for spam calls.

Iphone 6s+ on T-Mobile

 

[clamum]

I don't get any notifications (I'd assume it depends more on your carrier than phone but that's just a guess). Right now I have the Galaxy S10 and have been on Verizon for 4-5 years. I just add them to the block list but with the number spoofing they do it's not as good as it could be. I still can recognize the spam calls though; normally they spoof cell numbers from the U.P. (any person I normally talk to is in my contacts already).

 

[highland145]

the volume of call went down for about a week. im back up to normal 5 or 6 a day.

Mentioned the other day that I've been getting call backs from people that the scammers called using my #....yeah me.

 

[Luna1968]

nope and i have had a increase in Chinese robocalls.

 

[Luna1968]

Mentioned the other day that I've been getting call backs from people that the scammers called using my #....yeah me.

yea, i had a guy txt me at 2am asking who i was and why i called him.

 

[zinfamous]

for several years now, my screen goes bright red with a stop sign and says "suspected spam" when some robocalls come in.

 

[highland145]

for several years now, my screen goes bright red with a stop sign and says "suspected spam" when some robocalls come in.

I'm not spam, damn it.

 

[Ichinisan]

I've gotten numerous Social Security scammer calls over the last couple days. Then I got a call on my iPhone that said "Spam Risk" immediately before I saw this thread, just as it was posted. I got interrupted and couldn't finish sending this reply for a while...

I am on AT&T with an iPhone running latest iOS (13.1.2).

 

[zinfamous]

I'm not spam, damn it.

Your calls have a greenish/yellow hue on the screen, to remind me to dose up on penicillin before answering (or rejecting, even).

 

[sdifox]

I'm not spam, damn it.

You are not SPAM, you are worse. You are McRib!

 

[nakedfrog]

You are not SPAM, you are worse. You are McRib!

Them's fightin' words.

 

[CZroe]

Got it yesterday.

 

[CZroe]

nope and i have had a increase in Chinese robocalls.

Explanation right here:

 

[zinfamous]

Got it yesterday.

Now I know your mom's name. Prepare to have a new daddy!

 

[ElFenix]

i think it's the phone app. i had a nexus 5 then a pixel 2, so google's phone app.

 

[lxskllr]

If you aren't in my contact list, I don't get your call.

 

[darkswordsman17]

T Mobile has been doing this for us since we switched to them (like over a year ago). My sister who's on AT&T said they recently started doing something similar.

I was on Cricket before and no such thing. This is on an older Android phone (LG V10 using their stock phone app).

Might be a location thing too. This is in Phoenix area. I had T-Mobile prepaid for a bit before and can't recall if it did it there (for some reason I don't think it did). My Mom was on Verizon prepaid for awhile and I don't think it did anything like that. We both noticed the "Scam Likely" ID when we moved to postpaid. So this might also be related to being on the carrier postpaid vs prepaid or MVNO/etc.