awan wrote:Spam is increasing and to stop it i have a suggestion to create a central spam catching number. the users of free phone line and fongo forward the calls to the spam catching number. this way there will be a common spam arrest number , once the number is stored in the spam db, next time it is automatically forwarded to spam well thus reducing spam traffic. I am sure there is no revenue stream from the spam calls received, howvere there is a loss of revenue with the spam traffic.
awan wrote:Spam is increasing and to stop it i have a suggestion to create a central spam catching number. the users of free phone line and fongo forward the calls to the spam catching number. this way there will be a common spam arrest number , once the number is stored in the spam db, next time it is automatically forwarded to spam well thus reducing spam traffic.
I am sure there is no revenue stream from the spam calls received
Liptonbrisk wrote:That app is no different from tons of others out there, such as Truecaller, Hiya, drupe,etc.--insofar as they are all incapable of stopping scammers from calling you from your friends' outbound CID if they feel like it, for example, or spoofing your outbound phone number and outbound CID name to scam or call other people, including your friends. I'm uncertain that I would want Fongo Mobile to integrate with some in-app purchase product that collects users' contacts/information "voluntarily", regardless of privacy policies (and anonymous personal identifiers) or how much better reverd's may be than truecaller's.
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/commen ... _you_from/
While I am primarily a Freephoneline user, I also use Fongo Mobile.
markon wrote:
And yes no one can protect any phone from spoofed numbers yet, that is correct too.
I believe some companies are working on that
they do not show red and green buttons = user does not need to make a decision to accept the call or not. If it is a reported blacklisted number it is a scam and it is blocked. Period.
5. everybody protects everyone by reporting harassing calls.
Anyway it was working for me perfectly for a year
lustucru wrote:I have been receiving too many scam calls on my Fongo Home number during the last 3 years. The only way I found to stop such calls is a virtual PBX.
My contacts enter a 4 digits extension number that works like a PIN. This can be configured to reject unknow numbers or forward them to an alternate email address not associated with my Fongo account and that I check occasionaly.
Nomorobo does the same thing, provided Nomorobo officially supports the service provider.
markon wrote:Blocked roughly1 out of every 10 calls
Contacted company for a refund, they told me to contact Apple.
markon wrote:My understanding is that Nomorobo covers / deals with North American numbers only and may not help against spam calls in Switzerland, France or Russia... Am I missing something?
Also it might need Internet connection
Nomorobo blocks international spam callers
You may also be missing that I'm in Canada
Freephoneline, Fongo Home Phone, and Fongo Mobile are VoIP services.
We respect your privacy.
Nomorobo was built from the ground up to be consumer friendly. No tricks. No shenanigans.
We don't require access to your contact list (like some other robocall blocking apps) and we never see your incoming or outgoing call logs. If you do give us contact info, we never transmit it to our servers. It's only processed locally on your phone.
markon wrote:Where in Canada?
My only point is that FPL, Fongo Home Phone, and Fongo Mobile only issue Canadian phone numbers.
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